Chapter 216

Tu Xian pedaled his bicycle very fast, shouting "give way" while rushing into the courtyard of the Chemical Engineering Department of Beijing Iron and Steel Institute.

Several students holding books and joking quickly occupied both sides and watched Tu Xian drag his car back to the office area. He got off with a difficult step and ran into the office.

"What's the matter?" Passing students are full of curiosity.

Tu Xian himself is more curious.

He held a letter in his hand. The envelope was wider than fat man's face. The front was full of tadpole characters, and the edge was wet with the sweat of Tu Xian's palm.

It's impossible not to be nervous. Although this is in Tu Xian's life, the biology major that has not yet been established in the Institute of iron and steel is not the same. There are only a few people who have switched to biology, but none of them have published papers in foreign journals. Go ahead, there are always a lot of concessions.

Tu Xian rubbed his hands and silently recited "God bless all over the sky" in his heart. He just tore open the envelope and couldn't wait to read it.

When Tu Xian was not in the mail room, he was worried about the bad results or his own gaffe.

Hiding in his laboratory and office, Tu Xian can express his excitement, disappointment and prayer to his heart's content.

The short letters were all in English. After stumbling on, Tu Xian saw the opinions of two reviewers

Revise the text!

Although the two reviewers have the same opinions, their comments are quite different. One of the reviewers simply said his judgment, while the other said a long paragraph, and then pointed out several major mistakes in his paper.

Tu Xian took a long breath and fell down on his chair, only to find that his back was soaked.

"It's not right to pass the amendment immediately..." Tu Xian smiles and worries.

His English level is very average. He has already asked for the help of an expert to write it as it is now. If he wants to revise it again, he has to find someone else again, which means he has to owe a lot of favor.

"If you owe it, you owe it." Tu Xian clenched his teeth, folded the letters and stuffed them into his briefcase. When he went out, he picked up his bicycle and went to the grocery store.

When he got there, Tu Xian took out all the money he had. A total of eight yuan and sixty cents, he bought two cans of luncheon meat. The rest of the money was just enough to buy two Jin of cakes.

Tu Xian carefully selected the pastry with complete appearance, watched the woman owner of the shop neatly tie it up with hemp paper and hemp rope, then took out the bag to buy vegetables and put it in, and then rode to the family building.

Nowadays, to visit relatives and friends, one or two catties of cake is a very valuable gift. Under normal circumstances, even if it is not empty handed, it is OK to carry a few cents of apple.

Canned meat can only be brought when asking for help. Canned braised meat with pure meat is too expensive and not affordable. Tu Xian bought lunch meat, which is also a cost.

Two minutes later, Tu Xian parked his car in the shed of the family area. With a cloth bag and a smile on his face, he walked through the small garden and came to the No. 35 gate. He knocked the door lock.

"Here we are." The sound of children running came immediately. When the door opened, a boy with high legs was looking at TU Xian and the cloth bag in his hand.

"Is Professor Lu in?" Tu Xian touched the child's head and handed him a piece of sugar.

The boy nodded hard and said, "grandfather is at home."

"Will you show me?" Tu Xian bent down to smile.

Professor Lu is a retired professor in the Institute of iron and steel. He once studied abroad. Because of his poor health, he was not reemployed after retirement and turned to be a translator. His translated works include not only metallurgical textbooks, but also literary works. He is recognized as a master of English in the Institute of iron and steel.

Tu Xian can only ask retired professors like Professor Lu for help. Other teachers have their own jobs and they are too busy to sleep every day. How can they ask others to help them change their essays.

Of course, it's not just Tu Xian who asked Professor Lu to change the article. Entering the living room, he saw another familiar face and said hello. Both of them looked down at the books they were carrying.

Time is precious. How can we waste it in meaningless chatting.

The publication of high-level papers is a rigid requirement of the higher authorities to the University, and also a rigid requirement of the university to the classrooms. How foreign science students view the level of Chinese scientific circles is also based on the level and quantity of papers published by Chinese scholars. As far as the current situation of China is concerned, the so-called high-level papers must be published in foreign journals.

Half of the teachers in Beijing Institute of iron and steel who want to publish their papers abroad but their English level is not good enough will come to find Professor Lu. People from other schools often appear, and Tu Xian has met his peers here more than once.After waiting for about a quarter of an hour, one of them came out of the study, said thanks with a smile, nodded to them and went out.

The middle-aged teacher in front of him got up quickly and said with a smile, "Professor Lu, I'm here again."

"Come in, come in." Professor Lu's voice was hoarse and did not show up.

Tu Xian raised his head and then waited outside.

This time, he waited half an hour to get in.

Professor Lu said "come in" with a smile. His thin body was sitting behind the big old desk, and his forehead was blocked by the lamp. From the door, it seemed that he was wearing a flower plume.

"Professor Lu, there's something wrong with the language. After thinking about it, I can only find you." Tu Xian put the cloth bag on the chest of drawers. There were already two bags there, probably left by the people in front of him.

Tu Xian thought for a moment, but he didn't take out the things in the bag. He sat down in front of the desk, put down his file bag, took out the letter sent to him by biochemistry system ecology, pushed it to Professor Lu, and said, "this is the letter sent back to me by the journal, asking me to modify the writing."

"Oh, let me see." After Professor Lu retired, he sat at home and worked every day, usually helping people to change things during the day. When he was free, he was very busy translating manuscripts. His family advised him several times, and when he insisted, it was up to him.

The reply was very short. Professor Lu finished reading it after scanning it.

Out of responsibility, he read it again and nodded: "Congratulations, Xiaotu. It seems that this article can be published."

"Yes, I don't know how to change the writing."

"Do you have the manuscript with you?"

"Yes."

"OK, you come to my side, I'll tell you..." Professor Lu took the manuscript and read it. He found a red pen from the pen holder and drew it.

Tu Xian read and wrote as if he were a student.

Tu Xian's original manuscript has more than 1000 words. Professor Lu helped to change some of them, and explained the rest. He let Tu Xian sit on the side and revise them himself.

Professor Lu himself saw that his change was fairly smooth, so he picked up the reply letter from the journal and read it.

After a while, Professor Lu suddenly said with a smile: "I guess this second reviewer is also a Chinese."

"Ah? Why? "

"Look at the grammar. Although it seems to be quite similar, the idiom is British and the grammar is American, which means that people from other countries are not English speaking. If you look at the paragraph structure again, is it very smooth?" Professor Lu has been working as a translator all the year round, and he also takes students with him. At this time, he takes the tone of investigation.

Tu Xian nodded slowly and said, "it's very smooth."

Professor Lu said with a smile, "you are smooth because the paragraph structure is Chinese. On the contrary, what foreigners write is not so smooth. So the second reviewer is probably a Chinese. "

Tu Xian was stunned for a moment, then turned to smile and said, "I didn't expect that I bumped into my own hands. No wonder his comments are so detailed."

"Well, it's serious. However, it's not necessarily from the mainland. It's also possible for Hong Kong and Taiwan compatriots. If you want to know, just ask. Although they are anonymous, there should not be many reviewers in Asia for the Journal of Biochemistry and ecosystem. "

The speaker has no intention, the listener has intention. Professor Lu just said it casually, but Tu Xian kept it in mind.

He works alone in the iron and Steel Institute. He always goes to other schools when he wants to get help from his biological peers. Since they are not familiar with each other, it seems a good choice to find a reviewer of high-end journals to chat with.

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