今天在国外网站上看到对华为的介绍，标题是《TIMELINE-The meteoric rise of China’s Huawei》，觉得挺有意思，从用词及事件挑选上，可以看到老外是怎么用有色眼镜看待中国公司的。中文部分是画蛇添足翻译的。

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In just over two decades Huawei Technologies has become the world’s third largest maker of mobile telecommunications gear, but its rapid rise has also been dotted with controversy and missteps.

仅二十年，华为技术已成为世界第三大的移动电信设备制造商，但它的迅速崛起也点缀着争议和失误。

Here is a chronology of key events in Huawei’s history:这里是华为历史关键事件年表：

1982 – Ren Zhengfei retires as an officer in the People’s Liberation Army, where he helped build its communications network

1982年-任正非从人民解放军退休，在那里他帮助建立了通信网络

1988 – Ren founds Huawei as distributor of imported PBX products

1988年-任创立华为，作为PBX产品分销商

1993 – Introduces its first major product, a digital telephone switch with large capacity of over 10,000 circuits

1993年-推出了第一个主要产品，超过10,000个电路的大容量数字电话交换机

1996 – Wins first big overseas contract for fixed-line network products from Hong Kong’s Hutchison-Whampoa

1996年-获得第一个大型海外固网产品合同，来自香港和记黄埔

2003 – Forms joint venture with 3Com to build Internet protocol-based routers and switches

2003 -与3Com公司合资（成立华为3Com）开发基于互联网协议的路由器和交换机

– Cisco Systems sues for copyright violations, but eventually drops suit after Huawei agrees to stop selling some products and alter others

-思科系统公司起诉侵犯专利，在华为同意停止销售某些产品和替代另外一些产品后，最终撤销诉讼

2004 – Overseas sales surpass domestic sales for first time

2004 -第一次海外销售超过国内销售

2007 – State media says Huawei gives $146 million to 7,000 employees to quit and then rehired them to skirt the higher costs of a new labour contract law

2007 -援引权威媒体，华为赔偿1.46亿美金辞退7,000名员工再返聘，以规避可能造成更高成本的新版劳动合同法

– Plan to buy 3Com with partner Bain Capital fails on US government concerns

-与合作伙伴贝恩资本计划收购3Com公司，但因美国政府的阻挠未果

2009 – Named world’s top patent seeker, becoming the first Chinese company to head the United Nations World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) list.

2009年-专利申请位居第一，中国公司第一次列于联合国世界知识产权组织（知识产权组织）名单榜首。

– Suspends employee suspected of trying to steal data from Indonesian mobile firm Excelcomindo

-暂停涉嫌窃取来自印度尼西亚Excelcomindo移动公司的数据的员工

– 2008 contract orders rose 46 percent to $23.3 billion — 75 percent of which came from overseas — and expects orders to reach $30 billion this year.

- 2008年合同订单增长百分之四十六，达到233亿美元–75%来自海外-预计今年订单达到300亿美元。

– Overtakes Alcatel-Lucent to become world’s No. 3 mobile network gear maker, doubling its market share from a year ago, according to researcher Dell’Oro

-超越阿尔卡特朗讯，成为世界第三大移动网络设备制造商，比一年前增加一倍的市场份额。
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注：全球电信设备提供商排名依次是：爱立信，诺基亚西门子(诺西)，华为，阿尔卡特朗讯。