translate

translate

• v.
  • 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."

    同义词：interpretrender

  • change from one form or medium into another

    "Braque translated collage into oil"

    同义词：transform

  • make sense of a language

    同义词：understandreadinterpret

  • bring to a certain spiritual state
  • change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation
  • be equivalent in effect

    "the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power"

  • be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way

    "poetry often does not translate"; "Tolstoy's novels translate well into English"

  • subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body
  • 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?"

  • determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA