Translation 1: A brief introduction

Tasks:

a. Try to translate into Vietnamese

b. Suggest steps of your translation

c. Make a list of difficulties you face in your translation

(P/S: NO GOOGLE TRANSLATE)

1. College is an experiment in hope. It’s also a risky investment for us all. Whether it is
graduate or undergraduate school, a two-year program or an eight-year one, we entrust
time in our lives to school for both a new identity and a ticket to the outside world. We
come to college with unspoken anticipation of all that will be done for us. We expect to be
made acceptable, valuable, and finally employable in the eyes of the world. We also hope
that magic answers will be revealed to us through academic study, leading us to
guaranteed success in the outside world. By graduation or completion of our chosen
program, we presume everything will be clear; we will be made brilliant, and all
knowledge will be accessible to us.

2. Emperor Gia Long initiated what historian David Marr has called “a policy of massive
reassertion of Confucian values and institutions” in order to consolidate the dynasty’s
shaky position by appealing to the conservative tendencies of the elite, who had felt
threatened by the atmosphere of reform stirred up by the Tay Son Rebels.

3. The developing world’s population is growing fast, but the amount of land available for
cultivation is not. To feed the 2 billion new mouths expected by 2025, new ways must be
found to squeeze more calories out of each hectare. More people means not just more
stomachs to fill, but also more brains to figure out how to fill them.

4. Ours is a world in which no individual, and no country, exists in isolation. We are all
influenced by the same tides of political, social and technological change. Pollution,
organized crime and the proliferation of deadly weapons likewise show little regard for
borders. We are connected, wired, interdependent.

5. MOONLIGHTING MEDICOS IN VIETNAM

Since health-care reforms were carried out in 1989, physicians and dentists have been
allowed to supplement their incomes by seeing private patients on the side - after their
regular office hours at state-run clinics and hospitals. Retired physicians, formerly on
the state payroll, have also been allowed to start private practices…..
 6. Are you an e-believer? Then you probably are convinced that the Internet rewrites the
rules of competition, overturns conventional wisdom about how to run a company, and
offers limitless opportunities to grow new businesses and create wealth.

7. In the decades following WWII, the name ‘Vietnam’ came to signify to many Westerners
either a brutal jungle war or a spectacular failure of American power - or both. While
no doubt the Vietnam war continues to weigh heavily on the consciousness of all who can
remember the fighting, the Vietnam today, with its unique and rich civilisation,
astonishing scenery and highly cultured and friendly people, is a country at peace.

8. (chỉ cần dịch tựa đề)

9.

Hanoi’s foods are described in early historical records. In his book “Vietnam’s Geography”
published in the early 15th century, Nguyen Trai listed some well-known foods and drinks of
the capital city at that time.
Vu Bang observes, “One Autumn day I wandered through the 36 streets of Hanoi’s old
quarter and suddenly realised that Hanoi had changed a lot: the streets, houses and clothes.
One thing remained unchanged, though: the foods Hanoians eat.