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Unit 3 Launching Ceremony Objectives After reading this unit, you should understand what notes to take and how to take notes in interpreting. find ways to improve your interpreting skills and performance. master the basic words and expressions about marketing and promotion. know some cultural background knowledge about marketing and promotion. Interpreting Skills Note Taking A key skill that is involved in interpreting and deserves our foremost attention is note taking, as few interpreters can memorize a segment of speech delivered longer than one minute without some loss of information. Note taking is an indispensable（不可或缺的）tool for interpreters in consecutive interpreting and it helps interpreters reproduce the original speech accurately. an Aid and an Evil 1. An Aid It is easy for an interpreter to speak from their memory when the speaker pauses after every one or two sentences. But if the speaker keeps speaking for 5 or even 10 minutes without any pauses, the interpreter can hardly expect to remember all the details that are mentioned. This is particularly true in cases where the speaker abruptly refers to a long series of figures or a long list of names. It is obvious that, without the help of notes, one can hardly avoid misinterpreting or leaving out important information. In these cases, note taking does play a decisive role in interpreting. Nothing but notes can help an interpreter overcome the limitation of human memory. Interpreters take notes for two major purposes. First, notes can aid memory. Some elements in a speech cannot be recalled merely on the basis of memory. Second, notes can represent the structure of a speech. Written notes, even when brief in content, can clearly indicate how ideas are related to or separated from one another, which helps interpreters reproduce the structure and message accurately. 2. An Evil However, for many interpreters, note taking is said to be a necessary evil（必要之恶）. It is regarded as an evil because i