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Book SynopsisThis volume is about computers and translation. It is not, however, a Computer Science book, nor does it have much to say about Translation Theory. Rather it is a book for translators and other professional linguists (technical writers, bilingual secretaries, language teachers even), which aims at clarifying, explaining and exemplifying the impact that computers have had and are having on their profession. It is about Machine Translation (MT), but it is also about Computer-Aided (or -Assisted) Translation (CAT), computer-based resources for translators, the past, present and future of translation and the computer.The editor and main contributor, Harold Somers, is Professor of Language Engineering at UMIST (Manchester). With over 25 years’ experience in the field both as a researcher and educator, Somers is editor of one of the field’s premier journals, and has written extensively on the subject, including the field’s most widely quoted textbook on MT, now out of print and somewhat out of date.The current volume aims to provide an accessible yet not overwhelmingly technical book aimed primarily at translators and other users of CAT software.Table of Contents1. List of figures; 2. List of tables; 3. List of contributors; 4. 1. Introduction (by Somers, Harold); 5. 2. The translator's workstation (by Somers, Harold); 6. 3. Translation memory systems (by Somers, Harold); 7. 4. Terminology tools for translators (by Bowker, Lynne); 8. 5. Localisation and translation (by Esselink, Bert); 9. 6. Translation technologies and minority languages (by Somers, Harold); 10. 7. Corpora and the translator (by Laviosa, Sara); 11. 8. Why translation is difficult for computers (by Arnold, Doug); 12. 9. The relevance of linguistics for machine translation (by Bennett, Paul); 13. 10. Commercial systems: The state of the art (by Hutchins, W. John); 14. 11. Inside commercial machine translation (by Bennett, Winfield Scott); 15. 12. Going live on the internet (by Yang, Jin); 16. 13. How to evaluate machine translation (by White, John S.); 17. 14. Controlled language for authoring and translation (by Nyberg, Eric); 18. 15. Sublanguage (by Somers, Harold); 19. 16. Post-editing (by Allen, Jeffrey H.); 20. 17. Machine translation in the classroom (by Somers, Harold); 21. Index

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Book SynopsisThis CD-rom and the accompanying handbook attack many of the most crucial difficulties encountered by both native and non-native English speakers when translating scientific and engineering material from German.The CD-rom is like a miniature encyclopaedia dealing with the fundamental conceptual basis of science, engineering and mathematics, with particular regard to terminology. It provides didactically organised dictionaries, thesauri and a wide range of microglossaries highlighting polysemy, homonymy, hyponymy, context, collocation, usage as well as grammatical, lexical and semantic considerations essential to accurate translation. It also supplies a wide variety of reference material and illustrations useful to self-taught professional technical translators, translator trainers at universities, and especially to student translators.All the main branches of industrial technology are examined, such as mechanical, electrical, electronic, chemical, nuclear engineering, and fundamental terminologies are provided for a broad range of important subfields: automotive engineering, plastics, computer systems, construction technology, aircraft, machine tools.The handbook provides a useful introduction to the CD-Rom, enabling readers proficient in two languages to acquire the basic skills necessary for technical translation by familiarity with fundamental engineering conceptions themselves.Table of Contents1. Acknowledgements; 2. Preface; 3. Introduction; 4. User Guide; 5. 1. Access facilities; 6. 2. Basic Mechanics; 7. 3. Basic Electricity; 8. 5. Materials Science; 9. 6. Nucleonics; 10. 7. Lexical Interpretation; 11. 8. Automotive Engineering; 12. 9. Mechanical Engineering; 13. 10. Technical Polyseme Dictionary; 14. 11. Chemical Engineering; 15. 12. Electronics; 16. 13. Technical Grammar; 17. 14. Technical Thesaurus; 18. 15. Electrical Sciences; 19. 16. Mechanical Sciences; 20. 17. Technical Collocation Dictionary; 21. 18. Computer Engineering; 22. 19. Error Analysis; 23. 20. Concept Analysis; 24. 21. Mathematics; 25. 22. Specific Expression; 26. 23. Non-Technical Specialised Language; 27. 24. Translator Education; 28. Bibliography; 29. Appendix 1: Approach Survey; 30. Appendix 2: American-English Survey; 31. Appendix 3: Overall Survey; 32. Index

