Query Sheet疑问表
A query sheet is a structured log that translators use to record questions about unclear source text, inconsistent terminology, or client-specific wording preferences that arise during a translation and localization project. It is maintained as part of project documentation and circulates between the linguists, project managers, and client reviewers so that each open issue receives a documented answer before final delivery.
Angel Translation editorial reference · Confirm the rendering against your source and approved project terminology.
Check source meaning → confirm the preferred term → record approved variants and references.
Where this term appears
Query sheets appear most often in translation workflows for marketing, legal, software, or e-learning content where translators cannot stop to email the client for every issue. The sheet may be a shared spreadsheet with columns for source segment, question, suggested translation, and client answer, and it is reviewed during query clarification calls or before in-context review.
Translation checks
The most common error is treating every query as urgent or sending a long unstructured email thread instead of logging it in a single sheet; this makes answers hard to track and can delay sign-off. Another mistake is recording only the translator's doubt without a proposed rendering, which forces the client to work from scratch and increases turnaround time.
Keep the term aligned across your files
Creative and consumer content needs accurate meaning as well as tone and context. Subtitles, interfaces and voice scripts also require checks for timing, character limits and pronunciation.
Provide approved terms and previous translations with the source files. Agree how variants, ambiguous wording and revisions will be reviewed. Terminology maintenance and any termbase handback are confirmed in the project scope. See the 8-step AI + expert workflow.
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Include the source and target languages, file types, intended use, deadline and any approved termbase. Agree handling before sending sensitive files. Acknowledged in 4 hours, quoted in 24.
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