一致性指南 (Guidelines for Consistency)

The following sets of Chinese and English translation guidelines should be followed. It is of particular importance when several translators are handling the same document in a group.

Contents	English	Chinese	Remarks
Date	12 January 2013 Twelfth of January, Two Thousand and Thirteen	2013年1月12日二零一三年一月十二日	Use Arabic numbers but in formal documents such as diplomas, fully written Chinese/English should be adopted.
Time	2:15 p.m. 2:15 a.m. A Quarter past Two	下午2時15分上午2時15分二時十五分	Use Arabic numbers In English/Chinese only
Arabic Numeric Number	1, 2, 3 ….	1, 2, 3 …..	No need to translate
Cardinal Number	One, Two, Three .. One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten	一、二、三 … 壹、貳、参、肆、伍、陸、柒、捌、玖、拾	Translate into traditional Chinese character and vice versa As used in cheques.
Ordinal Number (Linguistics)	First (1^st), Second (2^nd), Third (3^rd), Fourth (4^th), Fifth (5^th), Sixth (6^th), Seventh (7^th), Eighth (8^th), Ninth (9^th), Tenth (10^th), .. Half, One Third, One Fourth, ….	第一、第二、第三…… 二分之一、三分之一、四分之一 …..	Translate into traditional Chinese character and vice versa
Address in English or Chinese	Unit 2, 10 floor, Block 1, Phase 2, Kin Ho Building, 10 Au Pui Wan Street, Fo Tan, Shatin, the New Territories, Hong Kong.	香港新界沙田火炭坳背灣街10號金豪大廈1期10樓2室	Use Arabic numbers; English address starts from a small unit
Address in a language other than English or Chinese	No.3 Raffles Place, #06-01 Bharat Building, SG 048617	莱佛士坊3号＃06-01 巴拉特大厦新加坡048617	No need to translate if the translator does not understand. But do translate if you are sure that the translation is correct.
Foreign statute	UK law e.g. Carriage by Air Act 1961	英国的Carriage by Air Act 1961
Foreign judge	Lord Wilberforce	Wilberforce勳爵
Books	Time Magazine	《時代周刊》	Use italics in English
Quotation marks	“I am a Chinese.”	「我是中國人。」	Full stop within quotation mark
Quotation mark within a parenthesis	(hereinafter referred to “Supplier”)	[以下簡稱「供應商」]	Applicable to translation of litigation documents.
Space between sentences	He is a school boy. She is a school girl.	他是學童。她是學童。	Two spaces between sentences English. No space between those in Chinese.
Round and square brackets	( )	﹝ ﹞	Follow the requirements of Court translation. All round brackets in the English source text become square brackets in the Chinese target text and vice versa.
Name in English or Chinese	Godfrey J.	高奕暉法官	Do translate as far as possible. (the Chinese names of judges in HKSAR can be found at the website of Judiciary). But if the judge is a foreign judge and has no Chinese name, do not need to translate into Chinese.
Presentation in 1^st person “I” by a judge and “We” or “This Court” by the Judges	I	本席本庭
Names in language other than Chinese or English	JUNI WONOWIDJOJO (Indonesian name)	—	No need to translate. It is easy to make mistakes if you do not know the language.
Left- and- right Alignment	Example of aligning to the left: Some proper and geographical names can be found in the Oxford Advanced Learner’s English-Chinese Dictionary. Example of aligning to the right: Some proper and geographical names can be found in the Oxford Advanced Learner’s English-Chinese Dictionary	—	Align text to the left unless you are told to do otherwise.
Symbol used to show likely mistake in the source text	“mmm” (sic)	“mmm” (原文如此)	The symbol is used after a word which is not spelt or used correctly.
Margin	Allow 3cm margin on all sides, top, bottom, left and right	Allow 3cm margin on all sides: top, bottom, left and right
Line space	1.5 spacing (for documents other than those for courts) Double line spacing (for court)	1.5 spacing (for documents other than those for court) Double line spacing (for court)
Font	Times New Roman in size 14	新細明體 in size 14 (NB: For Chinese characters in transcript used by court, “font 15” and “character spacing extended 2” should be selected.)	(1) Further information on documents translated for court, see attached files. (2) For installing characters for Cantonese slangs, please refer to screen shots below.
Percentage	20%	百分之二十
Currency	Renminbi	人民幣
Currency	HK$100 US$100 RMB100	100港元/港幣100元 100美元人民幣100元

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