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Book SynopsisA practical guide to translation as a profession, this book provides everything translators need to know, from digital equipment to translation techniques, dictionaries in over seventy languages, and sources of translation work. It is the premier sourcebook for all linguists, used by both beginners and veterans, and its predecessor, The Translator’s Handbook, has been praised by some of the world’s leading translators, such as Gregory Rabassa and Marina Orellana.Trade ReviewPRAISE FOR THE TRANSLATOR'S HANDBOOK The Translator’s Handbook serves as a superbly practical guide to the translation profession. . . . [It] shows how to develop your own language and writing skills in the translation field, create your own base of professional translation tools, and sell your services, . . . and [it lists] many hundreds of sources of translation work in today’s global economy and multinational corporations, governmental agencies, and nonprofit organizations. * Midwest Book Review *PRAISE FOR THE TRANSLATOR'S HANDBOOK . . . [J]ust about the most thoroughgoing manual I have seen in many a moon. -- Gregory Rabassa, Distinguished Professor, Queens College and The Graduate School, CUNYPRAISE FOR THE TRANSLATOR'S HANDBOOK Very well conceived . . . excellent, useful, and beautiful -- Marina OrellanaTranslation is more than turning "perro" into "dog". "The Global Translator's Handbook" analyzes the principles of translation as Morry Sofer advises both current and aspiring translators to help them better understand language between cultures and how to foster that comprehension. With resources and references recommended for further translation understanding, Sofer touches on recent developments in technology and new media, and how translation is best applied to them. "The Global Translator's Handbook" is a must for any linguist who wants to better apply their language skills to translation be it for career or other purpose. * Midwest Book Review *This book could have a home in careers libraries or in US public libraries. * s *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Warning-Disclaimer Welcome! Introduction How to Get the Most Out of This Handbook Chapter 1: The Uses of This Handbook Chapter 2: Historical Overview of Translation Chapter 3: Requisites for Professional Translators Chapter 4: Translator’s Self-Evaluation Chapter 5: Translation Problems Chapter 6: Translation Techniques Chapter 7: Translation, Computers, and the Internet Chapter 8: Dictionaries, Reference Literature, and Terminology Management Chapter 9: Key Translation Areas Chapter 10: How to Operate Successfully as a Freelance Translator Chapter 11: Sources of Translation Work Chapter 12: A Career as an In-House Translator Chapter 13: Training Programs Chapter 14: Oral Interpretation Chapter 15: Translators’ Organizations Chapter 16: Translation: A Lifelong Career Appendix 1: Dictionaries and Reference Literature Appendix 2: Where to Find Dictionaries Appendix 3: Foreign-Language Software Sources Appendix 4: Sources of Translation Work Appendix 5: Translation Courses and Programs Appendix 6: Translator Organizations Appendix 7: Translator Accreditation Appendix 8: Professional Periodicals for Translators Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn this volume, James Robson provides a foundational analysis of the Hebrew text of Deuteronomy 1â11. Distinguished by the detailed yet comprehensive attention paid to the Hebrew text, Deuteronomy 1â11 is a convenient pedagogical and reference tool that explains the form and syntax of the biblical text, offers guidance for deciding between competing semantic analyses, engages important text-critical debates, and addresses questions relating to the Hebrew text that are frequently overlooked or ignored by standard commentaries. Beyond serving as a succinct and accessible analytic key, Deuteronomy 1â11 also reflects the most recent advances in scholarship on Hebrew grammar and linguistics. By filling the gap between popular and technical commentaries, the handbook becomes an indispensable tool for anyone committed to a deep reading of the biblical text.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Mosesâ First Address: 1:1â4:49 Deuteronomy 1:1-5 Deuteronomy 1:6-8 Deuteronomy 1:9-18 Deuteronomy 1:19-25 Deuteronomy 1:26-33 Deuteronomy 1:34-40 Deuteronomy 1:41â2:1 Deuteronomy 2:2-8a Deuteronomy 2:8b-15 Deuteronomy 2:16-25 Deuteronomy 2:26-37 Deuteronomy 3:1-7 Deuteronomy 3:8-17 Deuteronomy 3:18-22 Deuteronomy 3:23-29 Deuteronomy 4:1-8 Deuteronomy 4:9-14 Deuteronomy 4:15-22 Deuteronomy 4:23-31 Deuteronomy 4:32-40 Deuteronomy 4:41-43 Deuteronomy 4:44-49 Mosesâ Second Address: 5:1â11:32 (26:19) Deuteronomy 5:1-5 Deuteronomy 5:6-21 Deuteronomy 5:22-33 Deuteronomy 6:1-3 Deuteronomy 6:4-9 Deuteronomy 6:10-19 Deuteronomy 6:20-25 Deuteronomy 7:1-6a Deuteronomy 7:6b-11 Deuteronomy 7:12-16 Deuteronomy 7:17-24 Deuteronomy 7:25-26 Deuteronomy 8:1-10 Deuteronomy 8:11-20 Deuteronomy 9:1-6 Deuteronomy 9:7-24 Deuteronomy 9:25-29 Deuteronomy 10:1-11 Deuteronomy 10:12â11:1 Deuteronomy 11:2-9 Deuteronomy 11:10-12 Deuteronomy 11:13-17 Deuteronomy 11:18-21 Deuteronomy 11:22-25 Deuteronomy 11:26-32 Glossary Works Cited Author Index Subject Index

