Chinese English Dictionary Online

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Trad. 譯
  • to translate
  • to interpret
Trad. 重譯
  • to translate again (i.e. to redo the same translation)
  • to translate repeatedly from one language to the next (so multiplying errors)
Trad. 音譯
  • transliteration (rendering phonetic value, e.g. of English words in Chinese characters)
  • characters giving phonetic value of Chinese word or name (when the correct characters may be unknown)
  • transcription (linguistics)
  • to transcribe phonetic symbols
Trad. 意譯
  • meaning (of foreign expression)
  • translation of the meaning (as opposed to literal translation 直譯|直译)
  • paraphrase
  • free translation
Trad. 互譯
  • two-way translation
Trad. 通譯
  • (old) to translate
  • to interpret
  • translator
  • interpreter
Trad. 義譯
  • to translate a term into Chinese using a combination of characters or words that suggests its meaning (as opposed to transliteration 音譯|音译[yin1 yi4]) (e.g. 超文本[chao1 wen2 ben3], 火車|火车[huo3 che1])
Trad. 借譯
  • loan translation
  • to calque
Trad. 摘譯
  • quoted (from)
  • translation of selected passages
Trad. 翻譯
  • to translate
  • to interpret
  • translator
  • interpreter
  • translation
  • interpretation
  • CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
Trad. 直譯
  • literal translation
Trad. 轉譯
  • to translate (to another language)
  • to convert
Trad. 編譯
  • to translate and edit
  • translator-editor
  • (computing) to compile (source code)
Trad. 筆譯
  • written translation
Trad. 形譯
  • derivation of a Chinese loanword from Japanese by using the same characters (or variants) but applying Chinese pronunciation (e.g. 場合|场合[chang3 he2], derived from Japanese 場合, pronounced "ba'ai")
Trad. 創譯
  • transcreation (adaptation of a creative work for an audience of a different culture)
Trad. 譯介
  • to introduce (a book etc) to people who don't read the language in which it was written by translating it
Trad. 譯名
  • translated names
  • transliteration
Trad. 譯員
  • interpreter
  • translator (esp. oral)
Trad. 譯寫
  • to translate
  • to render foreign words
  • to transliterate

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