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翻译这个职业，对很多语言学习者而言，似乎是一条不错的出路。 Luke asks: I am an ordinary translator from a university not famous. For this career, I don’t know its prospect. I am not that excellent I think, and when getting older, is it fit for people to translate? What is the way ahead? How to develop the career of a translator, or what to do next?! My comments: First of all, you seem to have something against being an ordinary translator and having graduated from a university not famous. So for starters, let me make this perfectly clear: It’s great to be ordinary – that way you don’t have to face extra-ordinary problems extraordinary people face. It’s great, for example, to have graduated from a university not famous. You see, people often mistake famous with being good. And had you graduated from Bei Da, for example and had you been any good at work at all, Bei Da will take all the credit. They’d say: “Oh, it’s nothing. Luke’s nothing special. He’s from Bei Da. Anyone from Bei Da is supposed to have done what he did.” On the other hand, your coming from a “university not famous” gives you an advantage. For example, should you become any good (which I believe you shall as should anyone equally ordinary) they’d give the credit to you. People would say: “Luke’s extraordinary. He’s from this what’s-its-name, a university unbeknownst to anyone and yet he’s turned into one of greatest translators we’ve ever seen.” | 