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Book SynopsisAn Introduction to Old Occitan is the only textbook in print for learning the language used by the troubadours in southern France during the Middle Ages. Each of the thirty-two chapters discusses a subject in the study of the language (e.g., stressed vowels, subjunctive mood) and includes an exercise based on a reading of an Occitan text that has been edited afresh for this volume. An essential glossary analyzes every occurrence of every word in the readings and gives cognates in other Romance languages as well as the source of each word in Latin or other languages. The book also contains a list of prefixes, infixes, and suffixes and a dictionary of proper names. An accompanying compact disc includes discussion of the pronunciation of the language, with illustrations from the texts in the book, and musical performances by Elizabeth Aubrey, of the University of Iowa.

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Book SynopsisThis unique textbook teaches the Old English language, pairing grammatical instruction with Old English passages from historical and literary documents in chronological order and provides a summary of major events. Fifty lessons present translation passages from the Peterborough manuscript of the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle," Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, the Alfredian translation of the Universal History of Paulus Orosius, and other prose and poetic texts. Supplementary sections in each lesson provide additional lexical, historical, literary, and cultural information relevant to the translation passages, and the lessons are reinforced by brief exercises and advanced translation sentences. A section of twenty-six advanced readings features a generous assortment of poetry, including passages from Beowulf, The Wanderer, The Dream of the Rood, and The Wife's Lament. The book concludes with a thorough grammatical appendix as well as glossaries of linguistic terms, proper names, and Old English words.Trade ReviewThis is a superb, innovative textbook that lays claim to an original approach and pedagogy as well as a comprehensiveness that other introductory readers and textbooks for Old English lack. Its coverage of the language for students of all levels is impressive." - Andrew Scheil, University of Minnesota

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Book SynopsisAuthor Evan Maina Mwangi explores the intersection of translation, sexuality, and cosmopolitan ethics in African literature. Usually seen as the preserve of literature published by Euro-American metropolitan outlets for Western consumption, cultural translation is also a recurrent theme in postcolonial African texts produced primarily for local circulation and sometimes in African languages. Mwangi illustrates how such texts allude to various forms of translation to depict the ethical relations to foreigners and the powerless, including sexual minorities. He also explains the popularity of uent models of translation in African literature, regardless of the energetic critique of such models by Western-based postcolonial theorists. While bringing to the foreground texts that have received little critical attention in African literary studies, Translation in African Contexts engages a wide range of foundational and postcolonial translation theorists. It considers a rich variety of works, including East African translations of Shakespeare, writings by Ng?g? wa Thiong’o and Gakaara wa Wanja?, a popular novel by Charles Mangua, and a stage adaptation by the Tanzanian playwright Amandina Lihamba, among others.

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Book SynopsisEssays exploring the effect of time on translation studies.This volume brings together 12 essays on the relation between temporality and translation, engaging in both theoretical reflection and consideration of concrete case studies. The essays can be read independently, but three major themes run through them and facilitate a discussion about the many ways in which the theoretical and practical consideration of temporality may provide new insights and research directions for translation studies.The first main theme is temporal metaphors for translation. Why do so few metaphors that describe translation relate to time? How have the few metaphors relating to time that have been used impacted the development of the field? What new metaphors might be useful?The second theme is the relation between translation and modernity as a new experience of temporality. In China, as in many countries outside Europe, the passage to modernity has been inextricably bound up in the act of translation, either of European texts into Chinese as a way of "importing" modernity or the translation of Chinese texts into European languages as a gauge of quality and a sign that China has become modern.Third is the translation of temporality and the competing temporalities of source and target texts. How are the nuances of temporality translated, and how do any shifts that occur affect the meaning of the translation? Different cultures have different concepts of time; Nida famously gave the example of a South American language where the past is seen as existing in front of a person while the future is behind them, because they know ("see") the past but cannot know the future. Several essays engage with these and related issues.

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Book SynopsisIn seven essays, this book offers a tour de force through those seven disciplines in the humanities that lately underwent a fundamental transformation. In order to apply “exact” scientific methods, these disciplines turned away from their very subjects— the understanding of the relationship or a dialogue that underlies the phenomena they are supposed to investigate. The revisionist approach in this book, based on Mikhail Bakhtin’s work, traces the search for common and specific grounds of the humanities, beginning with psychologism through hermeneutics and semiotics up to the present state of self-annihilation. As an alternative, the book seeks to define humanities as the examination of relationships, which offers an array of refreshing perspectives on each field discussed.Trade Review“This engaging volume offers seven chapters with different perspectives on the ‘dialogic’ in the humanities, taking Mikhail Bakhtin’s formulation and testing it from the perspective of seven different disciplines within the humanities. … This is a thought-provoking read for anyone working in the humanities now, although it does expect a reasonable degree of familiarity with Bakhtin, and it creates a strong argument for defining the humanities in terms of the relational and the dialogic.” —Forum for Modern Language Studies, Vol. 55, No. 2 * Forum for Modern Language Studies *Table of ContentsIntroductionMatthias Freise Internal Dialogism of Russian Postmodern Literature – Polyphony or Schizophrenia?Maria AndrianovaBetween Socrates and the Stranger: How Dialogic Are Plato’s Dialogues?Kryštof BoháčekDialogic Method in Literary HistoryMatthias FreiseTowards a Dialogical SociologyMichał KaczmarczykDiscourses in the Design of Cultural ArtifactsKlaus KrippendorffAttachment Patterns in the Bi-personal FieldReinhard PlassmannVoices in Image. A Methodological and Theoretical Approach to the Dialogic Image of the Other with the European Image of China as an ExampleXiaojing WangList of Contributors

