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Translation
Volume: 180 days
Completed: Jan 2007
Languages:
Chinese to English | translation for a local magazine to promote Guangzhou city
Business/Commerce (general), Finance (general), Management | No comment. |
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| | | Sample translations submitted: 3| English to Chinese: Financial | Source text - English
Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc. is moving to collect about $230 million in controversial contingent commissions owed by insurers and will put the money toward a settlement with the New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.
Spitzer last month charged the world's No. 1 insurance broker with price rigging, which he said sprang directly from contingent commissions paid to Marsh by insurers.
Marsh's new Chief Executive Michael Cherkasky, who took over from Jeffrey Greenberg last week, has said clearing up legal issues with Spitzer was his priority, and a settlement is expected over the coming weeks.
Marsh said Monday it will put the collected fees -- which it estimated to be about $230 million -- into a segregated account to be used for any restitution agreement it reaches with Spitzer.
The broker said last week it would permanently drop contingent commissions -- which it calls "market services agreements " -- by the beginning of next year, while it will disclose all commissions and fees to clients.
Contingent compensation fees, which Spitzer says Marsh forced on insurers under the threat of cutting premiums placed with them, totaled $845 million last year, or 7 percent of Marsh's $11.6 billion in revenue.
Spitzer accused New York-based Marsh in an Oct. 14 lawsuit of rigging bids and colluding with American International Group Inc. and other insurers to fix prices.
MMC is a global professional services firm with annual revenues exceeding $11 billion. It is the parent company of Marsh Inc., the world's leading risk and insurance services firm; Putnam Investments, one of the largest investment management companies in the United States; and Mercer Inc., a major global provider of consulting services. More than 63,000 employees provide analysis, advice, and transactional capabilities to clients in over 100 countries. Its stock (ticker symbol: MMC) is listed on the New York, Chicago, Pacific, and London stock exchanges. MMC's website address is www.mmc.com.
| Translation - Chinese
威达信公司正准备提取保险商所拥有的有争议的应急佣金中的约2.3亿美元, 并将此款项用于解决与纽约首席检察官伊利亚特•斯皮特兹（Eliot Spitzer）的争端。
斯皮特兹上月以价格操纵起诉世界第一大保险经纪（威达信公司）。他说这种价格操纵直接来自保险商付给达信的应急佣金。
达信上周从杰夫里格林伯格接手的新首席执行官米高•谢尔卡斯基（Michael Cherkasky）说，和斯皮特兹澄清这些法律问题是他所要做的首要工作，几周内可望有解决的方法。
达信说它周一将会将这些提取费（据其估计约为2.3亿美元）放进一个独立帐户，以供与斯皮特兹达成的任何归还协议之用。
达信上周说它明年初将永久放弃应急佣金（达信称之为市场服务约定），同时公布提供给客户的所有佣金和费用。
斯皮特兹所说的达信威胁要减少付给保险商保险费的强加给保险商的应急补偿费，去年金额达到8.45亿美金, 占达信收入116亿美金的7%。
在10月14日的诉讼中，斯皮特兹指责总部在纽约的达信操纵出价，并与美国国际集团及其它保险商串通固定价格。
威达信公司是一家全球性的专业服务公司，年收入超过110亿美金。威达信公司是全球领先的风险和保险服务公司达信公司的母公司，同时也是美国最大投资管理公司之一百能投资公司和全球顾问服务主要提供商美世公司的母公司。威达信在100多个国家有超过63000名雇员，给客户提供分析，咨询和交易服务。MCC的股票（代号为：MCC）在纽约，芝加哥，太平洋和伦敦股票交易所上市。MCC的网址是www.mcc.com。
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| | English to Chinese: marketing | Source text - English
The Future of Building is Green Building
From energy and water savings to local and healthy materials, the tenets of green building are being introduced in more and more projects, all over the world. As cities become ever more densely populated and as resources become more scarce and expensive, it is clear that the way we make our buildings must change. Green building goals are becoming mandated by agencies and jurisdictions and even required by building codes – these moves by public entities are accelerating the pace of change. In addition to the public sector, the market itself is demanding green building practices from private developers who are finding that green building certification is a clear and strategic way to differentiate their product in a competitive market. These changes are not relegated to America or the West, they are happening everywhere – from new mandatory green building rating systems in China and Abu Dhabi, the movement around the world is clear. Given all of this, it is important to know what is meant by green building and how various definitions affect each project.
What is a Green or High Performance Building?
Green building is the practice of increasing the efficiency with which buildings use resources — energy, water and materials — while reducing building impacts on human health and the environment, through better and smarter site placement, building design and massing, construction techniques, building operations & maintenance, and waste reduction and removal — all affect the complete building life cycle and the costs that owners must manage.
As noted above in Figure 1, there is a spectrum of green buildings, showing that as a building’s performance increases the building’s ecological impact is reduced – this progression is indicated moving from left to right in the diagram.
Beginning at the left side, typical code-compliant buildings meet government regulations and/or common practices in the local market, nothing more.
The next level of performance is Better Building Practices. This level complies with an additional standard that is typically developed by local, regional, or state level governments, or the local building industry. This type of standard is generally slightly better than code but not as rigorous as the more recognized third party standards such as the US Green Buildings Council’s (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standard.
