translation
noun/trænzˈleɪʃn/
Слово англійською: translation
Переклад translation українською: пере́клад
Детальний опис
- [uncountable] the process of changing something that is written or spoken into another language
- an error in translation
- translation from something into something He specializes in translation from Danish into English.
- translation from something The request must have lost something in the translation from the French.
- translation into something Several books are already in translation into other languages.
- translation into something The poems do not survive the translation into English.
- translation of something (into something) The systems are used for the online translation of text.
- in translation The book loses something in translation.
- The irony is lost in translation.
- There will be simultaneous translation in English and Chinese.
- [countable, uncountable] a text or word that has been changed from one language into another
- translation of something The usual translation of ‘glasnost’ is ‘openness’.
- a copy of Dryden’s translation of the Aeneid
- A full English translation of this speech is widely available on the internet.
- a rough translation (= not translating everything exactly)
- a literal translation (= following the original words exactly)
- a free translation (= not following the original words exactly)
- a word-for-word translation
- in translation I have only read Tolstoy in translation.
- [uncountable] translation (of something) into something the process of changing something into a different form
- the translation of theory into practice
- the translation of sporting potential into Olympic gold medals
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French, or from Latin translatio(n-), from translat- ‘carried across’, past participle of transferre, from trans- ‘across’ + ferre ‘to bear’.