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The present work aims to provide a real perspective on a bilingual's balance between communicative intention and adoption of strategies in simultaneous interpreting. Two methodological methods are adopted by analyzing the SI corpus: quantitative, in which metalinguistic aspects of the performance are examined, and qualitative, which focuses on the shifts of the interpreting product. It is concluded that: i) there are indeed communicative "strategy" that a bilingual interpreter without academic training resorts to to ensure the quality and fluidity of simultaneous interpreting, however, these intentions do not present a sufficient reasoning nor do they reveal a systematic pattern, therefore they would be designated as "intuitive strategies" of a bilingual; ii) a bilingual privileges the communicative role of interpretation to ensure the transmission of messages, instead of seeking to follow their pre-established strategies.

Aiming to lessen energy consumption and heating cost, this paper analyzes the effect of different types of window for residential building based on intermittent heating supply. The research results show that the type of window with a smaller heat transfer coefficient has higher energy consumption. Otherwise, the rate of temperature rising is slightly affected by the change of window with different heat transfer coefficient and window-to-wall ratio. Based on the economic and technical analysis, through changing the better window, energy-saving ratio can be arrived to 10.4%-16.8% and economic recovery period is 4.4-10.4 years. The research findings can be used for reference to thermal design in new residential buildings and provide improvement of building performance for existing residential buildings.