High Performance or “Green” Buildings are the next level. These are defined as LEED Silver or Gold buildings. For example in America, LEED Gold buildings, on average, perform 30% - 45% more efficiently in their energy use than average buildings.
The next level “Pursuing Sustainability” is where the concept of “net-zero” impacts begins to arise, in a variety of areas including energy, potable water use and waste. “Net-zero” energy refers to a building that produces as much energy in a year as it uses. LEED Platinum provides some recognition for this level of performance and the Living Building Challenge actually requires this level of building performance. It is worth noting that neither of these systems reaches the level of “fully sustainable”, a threshold that must be passed to move towards “restorative Buildings”.
Restorative Buildings are structures that gives back more resources than they consume. It is beyond “net-zero” and beyond simply “sustainable”. These buildings will generate more energy than they use, produce more clean water than they use, and will recycle/reuse more resources than they consume. This type of building is still just a vision, but the idea of restorative buildings is very compelling to the early adopters of green building who are currently pursuing “net-zero” and “Living” buildings with great enthusiasm.
| Translation - Chinese
建筑的未来是绿色建筑
从节约能源和水到使用当地健康材料，全世界越来越多的项目正引入绿色建筑的理念。随着城市人口变得越来越密集，资源变得越来越缺乏和昂贵，我们建造建筑物的方式必须改变，这是显而易见。现在不但机构和管理部门要求达到绿色建筑物的目标，甚至建筑法令也要求达到绿色建筑的目标。这些公共团体的举动加速了改变的步伐。除了公共部门之外，市场本身也要求私人开发商采用绿色建筑的做法，而开发商本身也发现，绿色建筑认证是在竞争激烈的市场上将他们的产品和其他人的产品区分开来的一个确定的策略性方法。这种改变并不只是局限在美国或西方，而是随处可见（如中国和阿布扎比的新的强制性绿色建筑分级系统。全世界的绿色建筑运动是显而易见的）。正因如此，了解绿色建筑是什么意思和各种定义是怎样影响每个项目的就显得非常重要。
什么是绿色建筑或高性能建筑？
绿色建筑就是这样一种做法，它通过将建筑物建在更好和更智能化的地点，通过更好和更智能化的建筑设计/集中、建筑技术、建筑运营和维护及减少垃圾和清除垃圾（所有这些都影响整个建筑物的生命周期和业主必须管理的成本），提高建筑物使用资源（能源、水和材料）的效率，同时减少建筑物对人体健康和环境的影响。
正如图1中指出一样，绿色建筑有很多种。随着建筑物性能的增加，建筑物的生态影响跟着降低，图中从左到右显示了这种趋势。
左边典型的符合法令要求的建筑物达到当地市场政府管理规定的要求，符合普通做法，仅此而已。
建筑性能的下一个等级是“更好的建筑做法”。这个等级符合额外标准，这种额外的标准通常是由当地、地区政府或州政府或地方建筑行业制定的。这种标准通常比法令规定的要求高一点，但没有第三方机构（如美国绿色建筑委员会和能源与环境设计先导）的标准严格，而人们对这种第三方机构的标准的认同度较高。
下一个等级是高性能或“绿色”建筑。这些建筑被定义为能源与环境设计先导银牌或金牌建筑。例如，在美国，能源与环境设计先导金牌建筑在能源利用方面比普通建筑的效率平均高30%-45%。
下一个等级是“追求可持续性”等级，这个等级也是“净零”影响概念产生的等级。“净零”影响概念可应用于各个方面, 包括能源、饮用水和垃圾。“净零”能源是指一个建筑物一年产生的能源与它使用的能源一样多。能源与环境设计先导白金建筑就是对有这种性能的建筑物的认同。实际上，“有生命的建筑挑战”就要求达到这个等级的建筑性能。值得注意的是，所有这些系统都达不到“完全可持续”的水平，这是跨入“可恢复建筑”等级的门槛。
可恢复建筑是这样一些结构, 它们产生的资源比它们消耗的还多。这超出了“净零”和仅仅是“可持续”的概念。这些建筑物产生的能源比它们用的还多，产生的水比它们用的还多，同时它们循环使用/再使用比它们消耗的更多的资源。这种类型的建筑物还是一个远景，但可恢复建筑对于早期使用绿色建筑，现在正充满激情地追求“净零”和“有生命”建筑的人来说非常具有驱动力。
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| | | BA-Guangdong University of Foreign Studies | | | Years of translation experience: 15. Registered at ProZ.com: Mar 2008. Became a member: Apr 2008. | | | Chinese to English (Universities Steering Committee)
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It is true that I have lost some projects because of saying no to the outsourcers, but I will continue to do this because it is my principle, and the principle of a professional freelance translator.
3. I have an editor and proofreader who offers her services to me free of charge. It is my wife. She also graduated from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (one of the most distinguished universities in foreign language studies in China) just like me. She is also a TEM8 (Test for English Majors Grade 8, the highest grade in China) certificate holder (me too!). So we have a lot in common.:-) That's not important to you. What might be interested to you are:
A. The translation I submit to you will be edited and proofread by another translator to ensure better quality. Not all the translators in the web have this advantage. In fact, they should have one. That is what editor and proofreader are for.
B. As the service is provided to me free of charge, I am in a position to quote a lower rate, which reduces your cost.
So as a freelance, I am very lucky to have a wife who is a part time translator. As an outsourcer, you will be satisfied to have 2 translators working for you with only one payment.
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