Analyzing The Reasons For Mistakes In Interpreting Long Sentences With Dense Numbers

One of the challenges in simultaneous interpreting(SI)is numbers,which greatly increases the interpreters' pressure on their listening and analyzing,short term memory and speech production.Many long sentences with dense numbers appear in The Report On Government's Work.Those sentences are already hard to translate.On this basis,together with dense numbers,the interpreters may find it more difficult to translate.The author invites six interpreters to take part in an experiment.In the light of Gile's Effort model,and after quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis,the author explores the ways to translate long sentences with dense numbers.The experiment document is The Report On Government's Work(part 1).In this section,long sentences with dense numbers frequently appear.The author dictates the transcript of the six interpreters and analyzes the reasons why they make mistakes.Based on the conclusions,the author tries to put forward some suggestion on how to deal with long sentences containing dense numbers.The following conclusions are made on the basis of the experiment and the analysis:Among all the numbers,those above 10000 are where interpreters make mistakes the most frequently.What follows are numbers below 10000,numbers concerning percentages and numbers in relation to dates.To solve these problems,the interpreters can cut down their ear-voice span(EVS),lower their short term memory burden and produce numbers first,etc.