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English to Chinese: ATOPIC ECZEMA General field: Medical Detailed field: Medical: Health Care
Source text - English ATOPIC ECZEMA
What are the aims of this leaflet?
This leaflet has been written to help you understand more about atopic eczema (AE) which is also known as atopic dermatitis (AD). The words eczema and dermatitis mean the same thing, and so atopic eczema is the same condition as atopic dermatitis. For simplicity we shall use atopic eczema or AE in this leaflet. It tells you what it is, what causes it, how it can be treated, and where you can find out more about it.
What is atopic eczema?
Atopic eczema is a very common skin condition due to skin inflammation. It may start at any age but the onset is often in childhood. 1 in every 5 children in the UK is affected by eczema at some stage. It may also start later in life in people who did not have AE as a child. The term ‘atopic’ is used to describe a group of conditions, which include asthma, eczema and hay-fever and food allergy. These conditions are all linked by an increased activity of the allergy side of the body’s immune system. ‘Eczema’ is a term which comes from the Greek word ‘to boil’ and is used to describe red, dry, itchy skin which can sometimes become weeping, blistered, crusted, scaling and thickened.
What causes atopic eczema?
Atopic eczema is a complex condition and a number of factors appear important for its development including patient susceptibility and environmental factors. Patients typically have alterations in their skin barrier, and overly reactive inflammatory and allergy responses. Environmental factors include contact with soaps, detergents and any other chemicals applied to the skin, exposure to allergens, and infection with certain bacteria and viruses. A tendency to atopic conditions often runs in families (see below) and is part of your genes. An alteration in a gene that is important in maintaining a healthy skin barrier has been closely linked to the development of eczema. This makes the skin of patients with eczema much more susceptible to infection and allows irritating substances/particles to enter the skin, causing itching and inflammation. AE cannot be caught from somebody else.
Is atopic eczema hereditary?
Yes. Atopic eczema tends to run in families. If one or both parents have eczema it is more likely that their children will develop it too. Approximately one third of children with AE will also develop asthma and/or hay fever. AE affects both males and females equally.
What are the symptoms of atopic eczema?
The main symptom is itch. Scratching in response to itch may cause many of the changes seen on the skin. Itch can be severe enough to interfere with sleep, causing tiredness and irritability. Typically AE goes through phases of being severe, then less severe, and then gets worse again. Sometimes a flare up can be due to the reasons outlined below, but often no cause can be identified.
What does atopic eczema look like?
Atopic eczema can affect any part of the skin, including the face, but the areas that are most commonly affected are the creases in the joints at the elbows and knees, as well as the wrists and neck (called a flexural pattern). Other common appearances of AE include coin-sized areas of inflammation on the limbs (a discoid pattern), and numerous small bumps that coincide with the hair follicles (a follicular pattern). Affected skin is usually red and dry, and scratch marks (accompanied by bleeding) are common. When AE is very active, it may become moist and weep fluid (during a ‘flare-up’) and small water blisters may develop especially on the hands and feet. In areas that are repeatedly scratched, the skin may thicken (a process known as lichenification), and this may cause the skin to itch more. Sometimes affected areas of the skin may become darker or lighter in colour than the surrounding, unaffected skin.
How is atopic eczema diagnosed?
The features of AE are usually easily recognised by health visitors, practice nurses and doctors, when they assess the skin. Blood tests and skin tests are usually not necessary. Occasionally the skin may need to be swabbed (by rubbing a sterile cotton bud on it) to check for bacterial or viral infections.
What makes atopic eczema flare-up?
Many factors in a person’s environment can make AE worse; these include heat, dust, woollen clothing, pets and irritants such as soaps, detergents and other chemicals.
English to Chinese: Wriggle Teachers Pack General field: Marketing Detailed field: Education / Pedagogy
Source text - English P. 2
What can you see in the exhibition?
Explore the wonderful world of worms – from fossils to fantasy, from food to spectacular beauty, and the scary ones too! See life from a worm’s point of view and find out what museum scientists do to extend our knowledge of these fascinating animals. There are 6 displays:
1. The Wriggloo
2. Awesome Worms
3. Measuring Worms
4. Diversity of Worms
5. From Fossils to Fantasy
6. Museum Science
Tip for Teachers
Split your class into groups to explore each of the sections. The gallery has one entrance and exit, so the class can remain in the one area. Use the Activity Resource Sheets at the end of this pack to help focus the pupils, after they have had chance to explore.
