口譯筆記的目的並不是把說話者的話語逐字逐句全部記錄下來，也不是速記的一種形式，而是寫下一些簡短的筆記，能夠讓你稍微看上一眼就能得出譯員對這段口頭對話的主旨的理解，並且將其用另一種不同的語言複述出來。
一. 地名簡寫
原詞 | 符號 | 原詞 | 符號 |
Korea | K | Sweden | SD |
Switzerland | SW | 東西南北中等方位 | “|－” |
the Republic of Korea (南朝鮮) | ROK “K” | the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea(北朝鮮) | DPRK “_K” |
Eastern Germany (東德) | “G|” | Western Europe (西歐) | “|EU” |
二. 貨幣簡寫
原詞 | 符號 | 原詞 | 符號 |
Sterling/pound | ￡ | US dollar | $ |
Renminbi/RMB | ￥ | Australian dollars | $A |
Austrian schillings | Sch | Canadian dollars | Can$ |
Eurodollar | € | New Zealand dollars | NZ$ |
Japanese yen | 円 |
三.時間簡寫
原詞 | 符號 | 原詞 | 符號 |
hour | hr | minute | ’ |
second | ’’ | morning | m |
afternoon | a | evening/night/tonight | n |
today | d | yesterday | .d |
the day before yesterday | ”d | tomorrow | d’ |
the day after tomorrow | d’ ’ | day by day/everyday | dd |
last night | ’n | nextmorning | m’ |
this week | w | the week before last | ”w |
Monday | 1w | Tuesday | 2w |
Wednesday | 3w | Thursday | 4w |
Friday | 5w | Saturday | 6w |
Sunday | 7w | this month | m |
January | 1m | February | 2m |
March | 3m | April | 4m |
May | 5m | June | 6m |
July | 7m | August | 8m |
September | 9m | October | 10m |
November | 11m | December | 12dm |
two month ago | .2m | this year | y |
two year later | y2. | 1949年前 | /49 |
1949年後 | 49/ | 1949年底 | 49 |
20年以後 | 20y| | century | C |
since/ever since | ┠ | uo to now/ until | ┫ |
四.度量衡
原詞 | 符號 | 原詞 | 符號 |
meter | m | inch | in. |
centimeter | cm | foot | ft |
minimeter | mm | knot | kt |
mile | mi | acre | A |
nautical mile | nm |
五. 縮略詞
原詞 | 符號 | 原詞 | 符號 |
Apartment | APT | Accountant | ACC |
According | ACDG | Accept | ACPT |
Advertisement | AD | Address | ADS |
aircraft | AC | at least | AL |
Advice | ADV | Approve | APV |
as soon as possible | ASAP | As much/many as possible | AMAP |
are | R | Amount | AMT |
Building | BLDG | Balance | BAL |
Cancel | CNCL | Conference | CNF |
carbon copy | cc | care of | c/o |
Conform | CFM | Commission | CMI |
Complete | CMP | Concern/concerning/concerned | CONC |
Condition | COND | Communication | CMU |
Compete/competitive | CMPE | Certificate | CERT |
Company | CO. | Departure | DPT |
Discount | DISC | Department | DEPT |
Extent | EXT | Exchange | EXCH |
Explain | EXPLN | Extra large | XL |
Final | FNT | Flight | FLT |
For your reference | FYR | Freight | FRT |
Guarantee | GUAR | Good | GD |
Home office | H.O. | Interested | INTST |
Information | INFO | important | IMP |
I owe you | IOU | In stead of | I/O |
In view of | IVO | Include | IINCD |
insurance | INS | Impossible | IMPS |
Individual | INDIV | Minimum | MIN |
Market | MKT | Manufacture | MANUF |
Message | MSG | manager | MGR |
Model | MDL | Memorandum | MEMO |
No later than | NLT | Necessary | NCRY |
Ordinary | ORD | Observe | OBS |
Obtain | OBT | Product | PROD |
Patent | PAT | Packing | PKG |
Please | PLS | People | PL |
Piece | PC | Position | POSN |
Possible | POSS(BL) | Quantity | QUTY |
Quality | QLTY | room | RM |
Regular | REGL | Representative | REP |
Reservation | RESN | Repeat | RPT |
Responsible | RESPON | receive | RCV |
Reference | REF | Situation | SITN |
Standard | STD | Section | SEC |
Though | THO | TGM | Telegraph |
Thanks | TKS | Telephone | TEL |
Trade | TRD | through | THRU |
Temporary | TEMP | Traffic | TRF |
Total | TTL | You | U |
Your | UR | Will | WL |
Week | WK | Weight | WT |
六.較長單詞的處理辦法
詞尾 | 縮寫 | 原詞 | 符號 |
-ism | m | socialism | Sm |
-tion | n | standardization (標準化) | stdn |
-cian | o | technician | techo |
-ing | g | marketing (市場營銷) | MKTg |
-ed | d | accepted | acptd |
-able/ible/ble | bl | available | avbl |
-ment | mt | amendment | amdmt |
-ize | z | recognize | regz |
-ful | fl | meaningful | mnfl |
七.字母、圖像、符號
原詞 | 符號 | 原詞 | 符號 |
people/person人 | ｏ右上角 | Janpanese日本人 | JPｏ |
Government/govern | C政府 | Governmental official | CZ |
