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/trænsˈleɪt/verb
with obj.
1
- express the sense of (words or text) in another language翻译（话语, 文本）：
the German original has been translated into English.
德语原文已被译成英语。
1.1
- no obj. be expressed or be capable of being expressed in another language被翻译, 可翻译：
shiatsu literally translates as 'finger pressure'.
"shiatsu"可直译为“手指压力”。
1.2
translate something into/translate into
convert or be converted into (another form or medium)（使）转换, 转化（成另一形式或媒介）：with obj. few of Shakespeare's other works have been translated into ballets莎士比亚其他作品极少改编成芭蕾舞剧
no obj. twenty years of critical success which rarely translated into public acclaim.罕被民众颂扬的20年重大成就。
2
- move from one place or condition to another转移, 调动; 转变, 变化：
she had been translated from familiar surroundings to a foreign court.
她从熟悉的环境被带到了一个陌生的庭院。
2.1
- formal move (a bishop or, in Scotland, a minister) to another see or pastoral charge〈正式〉把（主教, 苏格兰牧师）调至另一个教区; 调换（主教, 苏格兰牧师）的教区。
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- formal remove (a saint's relics) to another place〈正式〉移葬（圣徒遗骸）。
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- poetic/literary convey (someone, typically still alive) to heaven〈诗/文〉送（人, 尤指活人）进天堂。
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- Biology convert (a sequence of nucleotides in messenger RNA) to an amino-acid sequence in a protein or polypeptide during synthesis【生】转译（信使RNA中的一组核苷酸）。
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- Physics cause (a body) to move so that all its parts travel in the same direction, without rotation or change of shape【物理】平移（主干部分）。
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- Mathematics transform (a geometrical figure) in an analogous way【数】平移（几何图形）。
派生词
translatability
nountranslatable
adjective词源
Middle English: from Latin translatus 'carried across'， past participle of transferre （see TRANSFER）.