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Book SynopsisIn 1495, the Spanish humanist Antonio de Nebrija published a Spanish-to-Latin dictionary that became a best seller. Over the next century it was revised dozens of times, in nine European cities. As these dictionaries made their way around the globe in this age of encounters, their lists of Spanish words became frameworks for dictionaries of non-Latin languages. What began as Spanish to Latin became Spanish to Arabic, French, English, Tuscan, Nahuatl, Mayan, Quechua, Aymara, Tagalog, and more.Tracing the global influence of Nebrija's dictionary, Byron Ellsworth Hamann, in this interdisciplinary, deeply researched book, connects pagan Rome, Muslim Spain, Aztec Tenochtitlan, Elizabethan England, the Spanish Philippines, and beyond, revealing new connections in world history. The Translations of Nebrija re-creates the travels of people, books, and ideas throughout the early modern world and reveals the adaptability of Nebrija's text, tracing the ways heirs and pirate printers altered the dictionary in the decades after its first publication. It reveals how entries in various editions were expanded to accommodate new concepts, such as for indigenous languages in the Americas -- a process with profound implications for understanding pre-Hispanic art, architecture, and writing. It shows how words written in the margins of surviving dictionaries from the Americas shed light on the writing and researching of dictionaries across the early modern world.Exploring words and the dictionaries that made sense of them, this book charts new global connections and challenges many assumptions about the early modern world.

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Book SynopsisDuring the Cold War, determined translators and publishers based in the Soviet Union worked together to increase the number of foreign literary texts available in Russian, despite fluctuating government restrictions. Based on extensive interviews with literary translators, Made Under Pressure offers an insider's look at Soviet censorship and the role translators played in promoting foreign authors - including figures like John Fowles, George Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut, Gabriel García Márquez, and William Faulkner.Natalia Kamovnikova chronicles the literary translation process from the selection of foreign literary works to their translation, censorship, final approval, and publication. Interviews with Soviet translators of this era provide insight into how the creative work of translating and the practical work of publishing were undertaken within a politically restricted environment, and recall the bonds of community and collaboration that they developed.

