Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
Horizontal diversification
Chinese translation:
横向多元化
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English term
Horizontal diversification
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网络上看到两种翻译，水平多角化和横向多元化，请问翻译成哪一个更加贴切？哪种翻译在业界更加常用？
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| 4 | 横向多元化 |
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| 5 | 水平多角化 |
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| 4 +1 | 横向多元化 |
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横向多元化
水平多角化经营战略，也称为横向多角化、横向多角化经营战略、水平多角化、水平多角化策略、水平多元化、水平多元化战略、水平多元化发展战略、水平多角化经营、横向多元化经营战略。有多种文本翻译，但按照你的问题，“哪个更常用”，我在搜索引擎查询到“水平多角化”有1,540,000个结果，横向多元化有2,420,000个结果，显然后者更常用。
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澳门产业横向多元化的探索——以珠澳跨境工业园区为例
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水平多角化
简体中文和繁体中文都译为“水平多角化”
英文释义：
What is Product Diversification?
Product diversification is a strategy employed by a company to increase profitability and achieve higher sales volume from new products. Diversification can occur at the business level or at the corporate level.
Business-level product diversification – Expanding into a new segment of an industry that the company is already operating in.
Corporate-level product diversification – Expanding into a new industry that is beyond the scope of the company’s current business unit.
这个词常见于企业发展战略领域，参考链接如下：
https://wiki.mbalib.com/wiki/水平多角化经营战略
https://www.3people.com.tw/知識/多角化/就業考試-桃園大眾捷運公司/9ac4fdc0-f6c...
英文释义：
What is Product Diversification?
Product diversification is a strategy employed by a company to increase profitability and achieve higher sales volume from new products. Diversification can occur at the business level or at the corporate level.
Business-level product diversification – Expanding into a new segment of an industry that the company is already operating in.
Corporate-level product diversification – Expanding into a new industry that is beyond the scope of the company’s current business unit.
这个词常见于企业发展战略领域，参考链接如下：
https://wiki.mbalib.com/wiki/水平多角化经营战略
https://www.3people.com.tw/知識/多角化/就業考試-桃園大眾捷運公司/9ac4fdc0-f6c...
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横向多元化
我不知道在业界哪种翻译更加常用，我只是从字面方面分析：
“水平多角化” 变成 level multi-angling 或 horizontal multi-angling.
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用 “横向多元化” 的例子：
http://gb.oversea.cnki.net/KCMS/detail/detail.aspx?filename=...
https://www.xzbu.com/3/view-1409897.htm
https://www.iiiff.com/article/349546
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用百度搜索引擎 “百度一下”，結果：
“水平多角化” 有 8,450,000个，
“横向多元化” 有 30,800,000个。
https://www.baidu.com/s?ie=utf-8&f=8&rsv_bp=1&rsv_idx=1&tn=b...
https://www.baidu.com/s?ie=utf-8&f=8&rsv_bp=1&rsv_idx=1&tn=b...
好像日本人用 “水平多角化”：
https://kotobank.jp/word/水平型多角化-1345784
http://globalance.co.jp/?p=249
https://www.management-consultant.info/?p=2197
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日本人叫 “水平型多角化”。
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原来 “多角化” 是日语，用百度翻译查：
https://fanyi.baidu.com/#en/jp/diversification
https://fanyi.baidu.com/#jp/en/多角化
“水平多角化” 变成 level multi-angling 或 horizontal multi-angling.
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用 “横向多元化” 的例子：
http://gb.oversea.cnki.net/KCMS/detail/detail.aspx?filename=...
https://www.xzbu.com/3/view-1409897.htm
https://www.iiiff.com/article/349546
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Note added at 1 day 54 mins (2021-03-04 20:49:31 GMT)
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用百度搜索引擎 “百度一下”，結果：
“水平多角化” 有 8,450,000个，
“横向多元化” 有 30,800,000个。
https://www.baidu.com/s?ie=utf-8&f=8&rsv_bp=1&rsv_idx=1&tn=b...
https://www.baidu.com/s?ie=utf-8&f=8&rsv_bp=1&rsv_idx=1&tn=b...
好像日本人用 “水平多角化”：
https://kotobank.jp/word/水平型多角化-1345784
http://globalance.co.jp/?p=249
https://www.management-consultant.info/?p=2197
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Note added at 1 day 59 mins (2021-03-04 20:54:59 GMT)
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日本人叫 “水平型多角化”。
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Note added at 1 day 1 hr (2021-03-04 21:21:46 GMT)
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原来 “多角化” 是日语，用百度翻译查：
https://fanyi.baidu.com/#en/jp/diversification
https://fanyi.baidu.com/#jp/en/多角化
Discussion
“多角化”强调的是参与事件的各个“角色” (actor)，这里的“角”和三角恋的“角”是一个概念，是一个“点对点”的关系。
“多元化”隐喻的是一个“面”，或者说是一个范畴、范围，= dimension，是一个“面对面”的关系。
再具体一点，点连成线，线铺开面。
“多角化”像是”多点开花“的平面视觉效果，而“多元化”则加了3D效果。