1.The Wriggloo
The Wriggloo is a giant walk-in earthworm den. Go inside the worm’s habitat, listen to the sound of the underground, see live wriggly worms, and meet the creatures that share their home. - Find out who eats who as you look for fox, badger, mole, bugs and beasties. - Look closely at how worms move through soil, and how they are adapted for life underground. - Discover why worms are so important for our gardens. - The props bucket will provide facts and things to do to help you explore the Wriggloo.
P. 3
Things to do…
As pupils explore the Wriggloo they can fill in the ‘Food Chains’ resource with their own food chain. The ‘Who Eats Who?’ information panel will provide them with help and information. 2
.Awesome worms Here you can explore some of the amazing adaptations worms have to survive. Find out about Bone Eating Snot Flower worms, Ice worms, Copycat worms and Fireworms, as well as worms that bite, have venom and attack.
Things to do… - Look very closely at the live hermit crabs. Can you see the fan worms on their shells? - Compare the habitats in the 3 floor boxes. Each floor box has a different worm habitat:
• Ragworm habitat
• Lugworm habitat
• Earthworm habitat
Consider the differences in the habitats and how the worms might adapt to live there. - How are they adapted to feed in their habitat? What do they eat? And what eats them? - Make your own worm fact cards, using the activity sheet in the gallery. Once you have designed them, use your cards to play top trumps!
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3. Measuring worms
This display is all about the size of worms. Did you know that worms can range from just a few millimetres to several metres? Compare yourself to the size of different worms. Are you as tall as a giant Gippsland Earthworm? There are 3 interactives in this area - How many worms high are you? - The worm spaghetti game. - The rope ‘worm’ How many worms high are you? Here you can use our non-standard worm measures to measure your height. Pupils can work in 2s or 3s to measure their height in worms. Place the worm magnets top to tail on the measuring wall until they are the same height as you. Are you 4 earthworms and 1 lugworm tall, or 3 lugworms tall? Compare to your friend or teacher. You could even add all the pupil worms together to calculate your class ‘worm height’? Why not take photos to record your heights? To extend the activity, you could play adding and subtracting games using the worm magnets or make table or bar chart of ‘worms’ according to your heights.
Worm spaghetti
Measuring worms is tricky. They are usually coiled up and you have to unravel them to measure accurately. Take a look at the plate of worm spaghetti. Estimate how long you think each worm is. Measure to see if you were right. Don’t forget to put the spaghetti back on the plate! The rope worm Follow the rope ‘worm’ to find the length of the longest worm in the world. Can you calculate how many pupils-long the worm is?
P. 5
- You could do this by adding together the height of all the pupils in the class
– is your class the same length, bigger or smaller?
- Why not demonstrate this in a class assembly back in your school hall?
4.Diversity of Worms
There are over 9000 different types of worm on our planet. This display shows you a snapshot of their diversity. To make things even more confusing, there are some animals (and even some plants) that could easily be mistaken for worms. Some even have the word worm in their name!
Chinese to English: 永恒的怀念 General field: Art/Literary Detailed field: Poetry & Literature
Source text - Chinese 《永恒的懐念》 夏浓
1942年2月15日，南侵马来半岛的日夲军队终于攻占了新加坡。
我的家原来在南马西海岸边。当战火越烧越近的时候，家搬到远离市镇和公路的一片黄梨芭去，在一间没有人住的、孤零零的「沙厘屋」暂住避难。
有一天清晨，祖母忽然记起这一天正是近邻南生老姥的生日，就备了一只鸡、12粒鸡蛋和几个黄梨，叫我代她去给南生老姥拜寿。
到了南生老姥的家门口，我连喊了几声，都没有回应，便直闯进门去。
突然，我呆住了──客厅泥地上横陈着两具尸体。天啊！南生老姥和她的儿子被杀死了──必定是日本人干的。一个可怕的意识闪过了脑际：大屠杀终究开始了！唰的一下，我全身从头冷到脚，篮子从我手里滑到地上，鸡惊叫着，蛋打了，黄梨摔了一地。我不知道自己惊呆了多久，才叫喊起来： 「老姥，老姥．．．．」可是，眼前的血肉一动也不动。我感到恐怖，感到危险，于是，回身冲出了南生老姥的家──我得回家去报讯！才冲出门口，一抬头，眼前站着一队满脸胡子、凶神恶煞似的日本兵，拦住我的去路。一个日本兵喊了声甚么，突然端着刺刀向我扑过来．．．．．
扑过来的日本兵突然被树根绊了脚，卜的一声扑倒在我的面前。一种求生的本能，使我全身爆发了一股力量来利用这突然出现的机会，我倏地往旁边一蹿，钻进胶林下的小橡胶树丛中去，一个劲地往前跑。日本兵叽哩呱啦叫喊着从背后追来。枪声响了，两响，也许三响，子弹尖啸着好像贴着头皮飞过。我跑着，突然脚下一踩空，卜通一声，跌进了横在面前的一条水沟。爬上水沟，我忽然清醒了：前面就是全家避难的黄梨芭，我不能把日本兵往家里带！背后小树丛沙沙地响，日本兵追近来了。我转身一拐，又朝胶林深处飞奔。
也不知跑了多远，我跑出胶林，进入一片椰子园。一家马来人高脚房子出现在眼前。我已经精疲力尽了，不管三七二十一，跑上台阶，撞进门去。厅上有个和我差不多一样大的马来少年站了起来，吃惊地盯着我。我定睛一看，浑身的血都冷了。是他，竟是他，阿末，我的「仇敌」．．．．．．
Translation - English Eternal Remembrance by Xia Nong
February 15th, 1942. Singapore had finally fallen into the hands of the Japanese army, which had invaded the Malay peninsula from the north.
