Need help with a Chinese sentence

[deen the breen]

hi all

Can somebody tell me what the last part of the second sentence means?

上个世纪八十年代，中国出现了一种新的职业，叫作服装设计师。其实对于中国人来说，这个职业并不陌生，它与中国的采极其相似。

thank u.

[linguaholic]

I am not sure to be honest...

I can not figure out what the 采 stands for in the last part. Usually it means "to pick, gather, collect".

The last sentence 这个职业并不陌生，它与中国的采极其相似, might mean something like:

According to Chinese, the profession "clothes designer" is not something that they are unfamiliar with, on the contrary, it resembles to a high degree to the name that Chinese people give to this kind of profession in China.

The English Translation is horrible, but I hope you will understand what I mean here :=) I might think about a better translation in the meantime :=)

[lookforuu]

它与中国的采极其相似。

This is not a correct sentence, no one would say some sentence like this. 采 is not a word to stand by itself, there should be something next to it. Please check your source.

[pandandesign]

What do you mean by 采极其? I haven't heard of any word like this. Where did you find these words from? I believe you speak Mandarin, right? I would want to know where did you get that source from. Did you just translate into Chinese from a different language or something?

[lookforuu]

I guess to say it in a correct way, it could be

它与中国的裁缝极其相似

[MegaZero]

Are you this is the correct structure or words? It sounds really weird to me :S

Try looking at it again because you might have typed / copied it wrong!