明清图书翻译的特征、种类及作用

本文对我国在明末和清代西学东渐过程中的图书翻译进行了梳理和剖析,总结了这一时期西学翻译的历史概况,阐述了东西文化交流中翻译图书的重要作用,以及历史上有识之士对于西学翻译的贡献。     

论Oxymoron 及其翻译法

英语的Oxymoron和Paradox都属于矛盾修辞的范畴,两者与汉语的反衬辞格颇为相似.通过大量的实例对英语语言中矛盾修辞的结构形式、语用功能分析与探讨后,揭示了矛盾修辞手段所表现的字面上似乎矛盾、互相排斥、互相对立的概念,发现其实际中所蕴含着令人深省的深刻哲理的一些语言现象,并对这一辞格的翻译方法进行了探讨.     

浅论科技英语汉译时对专业术语的模糊翻译技巧

科技术语的翻译历来是令许多科技译者头痛而又不得不面对的问题。本文从一个新的视角基于操作层面来探讨英语专业术语的翻译问题，即译者在专业知识缺失而且又得不到其他技术支撑的情况下，如何最大限度地发挥主观能动性做出相对准确的翻译。     

Semantic analysis in XTRA,an English — Chinese machine translation system

This paper concerns the resolution of lexical ambiguity in a machine translation environment. We describe the integration of principles of selection restrictions. Preference Semantics, and intelligent relaxation of constraints in handling lexical ambiguity. The approach differs from many previous MT systems in that it is more powerful than brute force systems, while more realistic than systems that assume a large degree of coded encyclopedia information for full understanding.     

Local Protein Translation and RNA Processing of Synaptic Proteins in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a heritable neurodevelopmental condition associated with impairments in social interaction, communication and repetitive behaviors. While the underlying disease mechanisms remain to be fully elucidated, dysfunction of neuronal plasticity and local translation control have emerged as key points of interest. Translation of mRNAs for critical synaptic proteins are negatively regulated by Fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP), which is lost in the most common single-gene disorder associated with ASD. Numerous studies have shown that mRNA transport, RNA metabolism, and translation of synaptic proteins are important for neuronal health, synaptic plasticity, and learning and memory. Accordingly, dysfunction of these mechanisms may contribute to the abnormal brain function observed in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In this review, we summarize recent studies about local translation and mRNA processing of synaptic proteins and discuss how perturbations of these processes may be related to the pathophysiology of ASD.     

Plumbagin,a Biomolecule with (Anti)Osteoclastic Properties

Plumbagin is a plant-derived naphthoquinone that is widely used in traditional Asian medicine due to its anti-inflammatory and anti-microbial properties. Additionally, plumbagin is cytotoxic for cancer cells due to its ability to trigger reactive oxygen species (ROS) formation and subsequent apoptosis. Since it was reported that plumbagin may inhibit the differentiation of bone resorbing osteoclasts in cancer-related models, we wanted to elucidate whether plumbagin interferes with cytokine-induced osteoclastogenesis. Using C57BL/6 mice, we unexpectedly found that plumbagin treatment enhanced osteoclast formation and that this effect was most pronounced when cells were pre-treated for 24 h with plumbagin before subsequent M-CSF/RANKL stimulation. Plumbagin caused a fast induction of NFATc1 signalling and mTOR-dependent activation of p70S6 kinase which resulted in the initiation of protein translation. In line with this finding, we observed an increase in RANK surface expression after Plumbagin stimulation that enhanced the responsiveness for subsequent RANKL treatment. However, in Balb/c mice and Balb/c-derived RAW264.7 macrophages, these findings could not be corroborated and osteoclastogenesis was inhibited. Our results suggest that the effects of plumbagin depend on the model system used and can therefore either trigger or inhibit osteoclast formation.     

Reciprocal bi-directional generative adversarial network for cross-modal pedestrian re-identification

To improve the accuracy of cross-modal pedestrian re-identification,a reciprocal bi-directional generative adversarial network-based method is proposed.First,we build two generative adversarial networks to generate cross-modal heterogeneous images.Second,an associated loss is designed to pull close the distribution of features in latent space during the image translation between visible and infrared images so as to help the networks generate fake heterogeneous images that have high similarity with the real images.Finally,by concatenating the original and generated heterogeneous pedestrian images into the discriminative feature extraction network,images from different modalities can be unified into a common modality,thus suppressing the cross-modal gap.Representation learning and metric learning are utilized to achieve more discriminative pedestrian features.Comparative experiments are conducted on SYSU-MM01 and RegDB datasets to analyze the accuracy with different loss functions.Compared with other state-of-the-art cross-modal pedestrian re-identification methods,the proposed method achieves a higher accuracy and stronger robustness.     

浅析科技英语中词义的汉译

通过实例阐述了在进行科技英语的汉译时,只有根据原文的专业、行业、技术内容、词的本义和可能的引伸义,结合词的上下文语境,才能准确、恰当地确定英语词义的汉译。文章指出明白通畅、浅显易懂、准确的词义是科技英语汉译成功的基础。     

ATP-Independent Initiation during Cap-Independent Translation of m6A-Modified mRNA

The methylation of adenosine in the N⁶ position (m⁶A) is a widely used modification of eukaryotic mRNAs. Its importance for the regulation of mRNA translation was put forward recently, essentially due to the ability of methylated mRNA to be translated in conditions of inhibited cap-dependent translation initiation, e.g., under stress. However, the peculiarities of translation initiation on m⁶A-modified mRNAs are not fully known. In this study, we used toeprinting and translation in a cell-free system to confirm that m⁶A-modified mRNAs can be translated in conditions of suppressed cap-dependent translation. We show for the first time that m⁶A-modified mRNAs display not only decreased elongation, but also a lower efficiency of translation initiation. Additionally, we report relative resistance of m⁶A-mRNA translation initiation in the absence of ATP and inhibited eIF4A activity. Our novel findings indicate that the scanning of m⁶A-modified leader sequences is performed by a noncanonical mechanism.