Qian Peixin had experienced it once, so he was not as surprised by this incident as Chen Qing.
But he still didn't know why Zhang Zhong wanted to read their French version of the manuscript.
Everyone knows that Zhang Zhong masters multiple languages, especially English. Zhang Zhong's English level has reached a level close to that of his native language. His previous books, as long as they were in English, were all translated by him.
Perhaps the word translation is no longer accurate. Many people think that some of Zhang Zhong's works should originally be in English, but instead are translated into Chinese.
For example, the English version of Zhang Zhong's first science fiction novel, "A Bouquet for Algernon," didn't look out of place at all. When many Americans saw this book at the time, they didn't even realize it was a novel.
A book written by a foreign author.
But it is well known that Zhang Zhong is not familiar with French.
Although Zhang Zhong is very famous in France, deeply loved by French readers, and won the Goncourt Literary Prize, his French level is indeed not good. Every time he is interviewed by reporters in France, he needs a translator to accompany him.
Even with Zhang Zhong's level of French, he pays special attention to the translation of the French version.
Earlier, Qian Peixin thought that Zhang Zhong was just paying attention casually, but he did not expect that Zhang Zhong actually paid attention to their French translation version and even revised their French version manuscript.
Although Zhang Zhong did not make many revisions, this is not a question of how many revisions he made, but that Zhang Zhong actually revised their translation version.
Moreover, Zhang Zhong did not modify it randomly, the places he modified were very reasonable.
Qian Peixin even believed that if he hadn't known that Zhang Zhong's French was indeed average, he would have suspected that Zhang Zhong's French level was extremely high.
The several changes made by Zhang Zhong are very reasonable and add a lot of highlights to their version.
At first, Qian Peixin thought that Zhang Zhong was worried about their French translation team and specifically found other translators outside to check their translation.
But thinking about it carefully, this is not very reasonable. It is impossible for Zhang Zhong to spend money to find other translators outside, and there are not many things to modify.
Besides, although Qian Peixin has not been in contact with Zhang Zhong for a long time, he also knows that Zhang Zhong is definitely not the kind of person who makes small moves. If Zhang Zhong really finds someone to review their manuscript, he will definitely inform them directly.
Later, as time passed, Qian Peixin gradually forgot about this matter. He only remembered it when Chen Qing mentioned it this time.
He really wanted to see what would happen after their version was given to Zhang Zhong this time.
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The reason why Zhang Zhong asked Chen Qing to show him the French version first was because in this lottery he not only got the Chinese version, but also the French version. He hoped that the French version could be as close to the original version as possible.
If he were not afraid of outside suspicion, he could of course just show the original French version.
But this is obviously impossible.
It was impossible for him to explain this matter to the people, so he might as well not cause trouble in the first place.
After sending "The Shadow Stealer", Zhang Zhong rushed to Shizhong College. The school has been very busy recently because there are many things packed together.
With the college entrance examination approaching, the admissions work is becoming increasingly busy. In addition to the continuous work of the admissions office, other departments, including deputy deans Wen Han and Yang Xiao, have little free time. They are all busy with the publicity work of the middle school.
There is also the issue of general education courses. Most of the general education courses in Shizhong College start in May, and the timetable of general education courses has just been finalized and will not be released to students for grabs in two days.
After the general courses are confirmed, most of the teachers in the college will become busy, because in addition to attending classes during the day, they will also begin to have more tasks at night, including Zhang Zhong.
Zhang Zhong has a lot of general education courses this year, and they are all scheduled after May.
In Shizhong College alone, he had a total of seventy-eight hours of general education courses this semester.
There are still two months left. Excluding weekends, there are still about forty days of classes.
This means that in the remaining forty days, Zhang Zhong will complete seventy-eight classes for the students of Shizhong College.
On average, there are nearly two classes a day.
Not only that, in addition to having classes at Shizhong College, Zhang Zhong also had more than two classes at Jiangyang University.
This is just a general course, and Zhang Zhong himself has other courses.
In total, Zhang Zhong needs to attend five classes every day.
Five classes a day for two months is a very demanding task for a university teacher.
But there is no way. Zhang Zhong owes too much to his students. If he doesn't make up for it in these two months, he will only owe more and more in the future.
By the next semester, he plans to arrange his classes more evenly, especially for general education courses. Many classes can be taught online, or arranged in the first half of the semester. In this case, he does not have to divide the classes into
They are all squeezed into the off-duty semester.
When Zhang Zhong was worried about arranging classes for the next semester in his office, Yang Xiao walked into Zhang Zhong's office with a cup of coffee and said jokingly, "If I had known this, why bother? You are a good principal,
But you were too relaxed in the first half of the semester, and basically had nothing to do. Now you are better, and all the debts you owed before have to be paid off now."
Zhang Zhong sat behind his desk, rolled his eyes at him, and ignored him.
Yang Xiao looked at Zhang Zhong's look, leaned back on the sofa with a smile, and said, "How about I give you an idea?"
Zhang Zhong raised his head and glanced at him, but didn't take his words seriously, "What's your idea?"
"I took a look and found that many of your classes are the same. In this case, there is no need to waste time on small class teaching. Doesn't this reduce efficiency? I suggest you improve your efficiency." Yang Xiao said.
Zhang Zhong said, "My current general education courses do not have small classes, they are basically all large classes."
"That's right, your current general education classes are all in large classes, but there are no extra large classes." Yang Xiao said.
"From the extra large class?" Zhang Zhong asked doubtfully.
Yang Xiao said, "The auditorium of our junior high school has always been there and has not been used much. Why don't you put it there? Now there are 180 people in a large class. If we put three classes together
, it’s just over 500 people. Our auditorium can accommodate several thousand people, so naturally these 500 people are not a problem.”
Zhang Zhong understood what Yang Xiao meant, raised his head and said, "You mean, hold an open class?"
Yang Xiao waved his hand, "It can't be considered an open class, it's just a large class teaching. It's just that our class is a bit big, with more than 500 people."