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Book Synopsis"Translation is like a reverse-engineering process -- whereby, say, we might take apart a clock made of metal parts in order to build a functioning replica made entirely of plastic. Our final product will not look the same as the original clock, and it would be impossible to simply copy the designs of its inner workings, because plastic and metals have very different properties. For example, we cannot make small plastic springs or very thin gears of plastic. But these changes do not matter; the only thing that matters is that our replica will tell the time correctly." -- From the Introduction The Georgetown Guide to Arabic-English Translation is an essential step-by-step, practical manual for advanced learners of Arabic interested in how to analyze and accurately translate nonfiction Arabic texts ranging from business correspondence to textbooks. Mustafa Mughazy, a respected Arabic linguist, presents an innovative, functional approach that de-emphasizes word-for-word translation. Based on the Optimality Theory, it favors remaining faithful to the communicative function of the source material, even if this means adding explanatory text, reconfiguring sentences, paraphrasing expressions, or omitting words. From how to select a text for translation or maintain tense or idiom, to how to establish translation patterns, The Georgetown Guide to Arabic-English Translation is useful both as a textbook and a reference. An invaluable set of appendices offers shortcuts to translate particularly difficult language like abbreviations, collocations, and common expressions in business correspondence, while authentic annotated texts provide the reader opportunities to practice the strategies presented in the book. A must-read for advanced learners of Arabic, this is a book every scholar and graduate-level student will wish to own.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Who Needs a Manual for Arabic-EnglishTranslation Anyway? 1. Getting Words Across: Word-Level Translation Problems and Strategies 2. Putting Words Together: Phrase-Level Translation Problems and Strategies3. Inside the Sentence: Functional Categories4. The Sentence and Beyond: Discourse and Genre Features Annotated Texts for Translation Answer Key AppendixesA Arabic AbbreviationsB Conjunctive Frozen ExpressionsC Adverbial Frozen ExpressionsD Exocentric CompoundsE Noun-Adjective CollocationsF Verb-Object CollocationsG Light VerbsH Common Expressions in Business Correspondence Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis"Translation is like a reverse-engineering process -- whereby, say, we might take apart a clock made of metal parts in order to build a functioning replica made entirely of plastic. Our final product will not look the same as the original clock, and it would be impossible to simply copy the designs of its inner workings, because plastic and metals have very different properties. For example, we cannot make small plastic springs or very thin gears of plastic. But these changes do not matter; the only thing that matters is that our replica will tell the time correctly." -- From the Introduction The Georgetown Guide to Arabic-English Translation is an essential step-by-step, practical manual for advanced learners of Arabic interested in how to analyze and accurately translate nonfiction Arabic texts ranging from business correspondence to textbooks. Mustafa Mughazy, a respected Arabic linguist, presents an innovative, functional approach that de-emphasizes word-for-word translation. Based on the Optimality Theory, it favors remaining faithful to the communicative function of the source material, even if this means adding explanatory text, reconfiguring sentences, paraphrasing expressions, or omitting words. From how to select a text for translation or maintain tense or idiom, to how to establish translation patterns, The Georgetown Guide to Arabic-English Translation is useful both as a textbook and a reference. An invaluable set of appendices offers shortcuts to translate particularly difficult language like abbreviations, collocations, and common expressions in business correspondence, while authentic annotated texts provide the reader opportunities to practice the strategies presented in the book. A must-read for advanced learners of Arabic, this is a book every scholar and graduate-level student will wish to own.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Who Needs a Manual for Arabic-EnglishTranslation Anyway? 1. Getting Words Across: Word-Level Translation Problems and Strategies 2. Putting Words Together: Phrase-Level Translation Problems and Strategies3. Inside the Sentence: Functional Categories4. The Sentence and Beyond: Discourse and Genre Features Annotated Texts for Translation Answer Key AppendixesA Arabic AbbreviationsB Conjunctive Frozen ExpressionsC Adverbial Frozen ExpressionsD Exocentric CompoundsE Noun-Adjective CollocationsF Verb-Object CollocationsG Light VerbsH Common Expressions in Business Correspondence Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe book investigates the impact of grammatical differences on English-Mandarin Chinese simultaneous interpreting (SI) by drawing upon an empirical study of professional and student interpreters. It focuses on the effects of three English grammatical categories including passives, adverbials and noun phrases and of three Mandarin Chinese grammatical categories including co-verb phrases, noun phrases and topic-prominent clauses on SI between the two languages. For each category, interpretations of instances in which the grammatical structures are the same across the two languages are compared with interpretations of instances in which the grammatical structures differ across the two languages in terms of shortcomings in the accuracy of content such as errors, omissions, substitutions and factors affecting appropriateness of delivery such as grammatical errors, corrections and complete omissions. The results indicate that grammatical differences have a statistically significant impact on the interpreting performance of both professionals and students, although the impact of expertise is also attested through the consistently better performance of professionals than of students. This book also focuses on the implications of this research for interpreting teaching and training by referring to the most suitable interpreting model, the detailed contrastive analysis of Mandarin Chinese and English, and the comprehensive empirical data of both professionals and students. The study significantly enhances the understanding of the impact of linguistic differences between languages on SI between them, and emphasizes that language-related strategies are a necessary part of interpreting teaching and training.Table of ContentsPreface – Acknowledgements – List of Figures and Tables – List of Abbreviations – Introduction – Simultaneous Interpreting—Effort Model, Features and Factors – Grammatical Differences and SI – Chinese-English Grammatical Differences – Empirical Study – Data Analysis and Discussions – Contribution and Significance – Pre-experiment questionnaire – Post-experiment questionnaire – English ST – Chinese ST – ST Analysis (English Adverbials) – Output Analysis (English Adverbials) – Data Manipulation before SPSS Entry – SPSS Entry, Calculation and Output.

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Book SynopsisThis book is a collection of philosophical, poetic and practical essays that question the dominant image of education we have all inherited, and provides encouragement, commiserations and examples of a more ecologically sound understanding of the living disciplines of knowledge entrusted to teachers and students in school.

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Book SynopsisThis book is a collection of philosophical, poetic and practical essays that question the dominant image of education we have all inherited, and provides encouragement, commiserations and examples of a more ecologically sound understanding of the living disciplines of knowledge entrusted to teachers and students in school.

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