Skills of English-Chinese Figure Interpreting from the Perspective of Effort Models-A Report on Simulated Interpreting practice of An Intelligence Square Debate

Abstract

Figure interpreting has been one of the difficulties in interpretation study because figures are hard to remember, to be taken notes of and to be conversed between different languages, often leading to misinterpreting and lowering the quality of interpretation. However, figure interpreting being a significant area of study, has not received enough attention.

Therefore, this essay, based on the author’s interpreting practice of an Intelligence Square debate on Has Globalization undermined American Workers, aims to analyse the frequency, reasons and types of figure errors statistically and provide suggestions on quickly and accurately delivering figure information under the guidance of Effort Models in English-Chinese consecutive interpreting.