The development of the domestic logistics industry has been blown up internationally.
However, it is well known that services are suspended during the Spring Festival. After all, the whole country is celebrating the New Year, and the courier brother also has to take a holiday. As the Zhou family does not do much online shopping, I really don’t know which express delivery company will still work as usual during the Spring Festival.
Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year.
Zhou Congshu went downstairs and saw a courier truck with a stamp on it parked on the side of the road. After walking in, the driver also opened the door: "Is this a courier from Zhou Sheng?"
"Ang, yes." Zhou Congshu responded, and started gossiping: "You guys are really working hard, and you don't even take a break on the first day of the new year?"
The younger brother smiled bitterly: "We will continue to operate for three hundred and sixty-five days, but the overtime pay is high. I just had a baby at home, so I can't wait for the opportunity to come in? Okay, you sign here, and you also need to take a photo."
end."
Zhou Congshu obeyed and asked again: "Do you still want to take pictures?"
The little brother took out a document and pointed to the lettering: "International Express, High Quotation Line, Insurance Mainly."
International express delivery?
Zhou Congshu was confused and thought about it for a long time, but to no avail.
Signed, took photos, and the courier guy drove away.
Zhou Congshu lowered his head to read the English on the document, walked home, and muttered in confusion: "Lancet? Lancet? Lancet?"
His English is not that good. Don’t think that doctors need to read professional monographs in English to have good English. He may not know much about certain professional terms, but he is really blind when he really wants to pronounce and read them, let alone grammar.
And how many years has it been since Zhou Congshu left the front line? Although the clinic is busy, it lacks motivation and focuses more on traditional Chinese medicine knowledge.
To say that The Lancet is world-famous, one must also be aware that when Zhou Congshu was a front-line doctor, the status of domestic scholars in the international academic community was really not high and their involvement was relatively shallow. At that time, professional title evaluations in public institutions were not required.
Thesis preparation.
So much so that even if the lancet is placed in front of me, I can't see it.
Returned to the clinic and closed the door.
Before the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, the clinic is closed, so the Zhou family can take a break every year at this time.
Second floor.
When Zhou Shouming saw his son coming back with a heavy document bag in his hand, he asked: "What kind of express delivery? Why do you still come to deliver it during the Chinese New Year?"
"I don't know either. They said it was sent from abroad. Look at the vague English on it. Why don't you give it a look?" Zhou Congshu threw the document bag on the coffee table with a teasing smile on his face. It was obvious that he was
Fuck people.
Zhou Shouming couldn't laugh or cry, he laughed and cursed: "I want to understand, what do I want from you?"
"By the way, let Zhenxi take a look, there are foreigners in our family." Zhou Congshu sat down on the sofa and waved to Jieral. "Zhenxi, come here, show grandpa what's going on here.
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Jieral's half-baked English is fairly fluent in spoken English, but asking her to read is like reading a book from heaven.
The two men joked a little, and Zhou Congshu started to study on his own. Even if he had forgotten all his previous English knowledge, with today's modern technology, is it still possible to translate a document without any results?
Turn on the phone and start working on it.
"lancet, lancet?"
"Sent from the British magazine headquarters?"
"msf.zhou.chn, dear."
Zhou Congshu was not stupid, and after thinking for a moment, he came up with a vague answer. The Lancet should be some foreign device, with the suffix of the name chn, and it must be his son.
"msf, it sounds familiar..."
Bang bang bang.
Open DuNiangDun search.
"Hey." Zhou Congshu exclaimed.
Zhou Shouming turned around and asked, "What's wrong? Did you find anything?"
"MSF, Doctors Without Borders, when did you join this organization in your life?"
Doctors Without Borders?
The old father and son looked at each other, both muttering.
"It was probably done in Africa."
"It should be..."
"What's going on with the magazine here?"
"Study materials? Or maybe this kid decided it himself." Zhou Congshu thought for a moment and looked at the document bag with excitement. "How about we open it and take a look?"
Zhou Shouming obviously wanted to make a move, but he only struggled for a second before shaking his head: "The child is old and must have his own privacy."
But the words are not finished yet.
Tear.
The sealing strip of the document bag was ripped open directly by Zhou Congshu.
"Oh, you didn't say anything for a long time, I thought you agreed!" Someone looked bitter and regretful, and with one sentence, he immediately dismissed the old father.
The old man was so choked that he couldn't say a word. Now that he has opened them, let's take a look.
The magazine is published once in January, summarizing global academic articles, printed with color pages, and is a particularly thick volume.
The two old men found it strange.
The old man grabbed the magazine first, and he must be the first to read it. After all, the blame cannot be paid for nothing.
Zhou Congshu was not in a hurry. The old man took out the magazine and saw that there was a folded letter in the document bag. The magazine was definitely not the focus, the focus was on the letter.
It is written on the outer packaging of the document bag, msf.zhou.chn.
Such a grand occasion cannot be just a shipping details sheet, it is an international magazine after all.
The envelope was shaken open and the whole story was described in English. The tadpole text made Brother Shu dizzy.
Just looking at the initial wording, the vocabulary used is quite formal and cumbersome.
The languages of various countries have similar characteristics. There are often big differences between official written language and spoken language. Chinese is easy to speak, but there are many similar phrases, but English is crap.
It's hard to put the phrases together, as if they want no one to be next to each other to make them look special.
The simplest example is that chicken is chicken and egg is egg.
People who are new to the language will sincerely regard these two things as different species. There is no chain reaction like Chinese. The eggs laid by chickens must be eggs, so don't be too "ahem".
so.
Brother Shu felt a headache when he read all the official written language.
He might still be able to read ordinary vernacular English novels, and he could still piece together word associations if he didn't understand the grammar. This was better, because the long strings of words were more obscure than medical terms, and he couldn't even think of them.
The old man on the side was looking through the monograph, but actually he only looked at the illustrations.
Zhou Congshu simply picked up the translation software and started piecing it together word by word.
That's twenty minutes.
Wow.
Zhou Congshu shook the letter and turned around: "Dad, dad, dad! That's amazing, that's amazing!"
The old man was watching the excitement. He was so frightened by such a bluff that he shook his whole body and said angrily: "What are you shouting for? Why is it so big? You are dozens of years old and you can't be steady?"
"Oh, Dad, read the letter quickly, read the letter."
Zhou Shouming's face became increasingly unhappy: "Do I understand? Hurry up and tell me what you see. Don't be pretentious."
If my son had such a big reaction, he must have discovered something.
The old man was also very curious.
He just flipped through the book and didn't recognize any of the big characters. He simply thought that the pages of foreigners' books were printed to a very high standard.
Zhou Congshu took a deep breath and handed the letter to the old man: "Now, look, the letter is from the lancet review department. It says that the paper has been approved for publication, and it is on the first page of the promotional release. Look here..."
He hurriedly turned the pages of the book again. As soon as the first few pages of the table of contents were passed, it was "Exploration of Emergency (Field) Medicine: Feasibility of Single and Double Channel Sealing in Kidney Removal". The characters were naturally in English.
However, below the title, the author's name is introduced.
msf.zhou.chn.
msf.delia&michelsen.uk.
"Dad, look at this first name, it means a lifetime." Zhou Congshu was so excited that he couldn't help himself.