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Essay / Responsibilities of a translator - 542
IntroductionNowadays, translation is no longer the job of a single person but requires the collaboration of several participants on the same project. Each team member plays a different role and helps promote the efficiency of a translation task. This project consists of carrying out the translation workflow in an industrial scenario. The group consists of a project manager responsible for the entire process, one or two translators and a terminologist for each language pair. The author is designated as the first translator in the English-Chinese language pair by the project manager. In this project, SDL Trados Studio 2014 provides a complete translation environment so that the team can work collaboratively and access shared resources such as project files, centralized terminology and relevant translation memories. Responsibilities as a translatorThe translator primarily produces an initial output of the document. In this project, the author is responsible for translating the "Quilting" section of the source file, which is approximately 400 words, as directed by the project manager. Based on...