語法糾錯公司獲1.1億美元投資

語法不好，擔心出現錯誤？公文寫作需要修改潤色？別擔心，智能語法糾錯軟件可以幫到你。據報道，初創公司Grammarly近日獲得大筆風投，該公司開發的軟件可以標出用戶文章中使用不恰當的詞句，并給出修改建議，還可以告訴用戶為什么會出錯。此外，還可以幫助用戶選用恰當的語氣和詞匯。

There's money to be made from other people's mistakes: $110m (￡85m) of it, to be precise.
從別人犯下的錯誤中也可以賺到錢。準確地說，是可以賺到大錢——1.1億美元（約合7.59億元人民幣）。

That's the amount raised in a funding round by Grammarly, a firm that boasts of having what it calls "the world's most accurate online grammar checker".
這是一家名為Grammarly的創業公司獲得融資的數額。Grammarly稱，他們擁有“世界上最準確的在線語法檢查器”。

It has persuaded venture capital firms including General Catalyst, IVP and Spark Capital to support its platform.
該平臺得到了包括Genenral Catalyst、IVP和Spark Capital在內的許多風險投資公司的支持。

The eight-year-old firm, based in San Francisco, offers "mistake-free writing every time" to 6.9 million users.
這家具有八年歷史的創業公司總部位于舊金山，為690萬用戶提供“隨時糾正寫作錯誤”的服務。

The start-up was founded in 2009 by Alex Shevchenko and Max Lytvyn.
2009年，亞歷克斯?舍甫琴科和馬克斯?利特溫創立了這家公司。

Its software uses spell-checking, proof-reading and plagiarism detection tools, scanning text for the correct use of more than 250 advanced grammar rules.
其推出的軟件通過使用拼寫檢查、文本校對和抄襲檢測工具掃描文本，幫助用戶在文本中正確使用250余種高階語法規則。

But not everyone sees the need for Grammarly. One online reaction posted to the announcement of the firm's venture round was: "I rather learn to write without mistakes than let a program correct it" (perhaps inadvertently proving its usefulness).
但是，不是每個人都有使用Grammarly軟件的需求。對于該公司獲得風險投資，網絡上有一種聲音是：“我更愿意學習如何在寫作過程中避免語法錯誤，而不是用一款軟件來進行糾正。”（或許這種說法無意中證明了該軟件的實用性。）

On the other hand, Grammarly's efforts provide no guarantee that your prose will be a joy to read.
另一方面，Grammarly軟件不能保證你的文章能讓人讀起來津津有味。

Its own website contains the sentence: "Enhance your sentences with Grammarly's context-optimized word choice suggestions to instantly improve the readability of your document."
Grammarly公司網站上有這樣一句話：“Grammarly會根據語境提出詞語優化建議，提升你的句子表達質量，即刻間增強文本可讀性。”

Clearly split infinitives are safe from the software's forensic gaze.
該軟件的檢測顯示，明顯的分離不定式不存在語法錯誤。

英文來源：BBC
翻譯：魏千菡（中國日報網愛新聞iNews譯者）
編審：yaning