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科技英语“机器翻译”基础：谷歌翻译（Google translate）怎么样？
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客户问我是否愿意润色“学生翻译的文章”。我老老实实地说：不愿意。为什么？我担心翻译的质量不够好。
看过我的博客的你，知道我常常发“双语”博客。我只是想分享科普知识，没有时间追求“信、达、雅”。对我来说，谷歌翻译（Google translate；GT）不错。它翻译的文章，有错；但是，大概只有10%的“错”。我快速读一遍，纠错后，就完成任务了。
根据自己的经验，我建议客户“用谷歌翻译”；一段中文，接一段英文。这样，我“润色”时，需要参考原文就“抬一下头”（看看中文）。
事实上，GT在翻译医学（我翻译的科普，一般都是医学、健康知识）文章时，表现的确不错。但是，翻译“地学”文章时，有点“脑残”。
海气关系的季节变化和时间—空间尺度依赖性http://www.iapjournals.ac.cn/dqkx/cn/article/doi/10.3878/j.issn.1006-9895.2310.23303本文根据近年来对于表面湍流热通量和海表面温度变化关系的分析回顾了海气关系的季节变化和时间—空间尺度依赖性。内容包括表面湍流热通量和海表面温度变化关系的表征方法、区域变化、季节变化和随时间、空间尺度的变化，以及表面风速和海气湿度差对表面潜热通量和海表面温度变化关系的相对贡献。表面湍流热通量和海表面温度变化关系在中纬度海洋锋区和副热带涡旋区显著不同。在中纬度海洋锋区，海洋过程对海表面温度变化的贡献占主导地位，因而表现为海洋强迫作用，并且冬季比夏季更大。在副热带涡旋区，表面湍流热通量对海表面温度变化的作用更为显著，因而表现为大气强迫作用，并且夏季比冬季更为明显。在阿拉伯海西部地区，夏季海洋过程对海表面温度变化影响明显，表现出海洋强迫作用，而冬季以表面湍流热通量影响为主，表现为大气强迫情况。在孟加拉湾、南中国海和菲律宾海地区，无论冬夏季都表现为大气强迫作用。在中纬度海洋锋区冬季和阿拉伯海西部地区夏季，海洋强迫随时间尺度增长而增强，而在其它地区和季节，存在由较短时间尺度的大气强迫为主向较长时间尺度的海洋强迫变得重要的转换，转换的时间尺度大约在20～40天。在中纬度海洋锋区，海洋强迫作用随空间尺度增大而减弱，并向大气强迫情况转换，转换的空间尺度夏季比冬季小。一般而言，大气强迫作用随空间尺度增大而增强。下面，我们来看看GT的翻译。
Yellow means "questionable."
黄色：有“问题”。
Seasonal changes and time-space scale dependence of air-sea relationships This paper reviews the seasonal changes and time-space scale dependence of the air-sea relationship based on recent analyzes of the relationship between surface turbulent heat flux and sea surface temperature changes. The content includes the characterization method of the relationship between surface turbulent heat flux and sea surface temperature changes, regional changes, seasonal changes and changes with time and spatial scale, as well as the relationship between surface wind speed and air-sea humidity difference on surface latent heat flux and sea surface temperature changes. relative contribution. The relationship between surface turbulent heat flux and sea surface temperature changes is significantly different in mid-latitude ocean frontal regions and subtropical eddy regions. 【译者注：前面的句子需要润色。】In the mid-latitude ocean frontal zone, the contribution of oceanic processes to sea surface temperature changes dominates, thus manifesting as ocean forcing, and is greater in winter than in summer. In the subtropical vortex region, the effect of surface turbulent heat flux on sea surface temperature changes is more significant, thus manifesting as atmospheric forcing, and is more obvious in summer than in winter. In the western Arabian Sea, oceanic processes have a significant impact on sea surface temperature changes in summer, showing ocean forcing, while in winter the main influence is surface turbulent heat flux, showing atmospheric forcing. In the Bay of Bengal, South China Sea and Philippine Sea, atmospheric forcing occurs in both winter and summer. In winter in the mid-latitude oceanic frontal region and in summer in the western Arabian Sea, oceanic forcing increases with time scale. In other regions and seasons, there is a change from atmospheric forcing on shorter time scales to oceanic forcing on longer time scales. For important conversions, the time scale for conversion is approximately 20 to 40 days. In the mid-latitude ocean front region, the oceanic forcing weakens as the spatial scale increases, and transitions to atmospheric forcing. The converted spatial scale is smaller in summer than in winter. Generally speaking, atmospheric forcing increases as the spatial scale increases.
这些错，的确让我失望。所以，我以后不会再告诉客户用GT翻译。至少，现在的GT翻译地学文章还不及格。
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