导游翻译 第二讲 |
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Ⅰ．Fifteen Ps
To be a qualified Guide, he or she must try hard to remember the following
fifteen words, with P as their initial letters, which embody some necessary
but important and concrete requirements for a Guide.
1．Politics
In dealing with foreign affairs, a Guide must have a strong sense of national
self-respect and integrity. He or she must stick to the Party's four cardinal
principles-Communist Party Leadership, Socialist Road, People's Democratic
Dictatorship and Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought and in work he or
she must have a high sense of political responsibility as his or her job
has profound political significance. A Guide must always remember that
he or she represents the Chinese people, doing interpreting and introducing
our country to foreign visitors.
2．Practice
a qualified Guide is not born but made, so a Guide should try to remember
the following proverbs and put them into practice. “For good work, you
need sharp tools”,“Practice makes perfect”,“use makes perfect”,and “Fluency
comes from practice”. A greenhorn Guide should be bold in practice and
learn from the old and experienced Guides and try to soak up their experiences
like a sponge in order to improve his or her own interpreting work.
3．Preparation
A Guide should always remember that preparedness averts, while appeasement
abets peril and “walk softly and carry a big stick”. Wherever a Guide travels
with foreign tourists or whoever a Guide accompanies, he or she has to
ask himself or herself whether he or she has got everything ready for the
trip and all the activities. Careful and meticulous preparation, both academically
and materially, is always appreciated by the Travel Agency and foreign
visitors.
4．Perseverance
Perseverance means victory. Working as a Guide, he or she is sure to encounter
many hardship sand difficulties besides enjoying beautiful scenery with
foreign visitors. No pains, no gains. Wisdom domes out of struggling with
difficulties. Years of working experiences bring wisdom. A Guide will surely
win the final victory and be praised as a qualified Guide with the spirit
of perseverance.
5．Progress
“Forward ever, backward never”. Whenever something crops up, the Guide
must be calm, trying every means possible to have the problem controlled
and solved. If it is beyond his ability or out of his power, the Guide
has to ask his or her superiors for help. The Guide should always aim high,
never satisfied with his or her work but trying hard to do his or her work
in a satisfactory way. A sense of progress is indispensible to a qualified
Guide-interpreter.
6．Proficiency
An experienced Guide, after years of accompanying foreign visitors, is
very familiar with the ins and outs of a trip, therefore, he or she is
an expert in anticipating, and then trying to solve problems. In order
to achieve proficiency in his or her work, the Guide has to be very careful
about his or her work, making preparations before the trip and keeping
a memo after the trip, in which various kinds of valuable materials and
new expressions learned from the foreigners are kept. Therefore, the process
of achieving proficiency is an accumulation process. It takes pains for
the Guide to do so, as there is no royal road to learning.
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