Synonym: displacement, interlingual rendition, rendering, transformation, version. Similar words: translate, transformation, transportation, transition, transaction, legislation, transmission, relation. Meaning: [trænz'leɪʃn ,-s-] n. 1. a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language 2. a uniform movement without rotation 3. the act of changing in form or shape or appearance 4. (mathematics) a transformation in which the origin of the coordinate system is moved to another position but the direction of each axis remains the same 5. (genetics) the process whereby genetic information coded in messenger RNA directs the formation of a specific protein at a ribosome in the cytoplasm 6. rewording something in less technical terminology 7. the act of uniform movement.
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31 A literal translation of 'euthanasia' would be 'good death'.
32 The irony is lost in translation.
33 Lanny got a French translation of the seven plays.
34 It's just a very rough translation.
35 She reads Proust in translation.
36 The usual translation of 'glasnost' is 'openness'.
37 The children do one French translation a week.
38 The joke loses something in the translation.
39 I'll do a translation for you/do you a translation.
40 She helped me with the translation.
41 I've got this translation to do for Friday.
42 For convenience, the German translation is printed below.
43 I've only read Solzhenitsyn in translation.
44 There were a few trivial slips in the translation.
45 Simultaneous translation into English is available to delegates.
46 Publishers have commissioned a French translation of the book.
47 The poems do not survive the translation into English.
48 She has considerable professional experience of translation.
49 The dialogue sounded stilted and unnatural, perhaps because of the translation from the original Russian.
50 The translation of the Latin motto reads "Not for oneself, but for others".
51 I read the book in translation, not in the original Norwegian.
52 She tried making her own translation of the sign without consulting a dictionary.
53 The speeches will be broadcast live, with simultaneous translation into English.
54 Most of the translation he did for me was complete nonsense.
55 The translation is well done except for a few small mistakes.
56 The exam consists of an essay and an unseen translation.
57 I can speak French,(sentencedict .com) but simultaneous translation is beyond my capabilities .
58 Let me make it clear that I am not advocating the return to the traditional grammar — translation method.
59 I want to break the back of this translation before the weekend.
60 I have to pick out its meaning with the help of an English translation.
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