After being slightly shocked, Zhou Yang looked at Yang Yunzhao and asked: "Director Yang, what are you trying to translate?"

Yang Yunzhao did not hide anything and said immediately: "Comrade Zhou Yang, what I want you to translate is a batch of chemistry textbooks!"

"Chemistry textbook?"

Zhou Yang couldn't help but frowned. Chemistry is a basic subject, and the textbooks have been compiled by various schools decades ago. Why do they suddenly need to translate foreign textbooks?

More importantly, it was just translating some foreign chemistry textbooks, which was not a big deal, and it did not involve state secrets. Why would they come all the way to find him!

"Why did you find me?" Zhou Yang asked puzzledly.

Yang Yunzhao said hurriedly: "Comrade Zhou Yang, there are two reasons why I am looking for you. The first is Director Guo's strong recommendation, and the second is that we really can't find a more suitable translator than you!"

Yang Yunzhao didn't lie about this. He had no choice but to approach Zhou Yang this time!

At that moment, Yang Yunzhao told Zhou Yang about his situation in detail!

The situation of Saibei University is quite special. As a comprehensive university established after the founding of the People's Republic of China, it is only twenty years old and has really no foundation.

Originally, the Chemistry Department of Saibei University was not ranked high in the country.

Not to mention compared with Shuimu University and Jingcheng University, even among all non-key universities, it is the only one with a tail-end.

To make matters worse, in the past few years, due to well-known reasons, teachers in the Chemistry Department of Saibei University have been decentralized and decentralized.

There are only three or two kittens left in such a large Department of Chemistry, which is completely an empty shell.

That's all. Due to policy reasons, college admissions in recent years have been changed from examination admission to recommendation system, which is the so-called Workers', Peasants and Soldiers' University.

Since the recommended students include workers, farmers and soldiers, their educational levels vary widely, and some people have never been exposed to chemistry before going to college.

The content of the original textbook was too profound for people like them and they were completely incomprehensible.

However, schools have teaching tasks, and they must teach!

As a result, school teachers had to simplify the teaching materials again and again, so much so that the chemistry department of a prestigious national key university only taught students knowledge equivalent to high school chemistry, which is really embarrassing.

The above are also aware of this problem and hope to make changes.

Yang Yunzhao was appointed as the dean of the Chemistry Department of Saibei University by his superiors, and he was explicitly asked to re-support the Chemistry Department of Saibei University and not let such a key subject collapse like this.

But when Yang Yunzhao arrived at Saibei University and learned about the situation, he found that the situation here was far more serious than imagined.

After researching with the teachers of the Chemistry Department, everyone agreed that there are two problems that the current Chemistry Department must solve first.

One is talent, the other is teaching materials!

Talents are divided into teachers and students. If we want to rebuild the Department of Chemistry, we must first have a group of teachers with excellent professional quality, and we must also have a group of students with high quality. Both are indispensable.

As for the teachers, they decided to ask for help from the capital and ask the higher-ups to transfer some teachers of comparable level to them to teach at Saibei University.

As for students, they also reported to the department in charge of college student recommendation, asking them to individually test their chemistry proficiency when recommending students from the chemistry department.

If the level is too low, transfer to other majors.

All in all, chemistry students must choose the best among the best.

As for the teaching materials, they do not plan to use the original teaching materials.

The reason is also simple. The teaching materials before simplification are indeed too profound, while the teaching materials after simplification are really simple.

Therefore, they decided to rewrite a textbook that is more concise and effective and suitable for the students of Saibei University.

Ever since, Yang Yunzhao asked people to get dozens of textbooks from Oxford, Cambridge and other universities abroad, and then hoped to combine the advantages of these textbooks and rewrite the textbooks of Saibei University.

However, the problem came. When they went to great lengths to get these textbooks back from abroad, what they didn't expect was that they ran into trouble when trying to translate them into Chinese.

On the one hand, this is because every unit across the country is currently short of translation talents. Sometimes a good translator has to translate for more than a dozen units at the same time, and the tasks are scheduled for several years.

On the other hand, chemistry is a very professional subject after all. No matter how good the average translator is in English, they still cannot translate some professional terms and explanations.

And there is no room for mistakes in this thing. Once there is an error in the explanation of the textbook, it is really a mistake that is thousands of miles away!

In desperation, Yang Yunzhao could only rely on connections to find Deputy Director Guo of the Provincial Translation and Translation Bureau, hoping that he could find a suitable translator for him.

After some comparisons, Guo Huaiqing finally brought him to Zhou Yang.

After listening to Yang Yunzhao's explanation, Zhou Yang felt confident.

Then, he said to Guo Huaiqing: "Bureau Guo, our Translation and Compilation Bureau should have a lot of translation talents, why do you choose me to do this?"

Guo Huaiqing immediately said: "Our Provincial Translation and Translation Bureau currently has more than 300 registered translators, but there are definitely no more than 20 people who are capable of translating teaching materials. And among these 20 people, whether it is work efficiency or work quality, you

They are all top notch!”

"The most important thing is that I read the physics textbook you submitted for review some time ago, and the translation is really good, so I think this task is yours!"

Zhou Yang nodded and said, "Okay, I'll take over this task, but I want to take a long trip in the past few days, and I will translate for Director Yang when I get back!"

Hearing this, Yang Yunzhao said happily: "Thank you so much!"

But then, he said with some embarrassment: "Comrade Zhou Yang, school will start in one and a half months. Can you translate those basic textbooks before then?"

"How many?" Zhou Yang asked immediately.

"There are seven books in total, two from Oxford University, two from Cambridge, and the rest are from Harvard University!"

"There are so many, so I can only say that I try my best!"

Zhou Yang didn't dare to take over everything, after all, this thing was not a joke.

Although chemistry is his best subject and he is definitely good at translating it, the more basic things are, the less careless he can be.

What's more, seven textbooks need to be translated at once. If we calculate that each textbook has 100,000 words, then there are still 700,000 words.

If you agree to this but fail to complete it within a month and a half, it may not only delay other people's affairs, but also cause trouble for yourself.

"Okay! Comrade Zhou Yang, as long as you can successfully complete this task, we at Saibei University will be grateful!" Yang Yunzhao said solemnly.

Zhou Yang originally wanted to refuse a few words, but suddenly thought of something, so in the end his words turned into: "Hahaha, maybe I will really ask for Director Yang in the future, I hope you can come

Don’t refuse now!”

"Hahaha, how can I? As long as it does not violate party and government disciplines, I will never refuse!" Yang Yunzhao said with a smile.

"Okay, then the matter is settled!"
Chapter completed!