My family and I used to live on the west coast of South Malaya. But as the flames of war burned closer, my family took refuge in an uninhabited, solitary metal hut hidden among a pineapple field, which was far away from the towns and main roads.
One day, early in the morning, my grandmother suddenly remembered that it was the birthday of our neighbour, dear old Mrs. Nan. She prepared a live chicken, twelve eggs and some pineapples. I was asked to present the gifts and send birthday wishes on her behalf.
Arriving at the door of Mrs. Nan’s home, I knocked on it. There was no reply so I called out several times, before deciding to barge in.
I stood frozen as the following sight welcomed me – two lifeless bodies laid across the mud floor of the living room. Oh my god! Mrs. Nan and her son had been killed. It must have been the Japanese! A terrifying thought crossed my mind: the massacre has already started! A chill swept across my entire body from head to toe. The basket that I was holding slipped from my grasp and fell. The chicken squawked in fright, the eggs crashed, the pineapples were smashed all over the floor. After what seemed like an eternity, I recovered from the shock and called out weakly: “Mrs. Nan? Mrs. Nan…?” Still, the pile of flesh and blood stayed motionless. I felt fear; I sensed danger. Turning around, I rushed out of the hut. I have to go back to warn my family! As I stepped outside and looked up, a squadron of bearded evil-looking Japanese soldiers stood before me, blocking my path. One of them shouted something I could not understand, then brandished his bayonet before charging right towards me…
All of a sudden, the charging Japanese soldier tripped over a root and toppled to the ground just in front of me. The instinct to survive filled my whole body with a burst of adrenaline, prompting me to use this unexpected opportunity to my advantage. I swiftly leapt to the side, dashed into a clump of small trees at a rubber plantation and ran as fast as I could, with the Japanese gibbering and chasing behind me. One, two, maybe even three gunshots rang as bullets screamed over me, almost scraping the top of my head. I kept running when I suddenly stepped into nothing. I stumbled into a ditch that had stretched in front of me. Climbing out of the ditch, I realized with horror that I had almost made a grave mistake: Just ahead lay the pineapple field in which my family resided, I could not bring the Japanese there! The thicket behind me rustled, alerting me to the approaching Japanese. I changed direction and went off deep into the rubber plantation again.
God knows how long I ran, until I darted out of the rubber plantation and arrived into a coconut farm. There was a Malay stilt house in front of me. Exhausted and drained, neither thinking coherently nor caring about any consequences, I bolted up the wooden staircase and hurled myself into the door. In the hall there was a Malay teenager, who stared at me in surprise. He seemed to be about my age. I glanced towards him and my blood went cold. It’s him, of all people, it’s Ahmad, my “nemesis” …
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Bachelor's degree - University of Leicester
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Years of experience: 7. Registered at ProZ.com: Jan 2019.
Translation Word Count: 150,000+ // Translation Speed: 1000w/h
Interpreting Experience: 16th China International SME Fair / Personal Interpreter in Guangzhou Antique Museum
Overseas Experience: Malaysia (17y), Singapore (3y), UK (3y), Spain (6m), Mexico (5m), China (4m). Traveled to 45+ countries over Asia, Europe, Australia, and North and South America.
Highlights: CH-EN Bilingual + SP, Cultural Awareness, Efficient, Responsible.
