| 单词 | translate |
| 释义 | translate (once / 96 pages) 1v 2v 3v 4v 5v To translate is to put into a different language or interpret. If your brother says, "Gee, Mom, all of my friends have really cool pets, like snakes and stuff," you can translate that statement to mean "I want a snake." Translate comes from the Latin translates, which means "carry across." The word isn't limited to talking about language. You can translate sales into dollars, or a play into a movie. When used that way, translate means changing something from one form to another. WORD FAMILYtranslate: mistranslate, retranslate, translatable, translated, translates, translating, translation, translator+/mistranslate: mistranslated, mistranslates, mistranslating, mistranslation/mistranslation: mistranslations/retranslate: retranslated, retranslates, retranslating/translatable: untranslatable/translation: translational, translations/translational: nontranslational/translator: translators/untranslatable: untranslatably USAGE EXAMPLESAchilles’ defining attribute—it’s the first word of the Iliad—is mēnin, usually translated as “wrath” or “rage.” The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) But when he turned it into a potential job, it was overlooked because it didn’t translate to the employer. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) More education translates into higher incomes, more tax revenue and a lower likelihood of reliance on government welfare or other payments. Wall Street Journal(Dec 30, 2016) 1 1v restate (words) from one language into another language I have to translate when my in-laws from Austria visit the U.S. He translates for the U.N. Syn|Hypo|Hyper interpret, render retranslate translate again mistranslatetranslate incorrectly glossprovide an interlinear translation of a word or phrase Latinizetranslate into Latin ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell to say, state, or perform again 2v make sense of a language Syn|Hyper interpret, read, understand understand know and comprehend the nature or meaning of 3v express, as in simple and less technical language Can you translate the instructions in this manual for a layman? Is there a need to translate the psychiatrist's remarks? Hyper paraphrase, rephrase, reword express the same message in different words 4v be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way poetry often does not translate Tolstoy's novels translate well into English Syn|Hyper interpret, render restate (words) from one language into another language be have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun) 5v change from one form or medium into another 2Braque translated collage into oil Syn|Hypo|Hyper transform metricise, metricize express in the metric system diagonalise, diagonalizetransform a matrix to a diagonal matrix alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation 1v subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body Hyper displace, move cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense 2v change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation 3Hyper displace, move cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense v be equivalent in effect 4the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power Hyper be, equal be identical or equivalent to v bring to a certain spiritual state 5Hyper channel, channelise, channelize, transfer, transmit, transport send from one person or place to another v determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA Hyper ascertain, determine, find, find out establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study |
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