And the Winner is: the Source Language!

如果赢家是：源语言！

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A translator must be well acquainted with the source language.

一个译者必须很精通源语言。

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Like any other translation it should convey the meaning and the music of the source language.

像其他翻译一样，它应该传达源语言的意义和韵味。

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"While cost remains a major factor in decisions about where to off-source, the quality of the labor pool is gaining importance, and this includes English language skills."

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In a compiled language, you have an intermediate step, in which you take the source code, it runs through what's called a checker or a compiler or both, and it creates what's called object code.

而在编译语言里，你就会经过一个中间的步骤，在这种语言里输入源码后，先经过过滤器,或者编译器检查后，它会创建一个叫做目标代码的东西。

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So write the so called source code which is in a specific language.

用指定的编程语言,写出所谓的源代码。

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Linguistic-knowledge translators have two sets of grammatical rules one for the source language and one for the target.

ECONOMIST: A gift of tongues

Input sentences of the source language were transformed directly into output sentences of the target language, using a simple form of parsing.

ECONOMIST: A gift of tongues

Apart from being much more accurate, such linguistic-knowledge engines should, in theory, be reversible you should be able to work backwards from the target language to the source language.

ECONOMIST: A gift of tongues