Politics/political | P政治 | politician | PZ |
Efficient/effective | G效率 | inflation | Q通貨膨脹 |
victory,/win/success | V勝利 | Leader/head | T領導人 |
agriculture/agriculture | A農業 | business | B商業 |
conflict/confrontation | C×衝突/矛盾 | work/employ | W工作/職業 |
industry/industrial | i工業 | treaty/agreement | U合同/協議 |
bilateral(雙邊的) | U內填入2 | trilateral (三邊的) | U內填入3 |
Unilateralism(單邊主義) | U內填入1 | Multiple(多邊主義) | U內填入m |
談判破裂 | U上加一個“/” | country/state/nation | □國家/民族/領土 |
Import進口 | gO | outport出口 | Og |
chair/ host/preside over | Z主持/主辦 | Chairman/host | Z°主席、主持人 |
contact, exchanges: | ∞聯繫 | fishery | ∞捕魚業 |
head of government/ company | CT | international/worldwide/ global/universal | ○國際的/世界的'/全球的 |
as we all know/ as is known to all/as you have already heard of | EO聽到/衆所周之 | meeting/conference/negotiation /seminar/discussion/symposium | ⊙會議/開會 |
pleasant/joyful/happy/excited | J開心/高興/榮幸/好現象 | unsatisfied/discomfort/ angry/sad | L生氣/難過/悲傷/憂慮/不滿 |
indifferent/apathetic/unconcern/don’t care much | O漠不關心/ 無動於衷 | total/totally/entire/entirely/on the whole/all in all/to sum up | ∑總值/總數 |
go into/arrive at/give to/send to/present to | g→到達/傳達 | lead to/result in/in the direction of | →導致/引導 |
come/go back to/originate | ←追溯到 | be/come from/return/receive from | f←自於 |
launch/open/start | ↗發射/投放市場/發行 | develop/strengthen/promote/ boost,/improve/enhance | ↑發展/加強/推進 |
up/upward/rise/increase/ arise/ascend | h↑上升 | ups and downs/twists and turns/roller coaster | <<波折 |
submit to | ↓屈服 | exchange/mutual | n交流 |
a match /rival /competitor/ counterpart/against | VS對手 | many/lots of/a great deal of/a good many of/plus | +多/加之/加上/補充 |
more | ++/+2多的比較級 | most | +3多的最高級 |
little/few/lack/in short of/be in shortage of/minus | －少/減去/除去 | about/around/or so/approximately | ≈大約 |
bigger/larger/greater/more than/better than | >大於/多於/好於/優於 | less/smaller | <小於/少於/差於/劣於 |
superior to/surpass | ∧高 | inferior to | ∨低 |
among/within | ( )在...之間 | but yet however | ∧轉折 |
cross out/eliminate | /否定/消除 | question/issue | ?問題/疑惑/難題 |
wonder/miracle/pay attention to | ！驚歎/特別注意 | matchless/peerless | 無敵 |
say/speak/talk/marks/ announce/declare | :說/認爲/希望 | end/stop/halt/bring sth to a standstill/stop | ∥結束 |
right/good/famous/well-known | √對/正確/好的 | wrong/incorrect/something bad/notorious/negative | ×錯誤/失誤/壞 |
stand up for/support/ agree with sb/certain/ affirmative | Y同意 | not agree/disagree | N不同意 |
thought | *想法/重要的/優秀的 | important/best/outstanding/ brilliant | ☆重要的 |
very/extremely | __強調程度 | under the circumstance | ￣在…的條件/情況下 |
means/that is to say/in other words/the same as/be equal to | =即/等於/相當於/同等 | be different from | ≠不同/不等於/不相當/不是 |
and/together with/along with/accompany/along with/further more | &和/與 | belong to | ∈屬於 |
basis of/ perpendicular/ is perpendicular to | ⊥…的基礎 | therefore/so/as a result/ consequently | ∴所以/結果 |
because/because of/due to | ∵因爲/由於/多虧 | hear/listen | ○3聽說 |
about | ＠關於 | parallel | // |
water | H2O | for | 4 |
to | 2 | without | w/o |
with | w/ | plus or minus | ± |
times | x | so on, etc, and so forth | ··· |
divided by | ÷ | circle, circumference | ○ |
degree | ℃ | ellipse | 0 |
percent | % | diameter | θ |
per thousand | ‰ | triangle, delta | △ |
between | |.| | inside/ within/include/ among, | ( ) |
maintaining peace and stability: | ◎ | Empty | O |
as always/hold on,/persist/ insist on | ≡一直/總是/一貫 | pressure/influence | ⊥(豎線爲向下箭頭) |
On the other hand/or | /或者 | right angle | ∟ |
Representative/delegation/ delegation | △ | ocean/sea/river/lake/brook/ stream | ∽江河湖海水 |
hills/mountain | ω山 | climb the mountain | ω上加一點· |
山水之間 | ω∕∽ | before/beyond/in front of | ·| |
above/on/over | ～上加一點· | below/beneath/under | ～下加一點· |
table/desk/house/building/bed | ︹桌/凳/牀/樓/房 | 在椅子上 | ︹上加一短橫 |
在桌子下 | ︹下加一短橫 | look/ look after/ look into/investigate/witness | ⊙ |
資本主義 | 資’ | 四個現代化 | 4m |
peace-keeping | 維p | 第三世界 | 3w |
