Investment

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Investment Profits

• Unit Fourteen

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Unit Objectives

• After studying this unit, you should
• understand the nature and functions of fuzzy
  expressions.
• find ways to improve your interpreting skills and
  performance.
• master the basic words and expressions about
  investment and profits.
• know some cultural background knowledge about
  investment and profits.

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Preparing --Warm-up Exercises

• You are going to hear a speech followed by an
  interpreters interpretation. Compare the
  interpretation with the original text and give
  your comments on the interpreters performance.

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Preparing --Skills
Presentation

• Fuzzy Interpretation I
• Fuzziness a Nature of Human Language
• Fuzziness a Communication Facilitator
• Give the right amount of information
• Withhold certain information
• Explain the new concepts
• Fill in lexical gaps
• Protect the speakers
• Interpreting an Approximation Process

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Preparing --Phrases
Interpreting

• English to Chinese
• promote commerce
• promote level of profitableness
• optional capital
• direct foreign investment and other investment
• international leasing
• compensation trade
• international consortiums
• FDI (Foreign Direct Investment)
• foreign investment destination
• the influx of foreign investment

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Preparing --Phrases
Interpreting

• B. Chinese to English
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• to attract foreign investment
• domestic investment
• domestic asset
• joint investment
• joint capital
• overseas investment
• utilization and control of foreign capital
• investment environment
• Comparatively Prosperous
• Anti-dumping

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Preparing --Sentences
Interpreting

• English to Chinese
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• B. Chinese to English
• We undertook 19 projects that carried a total
  amount of RMB 1150 million, and we signed new
  contracts amounting to RMB 1.69 billion yuan.
• Strengthen the trade cooperation and better
  customs services to exporters.
• China took nine measures to lure investment in
  the western region.
• We will attract more foreign investment through
  our functional advantages as well as continue to
  allow preferential terms. For this purpose, we
  shall adopt more effective measures and build up
  more favorable soft environment where all
  services will be civilized, efficient, clean,
  legalized, and internationally acceptable.
• A business will certainly achieve great successes
  in the world market if it is indeed well managed,
  having amble resources, and ready to adopt itself
  to changes.

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Performing --Decoding
(Note-taking)
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Performing --Memorizing
(Story-retelling)

• Listen to the recordings of Text A again. Try to
  catch more details and improve your notes. Then
  retell the speech in your own words with the help
  of your notes.

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Performing --Encoding (Message Reconstructing)

• The China International Fair for Investment and
  Trade is the only investment promotion activity
  in China that aims at absorbing direct foreign
  investment. It is also the largest economic and
  trade activity in China engaged mainly in
  transactions of products made by foreign-funded
  enterprises. The fair has attracted numerous
  domestic and overseas political VIPs,
  entrepreneurs and distributors, as well as
  delegation from member provinces, municipalities,
  and autonomous regions. Participants come to
  display their products, and to seek economic
  cooperation and business partners.

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Performing --Coordinating (Field
Interpreting)

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1. attract foreign capital
2. direct foreign investment
3. international leasing
4. compensation trade
5. processing and assembling.
6. Sino-foreign joint venture
7. basic state policy
8. processing industry
9. export-oriented enterprises,
10. manufacturing,
11. real estate
12. infrastructure construction
13. international consortiums
14. transnational companies
15. foreign investment destination country
16. irreversible trend

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Packaging --Interpreting and
Assessment

1. Fortune Global Forum
2. headquarter
3. worlds top 500 conglomerates
4. Business tycoons
5. research and development bases
6. powerhouse of Chinas economy
7. CEO
8. the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China

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Packaging --Interpreting and Assessment
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Packaging -- Feedback and
Comments
Aims of this Unit Students Feedback
Teachers Comments The candidate has met
the standard, knowledge and skill
requirements. Candidates ___________________
Date ___________________ Assessor
____________________ Date
___________________
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Assignment --Simulation
Exercises
Role-play the following situations with your
partners, acting as the Chinese speaker, English
speaker and the interpreter respectively. One
group will be invited to perform in class.
Situation A One of the students plays the role of
a foreign businessman who wants to make
investment in Shenzhen, China. Another students
tries to be the person who works in the Foreign
Investment Administration of Chinas Ministry of
Commerce(????????????). Make a dialogue to each
other. The third student tries to be their
interpreter.
Situation B One of you tries to find a speech
about the policy of investment in China on
internet, then make a speech about the investment
policy in China. another student tries to be the
interpreter.
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Points to Remember

• Fuzziness refers to the indeterminacy involved in
  the analysis of a linguistic unit or pattern.
• Human languages are full of fuzzy expressions.
  Fuzziness is a nature of the human language.
• Fuzzy language sometimes functions as a
  communication facilitator and enhances
  communication.
• Interpreting is actually an approximation
  process.