translate: [13] To translate something is etymologically to ‘carry it across’ from one language into another. The word was acquired from trānslātus, the past participle of Latin trānsferre ‘carry across, transfer, translate’ (source of English transfer). => extol, relate
translate (v.)
early 14c., "to remove from one place to another," also "to turn from one language to another," from Old French translater and directly from Latin translatus "carried over," serving as past participle of transferre "to bring over, carry over" (see transfer), from trans- (see trans-) + latus "borne, carried" (see oblate (n.)). Related: Translated; translating. A similar notion is behind the Old English word it replaced, awendan, from wendan "to turn, direct" (see wend).
雙語例句
1. It can translate data from maps or remote sensing instruments into images.
它可以把從地圖或遙感設備中得到的數據轉化成為圖像。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The girls waited for Mr Esch to translate.
女孩們等待埃施先生作翻譯。
來自柯林斯例句
3. I can read Spanish but can't translate into it.
我能閱讀西班牙語,但不能翻譯成西班牙語.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. These jokes would be far too difficult to translate.
這些笑話也許極其難譯.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
5. We must make efforts to translate our ideal into reality.