校对/审需要怎样的资格?此例的"校"并不添花

THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE (2)

The Bermuda Triangle, which is sometimes called ‘The Graveyard of the Atlantic’, is one of the greatest mysteries of the world. This is an area of the Western Atlantic between Bermuda and Florida, almost triangular in shape, where at least a hundred ships and planes and over a thousand people have disappeared since 1945. No wreckage has ever been discovered in the area; that is no bodies, life boats or any other evidence of disaster have been found. It is as if these planes, ships and people had never existed. In some cases a normal radio message was sent from the airplane reporting that everything was fine. Then, a few minutes later, the radio seemed to break down. In others, a weak S.O.S message was received but the airplane disappeared before ships or other airplanes could be sent to help. Sometimes in prefect weather, there were strange references to fog and loss of direction. In the extraordinary case of five U.S. navy planes which disappeared on a regular flight from Florida, the rescue plane sent to find them also disappeared. A strange white light is a characteristic of the sea in this area. It is interesting to know that not only was this light observed by the astronauts on their way to space, but it was also seen by Columbus over four hundred years ago. It is not yet known if this light has any connection with the strange disappearances.

Many theories have been suggested to explain all these mysterious happenings in the Bermuda Triangle. Some people believe that they are caused by activity from outer space. Others think that they are caused by some undiscovered source of energy or by some dimensions of time or space which is not known by Man. There is no answer yet, but scientists are working hard to find one.

ysun wrote:

挑错



我同意 Steve 的上述意见。而且，我也认为错误不止10个。我同意 nigerose 所指出的9个（蓝色所示）。但下面这一句，我认为从语法上讲并非不可以接受：
No wreckage has been found, （no bodies, no life-belts or other evidence of disaster）.

另外，我认为还有其它4处错误（红色所示，括弧内是我的修改意见）。欢迎批评指正。



[Edited at 2009-05-04 21:15 GMT]

ysun wrote:

Today, I found an article about Bermuda Triangle at
http://www.scribd.com/doc/12474147/Reader-at-Work2

Please scroll down to page 146 to read the article THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE (2). We can compare this article with the test text redred provided. I believe that the author of the test text just made modifications based on a similar article, but created more than 10 errors in the text although he didn’t realize the fact himself.

wherestip wrote:

不知 1845 算不算一个错?

An area of the Western Atlantic between Bermuda and Florida where ships and planes are said to have vanished without a trace. During the late 1960s, inspired largely by the volume by Vincent Gaddis, Invisible Horizons: True Mysteries of the Sea (1965), a popular controversy erupted around claims that since 1945 over 100 ships and planes and more than 1,000 people have disappeared in the Bermuda triangle.

Deliberate acts of destruction

Deliberate acts of destruction can fall into two categories: acts of war, and acts of piracy. Records in enemy files have been checked for numerous losses; while many sinkings have been attributed to surface raiders or submarines during the World Wars and documented in the various command log books, many others which have been suspected as falling in that category have not been proven. It is suspected that the loss of USS Cyclops in 1918, as well as her sister ships Proteus and Nereus in World War II, were attributed to submarines, but no such link has been found in the German records.

ysun wrote:


One more thing I’d like to mention is that, although “no bodies, no life-belts or any other evidence of disaster” may be grammatically acceptable, finding any "life-belts", not "life boats", in the Bermuda Triangle is logically ridiculous because it would be as difficult as “大海捞针".

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/life%20belt

1 chiefly British : a life preserver in the form of a buoyant belt

lai an wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifebuoy

To me, it's a 'life ring' - the sort that you have, or used to have on boats.

ysun wrote:

Steve and Lesley,

Thanks for the links about the life-belts and the like. What I was trying to say is that the life-belts are too small to be spotted from a distance by searching crews on rescue ships or airplanes. The fabricator of the exam may have accidently changed "life boats" into "life-belts" when he extracted the text from a similar article about the Bermuda Triangle.

Eyesight: The bald eagle's eyesight is five to six times sharper than a human's.

wherestip wrote:



Thanks, Lesley. I think over here people typically call that a "life preserver". Of course some may refer to it as a "life buoy" or "life ring".

http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/life_preserver.aspx

http://www.ssnautical.com/?gclid=CNugrsbQsZoCFRINDQodSxwubg