translate
英[træns'leɪt;trɑːns-;-nz-]
美[træns'let]
- vt. 翻译；转化；解释；转变为；调动
- vi. 翻译
英英释意
- 1. restate (words) from one language into another language;
- "I have to translate when my in-laws from Austria visit the U.S."
- "Can you interpret the speech of the visiting dignitaries?"
- "She rendered the French poem into English"
- "He translates for the U.N."
- 2. change from one form or medium into another;
- "Braque translated collage into oil"
- 3. make sense of a language;
- "She understands French"
- "Can you read Greek?"
- 4. bring to a certain spiritual state
- 5. change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation
- 6. be equivalent in effect;
- "the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power"
- 7. be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way;
- "poetry often does not translate"
- "Tolstoy's novels translate well into English"
- 8. physics: subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body
- 9. express, as in simple and less technical langauge;
- "Can you translate the instructions in this manual for a layman?"
- "Is there a need to translate the psychiatrist's remarks?"
- 10. genetics: determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA