translator

[US]/trænzˈleɪtə(r)/
[UK]/trænzˈleɪtər/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n.interpreter, one who translates;a device for translating.

Phrases & Collocations

Bilingual translator

code translator

language translator

Example Sentences

the translator is not obliged to reproduce the prosody of the original.

I think the translator missed some of the subtleties of the original.

Functional equivalence, hardly gettable for a translator, is positively significant as a translation norm.

The translator has done a good job of rendering this difficult poem into his native language.

The author discovered that the translator had foisted several passages into his book.

The translator has taken too many liberties with this. The original meaning is lost.

And the translator's subjectivity and the text's open system have provided a new horizon to the retranslation of literary works.

The incompleteness of the translator's structure is a necessary condition for the retranslation's coming into being,while that of the readers a sufficient condition.

In his essay "The Poet as Translator", Kenneth Rexroth asserts that the translation of poetry into poetry is an act of sympathy and the prime criterion of successful translation is assimilability.

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