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Months later, senior management investigated why the project had flopped, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. “It all traced back to this one word,” says Chia Suan Chong, a UK-based communications skills and intercultural trainer, who didn't reveal the tricky word because it is highly industry-specific and posibly identifiable. “Things spiraled out of control bucause both parties were thinking the opposite.”

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理清逻辑：① Months later, senior management investigated why the project had flopped, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars.乍看之下，这个句子在理解上没有难点，但需准确把握其中的逻辑关系培训师英语，找准是什么costing hundreds of thousands of dollars。此外，management一词不能直接译为“管理”，要结合上下文，选择正确的词汇。这里实际说的是“高层管理人员”，在翻译时要多加注意。

攻破长难句：② “It all traced back to this one word,” says Chia Suan Chong, a UK-based communications skills and intercultural trainer, who didn’t reveal the tricky word because it is highly industry-specific and possibly identifiable.主干成分是“It all traced back to this one word,” says Chia Suan Chong。Chia Suan Chong后接一个同位语a UK-based communications skills and intercultural trainer和一个who引导的非限定性定语从句，而这个定语从句本身含有because引导的原因状语从句，句子结构稍显复杂。在翻译同位语时，一般可把同位语结构译为主谓结构。在本句中，可看成是Chia Suan Chong is a UK-based communications skills and intercultural trainer的变体培训师英语，译为“庄贾萱（Chia Suan Chong）是在英国工作的跨文化沟通技能培训师培训师英语，她表示……。此外，还要注意的是，英语一般先结果后原因，汉语一般先原因或结果培训师英语：精译求精02 | CATTI实务真题学习，所以可先翻译because引导的原因状语从句，放于who didn’t reveal the tricky word这个结果之前。

译文

数月后，公司高层管理人员着手调查为何项目失败并损失了数十万美元。在英国工作的跨文化沟通技能培训师庄贾萱（Chia Suan Chong）表示：“最后，一切都归因于这个词。双方的理解南辕北辙，于是一切都乱了套。”但是，因为这个单词是行业专门术语，一旦透露，就可能会暴露企业信息，所以她没有透露这个单词。