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Definition

translate /træns'leÇt/ v ၁။ ~ (sth) (from sth) (into sth) ဘာသာျပန္သည္။ He didn't understand Greek, so I offered to translate. ❍ translate an article into Dutch ❍ ‘Suisse’ had been wrongly translated as ‘Sweden’. ❍ ( fig ) Can someone translate this legal jargon into plain English for me? Compare INTERPRET ၃ ၂။ ဘာသာျပန္ႏိုင္ စြမ္းသည္။ ဘာသာျပန္၍ရသည္။ Most poetry doesn't translate well. ❍ The Welsh name translates as ‘Land's End’. ၃။ ~ (sth) into sth အေကာင္အထည္ေပၚသည္။ It's time to translate our ideas into action. ❍ The Party's favourable image doesn't always translate into votes. ❏ translation /-'leÇʃn/ n ၁။ [U] ဘာသာျပန္ဆိုျခင္း။ ဘာသာျပန္ဆိုခ်က္။ errors in translation ❍ the translation of theories into practice. ၂။ [C,U] ဘာသာျပန္။ make/ do a translation of a document ❍ a rough/ a literal/ an exact translation ❍ The usual translation of ‘glasnost’ is ‘openness’. ❍ read Homer in translation (ie in a different language from that in which he wrote). ❏ translator n ဘာသာျပန္။ Compare INTERPRETER

Examples

1. I don’t speak Russian
2. so someone will have to translate.
3. [translate something into something] : The Bible has been translated into more than 100 languages.
4. Poetry doesn’t always translate well.
5. [something translates as something] : ‘Merci’ in French translates as ‘thank you’ in English.
6. The software can translate files from most other word processing programs.
7. [translate into/to] : Recent economic problems are beginning to translate into a demand for reforms.
8. These earnings
9. translated into pounds
10. represent half of our total profits.
11. An attempt to translate Marxist ideas into practice