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Figures in interpreting Step 1. News English Step 2. Skills of Interpreting figures In the past few weeks, we have had some practice of interpreting, and sometimes we have to interpret numbers. How do u feel about figure interpreting? --- …. So u find figures are so uneasy to interpret that we make frequent mistakes about them; and at the same time figures are so important that we’d better not make any mistake. Why figures are vital in a speech? --- to show facts; esp. in business, any misinterpretation of figures may lead to a great loss of money for ur clients. So from today on we spend 2 weeks on the skills to interpret figures through a lot of practice. I believe when lectures are over, u will not feel so afraid of them. Figures include cardinal numbers基数, ordinal numbers序数, fraction分数, decimals小数, percentages百分数, rates and ratios比例比率, totals总数 and indefinite numbers不定数. Cardinal Numbers Interpreting cardinal numbers is the toughest. Even if the advanced interpreter interprets cardinal numbers, esp. the numbers over hundred thousand, he has to be much more careful, because mistakes of interpreting numbers will lead to bad effects. What makes it so difficult? ---- The different expressions of numbers in English and in Chinese. 英语数字分段法: from the last, there is a comma every 3 numbers, and every comma means a unit, thousand, million, billion or trillion. E.G: 2894569873= 2,894,569,873 第一段位：one ten hundred 第二段位：thousand ten thousand hundred thousand 第三段位：million ten million hundred thousand 第四段位：billion ten billion hundred thousand 第五段位：trillion 汉语数字分段法: from the last, there is an inverted comma every 4 numbers, and every inverted comma means a unit, 万,亿, or兆. E.G: 2894569873= 28’9456’9873 第一段位：个 十 百 千 第二段位：万 十万 百万 千万 第三段位：亿 十亿 百亿 千亿 第四段位：兆（万亿） 英汉数字对照排列 NUMBERS ENGLISH CHINESE 1 One 一 10 Ten 十 100 One hundred 一百 1, 000 One thousand 一千 10, 000 Ten th