After being reborn, I have seven older sisters.

Chunsheng silently watched the group of college graduates, who were scratching their heads in frustration because they couldn't translate the contents of the English instruction manual.

He felt it was normal that they couldn't translate it, since they weren't English majors.

Furthermore, almost all of the people who have graduated from university in recent years were admitted through recommendations, with academic performance only being used as a reference.

Therefore, it is not surprising that their English proficiency varies greatly, with some even being quite poor.

Just now, when one of them read out the sentence they couldn't translate, Chunsheng heard it clearly.

The meaning of that sentence is actually very simple; it's just an ordinary everyday expression.

They had looked up the words in the dictionary and knew each one individually, but they couldn't understand them when they were put together.

The reason is simple: that phrase is a slang term.

Anyone who has studied English knows that when you encounter idioms or common phrases, you just need to memorize them and don't need to try to piece them together and translate them.

If we were to rely on past experience and simply translate it word by word, the resulting meaning would be completely incomprehensible to anyone!

Although Chunsheng hadn't personally witnessed the English materials they were translating, he felt that if those people opposite him couldn't even understand such simple sentences, then they were in serious trouble.

So, when you encounter complex sentence structures, such as relative clauses, it will be like reading gibberish, leaving you even more confused.

Just then, the office door opened, and a well-dressed man who was clearly the leader walked in.

As soon as the man entered, he immediately asked Gao Xiaocheng and the others, "How did it go? Can you handle it?"

The group exchanged awkward glances, but no one responded.

The leader smiled and said, "It's alright. I didn't have high hopes anyway. I just invited you all here to give it a try. I've already contacted a university in the provincial capital, and they can help with the translation."

"It's just that we need to translate too much material, and we need it urgently, so the other party's asking price is naturally a bit too high for us to accept."

"However, I have already reported this matter to Director Liu, who is in charge of production. He said he would hold a meeting this afternoon to discuss it."

At this moment, someone immediately asked, "Section Chief Wang, what exactly are the prices the universities in the provincial capital asking for?"

Wang Beiping looked around and, upon discovering that Chunsheng and the other two strangers were sitting in the office, did not answer them directly but instead held up two fingers.

The man immediately exclaimed in surprise, "Two hundred yuan? That's not much!"

Wang Beiping rolled his eyes at the other person and said in a low voice, "Dream on! It's two thousand yuan! If it were two hundred, I wouldn't need to go to Director Liu; I could have decided this myself."

Upon hearing that the price was so high, everyone lowered their heads in helplessness and remained silent.

Although two thousand yuan is much lower than the price charged by the middleman, it is still a considerable expense for a factory that is in a period of development and growth and needs to spend money everywhere.

"Alright, it's almost time to get off work. You guys go eat first, and check with Director Liu this afternoon. If he agrees, great. If he thinks the price is too high and doesn't agree, I'll think of another way!"

Not long after Wang Beiping turned and left, a ringtone suddenly sounded throughout the entire building.

Third sister's husband, Gao Xiaocheng, came over and said with a smile, "Let's go! I'll take you to the cafeteria for a good lunch."

Song Chunping immediately stood up and said, "There's no need to go to the small canteen. The food in your main canteen is just fine. Why waste your money going to the small canteen!"

Chunmiao quickly added, "Brother-in-law, let's eat in your cafeteria. I've never been there before!"

At this moment, Gao Xiaocheng looked at Chunsheng and smiled, "Little brother, it's up to you whether we go to the big cafeteria or the small cafeteria?"

Without even thinking, Chunsheng said, "Let's listen to my two older sisters, the cafeteria is fine."

Gao Xiaocheng shook his head helplessly and said to Song Chunping with a smile, "You're too good at saving money. Your younger siblings have come all this way, you have to treat them to something nice!"

Before Song Chunping could speak, Chunsheng immediately said, "Brother-in-law, my sister is doing this slowly but surely. By saving money on the cafeteria, I can come more often!"

Chunsheng's words immediately made everyone burst into laughter. Gao Xiaocheng said, "Sure! You can come anytime on Saturdays when you don't have classes. Your brother-in-law will take you to the cafeteria for lunch, and then take you to take a shower!"

Just as the four of them reached the door, Chunsheng couldn't help but glance at the desk where Gao Xiaocheng and the others had just been sitting.

At that moment, the area around the table was empty; everyone had gone to the cafeteria for lunch, leaving only an English dictionary and a table full of manuscripts and materials.

"Hyosung, were you guys just discussing translating machine manuals?"

"Yes, the thin booklet next to the English dictionary is the instruction manual, and the thicker one is the machine operation manual. I've spent the whole morning trying to figure out how to translate them."

"May I take a look?"

"Of course!"

When Chunsheng walked to the table, he first picked up the instruction manual and quickly glanced at it, only to find that it was full of pictures with very little text.

Then he picked up the machine operation manual and quickly flipped through it. Almost every page had pictures, but the text made up more than 60% of the entire manual.

When he turned to the last page, he discovered that the entire booklet actually had more than 300 pages.

No wonder the university in the provincial capital quoted 2000 yuan for translating this operation manual; it's packed with content!

After Chunsheng read through the manual carefully, he was surprised to find that much of the content was similar or even repetitive.

In this way, once the entire manual is translated, it is not as long as it appears on the surface.

After reading them, Chunsheng immediately put the two documents back in their original places.

At this moment, his brother-in-law, Gao Xiaocheng, looked at him curiously and asked, "Can you understand what's inside?"

Chunsheng smiled and replied, "I didn't look at it very carefully, but after a few quick glances, I think I can recognize most of the words."

Gao Xiaocheng continued, "My colleagues could recognize the words, but they couldn't translate it. Do you know why?"

Chunsheng thought for a moment and immediately explained, "I guess it's because they're not familiar with the English language!"

Gao Xiaocheng frowned slightly and asked curiously, "What did you mean just now? I didn't understand."

"Actually, what I'm trying to say is that English, like Chinese, has many idiomatic expressions. For example, 'roujiamo' doesn't actually mean a bun filled with meat, but rather meat sandwiched in a bun."

"Besides these common usages, there are also some special sentence structures and grammar that are completely different from our Chinese way of expression. If you are not familiar with these, even if you know every English word, you may not be able to translate the sentences accurately."

Gao Xiaocheng quickly understood, then smiled and said, "I've always heard your third sister say how well you study, but I never really paid attention before. Just now, you explained all my doubts so clearly in just a few words. Now it seems you're really something!"