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单词 transliterate
释义

transliterate

verb

trans·​lit·​er·​ate tran(t)s-ˈli-tə-ˌrāt How to pronounce transliterate (audio)
tranz-
transliterated; transliterating

transitive verb

: to represent or spell in the characters of another alphabet
transliteration
(ˌ)tran(t)s-ˌli-tə-ˈrā-shən How to pronounce transliterate (audio)
(ˌ)tranz-
noun

Example Sentences

The Russian letter Я is usually transliterated in English as ya or ia.
Recent Examples on the Web Many attempts have been made to transliterate Chinese in the Latin alphabet. Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022 The government has also vowed to transliterate candidates’ names in 2021 – a strategy not required by law but used in nearby Boston to make ballots less confusing for Chinese speakers. Lindsey Mcginnis, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Jan. 2021 The confusion stems from the fact that his native Russian uses the Cyrillic alphabet, and there is no standardized way of transliterating names into the Latin alphabet. Hanna Kozlowska, Quartz, 25 Sep. 2019 But technically, the first word of the name is the Korean idiom that transliterates as sohn-mat. Julia Kramer, Bon Appétit, 9 July 2019 The name of Samarn Poonan, the Thai Navy SEAL who died in the cave rescue efforts, was transliterated as Saman Kunan, in an earlier photo caption with this article. Wilawan Watcharasakwet And Phred Dvorak, WSJ, 6 July 2018 This was a work, after all, that transliterated a 19th-centry French opera depicting the supposedly lusty, homicidal nature of Gypsies into a 20th-century spectacle depicting the supposedly lusty, homicidal nature of black people. Ben Brantley, New York Times, 27 June 2018 Her name, formerly transliterated as Chan Sheng Mai, means Plum Blossom. Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2018 The crowd sang songs from the Psalms, following transliterated Hebrew on giant television screens. Emma Green, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2017 See More

Word History

Etymology

trans- + Latin littera letter

First Known Use

1835, in the meaning defined above

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