As a language bridge between Chinese and Western cultures, translation plays an important role in all walks of life, especially in the field of foreign trade. A few years ago, there was a story about an overseas engineering base. Foreigners want China to build a building for them. However, due to the translator's slip of the tongue, he mistranslated a preposition and regarded a tower as a well. This is an international joke. It can be seen that a qualified translator first needs to have qualified professional ability, that is, to be able to communicate accurately for both parties.
The translator we are going to talk about today is also a great translator, but he translated for Japanese devils during War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's time. Different from other hateful "traitors and running dogs translation", he made many outstanding contributions to the victory of the anti-Japanese war in his life. Through silent efforts and dedication, he successfully took off the hat of "Japanese lackeys" for himself.
Unfortunately, his glorious deeds were not known to future generations until after his death. Before that, that is to say, when he was alive, he was always regarded as a traitor and a big traitor by the people. He has always been regarded as a big traitor who only cares about the national interests and entertains himself by speaking some Japanese. Let's take a look at his suffocating compromise life.
This man's name is Xia, and he is also one of the earliest masters studying abroad in China. Because of his good performance during his study in Japan, he was chosen as their interpreter by senior Japanese officers, and the Japanese also asked him to lobby senior officials of the Kuomintang in China to realize the plot to peacefully subvert the Chinese nation. At that time, his mind was blinded by immediate interests and he stood on the wrong side. The first object that the Japanese wanted him to persuade was Li Zongren, but I didn't expect to be persuaded by Li Zongren's warm words in the end, but it was an agent who obtained Japanese information for the national counterattack.
Later, relying on Xia's eight-character tip-off, Li Zongren tested the Japanese army's marching route, thus decisively deploying troops to the north, annihilating the enemy's 3,000 people, and timely stopping the plot of the Japanese army to join forces with Taierzhuang. It can be said that without Xia's tip-off, nearly 300,000 China troops would face an extremely dangerous situation, and the battle of Taierzhuang would not go so smoothly.
Because Li Zongren and Xia have always been in single-line contact, until Xia died, no one knew his true identity, and he also took nothing when spying on Japanese intelligence for his country. He has been quietly lurking around the Japanese for many years, and he is in danger of losing his life at any time, but he has no complaints at all, which shows how ardent his patriotism is! It is no exaggeration to say that he is an anti-Japanese hero.
After the end of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Xia was forced to live in Japan and died of cerebral hemorrhage in 1978. According to his family, Xia helped many officials during the liberation war, which shows that he is worthy of being a passionate and loyal person who serves the country. The people will never forget this meritorious minister, and history will never forget this great revolutionary soldier! .