2017年1月10日

1 完成昨天的英语翻译作业

昨天,给自己布置了一个作业那就是翻译Silcon Valley 这部剧的网站中Richard的个人人资料,并且模仿着小道消息博主进行一次人物的点评[1]

首先,把网站的介绍信息翻译过来,当做是一个练习,不要纠结,一口气翻译完,修改的工作留给后期,不求完美。

原文:
Richard Hendricks CEO
Richard is the CEO (Chief Executive Officer) of Pied Piper, a company he founded and then was fired from. Isn’t that weird? Although he left four credits short of graduation, he attended Stanford, where none of his computer science classes mentioned the possibility of having an innovative software firm you created ripped from you by soulless bean counters.
Hailing from Tulsa, Richard created Pied Piper around an algorithm he came up with himself, built the company with his sweat and that of a team he hand-picked, and sure, he made some mistakes at first, who wouldn’t, but because of these minor missteps, such as deleting several terabytes of porn (Didn’t porn used to be BAD?), to some it seemed a good idea to remove him from his post. So he was fired. And coaxed into taking a lesser role at his own company. In a very humiliating manner. And he was replaced by a jowly dinosaur of a “professional CEO” who enjoys watching horses have sex, and who decided to turn the company into fucking Radio Shack. That really happened. Yes. Fortunately, the Powers That Be came to their senses, and gave him his job back. And he’s really, really, oh so terribly grateful for that, and not bitter at all.
In his spare time, Richard removes knives from his back. And when it comes to his business, in the words of the "CSI" theme song, he is not likely to be fooled again, ever.

译文:
姓名:Richard Hendricks 职位:CEO
Richard 是Pied Piper公司的的首席执行官(CEO),Pied Piper公司由他创立,于此同时,他也被这家公司开除过,这是不是很奇怪呢?他就读过斯坦福大学, 主修计算机科学,不过由于还有四个学分没有修完,他未能毕业。当然,斯坦福的课堂从未想学生传授这样的信息——你可以建立一个创新软件公司。
来自于塔尔萨(美国俄克拉菏马州东北部城市)的Richard基于自己提出的算法创建了Pied Piper,他与一群优秀的小伙伴创建了这家公司。起初,他犯了一些错误,可是有谁没有犯过错误呢?由于他的一些失误,比如,他们删掉了一个视频网站几个T的黄色视频(黄色视频难道不是坏的吗?),因为这件事情,他被免去了CEO的职位。取而代之的是,一个“专业的CEO”,这位CEO希望看赛马,这位先生要把Pied Piper打造为一个令人讨厌的Radio Shack 公司,而这件事情确实发生了。幸运的是,那个项目失败了,而Richard最后成为了公司的CEO,他成长进步了,不再被他人随意愚弄。

谢天谢地,翻译了开半个小时了,把这个任务完成了,翻译的并不好,不过,这只是开始,明天继续翻译JARED (DONALD) DUNN Head of Business Development的个人资料。

我对Richard的基本印象是,不善于打交道的程序员,语言表达能力很差,这是他的缺点。促使他成功的优点是,他的创新能力强,对编程有着较高的自我要求,为了实现自己的想法,可以通宵写代码,完全可以称得上是一位有些的专业编程专业人员。他身上最让我佩服的地方在于,他非常的诚实,在与Hooli打官司的时候,即便在情势对他极其不利的情况下,他还是诚实的回答问题,不欺骗。在看剧的时候,这个角色的代入感非常强,从第一季到第三季,能够明确感觉到Richard在成长,面对决策时,有自己的思考和判断,哪怕伤及合伙人的关系,他也要坚持自己正确的主张。

2 专业能力学习

工作,最好的状态就是,不断地迎接挑战,可以去探究性的工作学习。

EGR不是我负责的内容,但是,我非常渴望把这个技术搞明白,对零件的细节设计开始思考。

今明天,我花费了一个半小时的时间,进行相关资料的学习,进一步发现自己对这项技术理解的偏差,之前的自己是无知的,而且,我发现,不无知更可怕的一种情况是,自认为自己知道,可实际上,你的理解有误。在今天的再次复习过程当中,我就意识到自己的理解存在问题,似乎,身边其他的同事也出现了类似的误解。

仔细一想,学习这件事情没有做好,确实挺恐怖了,会让自己一直生活在一个错误的世界里面而不自知。


  1. 小道消息公众号的文章[硅谷:一部美剧] ↩

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