科技翻译者应尽量懂得所涉及的专业知识。自己陌生的科技文献,最好先仔细阅读一点有关的中文资料,免得翻译闹出笑话。去年4～6月,我在吴忠市棉织厂担任口译,那里有一套西德引进的静电植绒设备生产线,需要安装、调试直到试生产。有一个“Olbrenner”单字,进口商品检验时,翻译翻成“油锅”。西德专家没来前,他们到处找“油 Technical translators should try to understand the expertise involved. His strange scientific and technological documents, it is best to carefully read a bit of relevant Chinese information, so as not to translate jokes. From April to June last year, I worked in Wuzhong Cotton Mill as an interpreter. There was a production line of electrostatic flocking equipment imported from West Germany, which needs to be installed and debugged till trial production. There is an “Olbrenner” word, translated into “oil pan” when the inspection of imported goods. West Germany experts did not come before they find "oil