Repository

Github: https://github.com/nodejs/i18n

Crowdin link: https://crowdin.com/project/nodejs

Simplified Chinese page: https://crowdin.com/project/nodejs/zh-CN#

Project Details

Node.js® is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.

Node.js is a free, cross-platform, open source server environment to execute JavaScript outside of a browser. Traditionally, JavaScript is used for client side scripting and runs by a JavaScript engine embedded within a browser. With Node.js, JavaScript can be used to write command line programs or server side scripting. By this way, developers only need to learn a single programming language to do both server side and client side programming.

Node.js is built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript execution engine which was initially built for Google Chrome. Instead of interpreting JavaScript in real time, V8 compiles JavaScript code to native binary machine code to improve the performance. Node.js has an event driven architecture which makes it suitable for web applications with many I/O operations. That is why Node.js is very fast compared to similar technologies. libuv is used to handle asynchronous events across operating systems.

Contribution Specifications

I have used Node.js in a few small projects but never got a chance to see a whole picture of this amazing and popular framework. I am very exciting to start translating Node.js and very looking forward to my new learning journey!

Translation overview

The whole project consists of 1,048,272 words. victory622 has started working on this project. Since this project is extremely large therefore collaborations are required. I will be concentrating on the translation of v8.x folder which has 353,483 words to translate.

This submission

In this submission, I have finished the zlib module and started working on vm module. My focus was still on choosing the right words and making sure the translation is easy to read and understand by Chinese readers. Here are a couple of examples:

The source string is:

They are documented so that their presence is not surprising.

My translation is:

他们在文档中被记录，这样读者对于它们的存在不会觉得奇怪。

I have to add ‘读者’ to make the translation fluent in Chinese.

In the second example, it requires some background knowledge of the context. The source string is:

So, this is another factor that affects the speed, at the cost of memory usage.

My translation is:

因此，这是影响速度的另一个因素，其代价是更多内存的使用。

The word by word translation should be ‘......其代价是内存的使用。’. However, it is not clear and misleading because memory is used anyway. Therefore, I have added ‘更多’ before ‘内存的使用’ because the source string does mean that.

Languages

I translate Node.js from English to Simplified Chinese.

Word Count

Regarding the number of words, this is my 17th contribution to Node.js project and I have translated 1159 words in zlib and vm module in this submission.

Before:

311 words in “zlib.md”
0 word in “vm.md”

After:

1361 words in “zlib.md”
109 words in “vm.md”

Total: (1361-311)+109 = 1159 words

Proof of Authorship

My translation activities can be viewed in my Crowdin profile: https://crowdin.com/profile/aafeng/activity

• utopian-io
• translations