今天看福布斯的一篇文章，里面有一句话：
The launch of the Mate 30 last year and the P40 last month have been stymied everywhere bar China given the lack off Google’s software and services.
这个bar在这里是什么意思？
我查了一下词典，《英汉大词典》里第三项比较适合：
III prep. 【主英】除…外
All was over bar the formal recording of the votes.
一切都已结束，只剩下把表决结果正式记录在案了。
感觉Google可以算是避开了这个问题，跳过了提供细节补充的地点状语everywhere bar China，而对其余信息的处理尚可。而Microsoft则做得更差一些。虽然也没有尝试硬攻而是采取了迂回策略（但保留了everywhere），但后面却画蛇添足使用了冲突关系逻辑词（但。。。却。。。）——考虑到“但”这个词连接的前后两句话都在说“阻、受阻"，这是个连通顺都成问题的处理。
I sometimes take a glance at what machines can do today, too. It's amazing how far technology has come in terms of translations, but in general I'd say machines still have a long way to go.
So guys and gals, don't give up your day job just yet.
AI will become more and more powerful and the day will come when it will take over translation from human beings, probably leaving humans with the job of pre-editing and post-editing—after all, translation is meant for humans to read, not for machines.
发表于 2020-4-29 07:23:22
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