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Definition: translation from The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide

In literature, the rendering of words from one language to another. The first recorded named translator was Livius Andronicus, who translated Homer's Odyssey from Greek to Latin in 240 BC.


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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
[Lat.,=carrying across], the rendering of a text into another language. Applied to literature, the term connotes the art of recomposing a work in another language without losing its original flavor, or of finding an analogous substitute, for example, Scott Moncrieff's Remembrance of Things Past for Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu , which, translated literally, means “Looking for Lost Time.” Translations of the most ancient texts extant into modern languages are called decipherments. Two well-known examples are the decoding of the Egyptian hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone (see under Rosetta ) by Jean François Champollion and the decoding of the Persian cuneiform inscriptions on the rock of Behistun by Henry Rawlinson. Translating sacred texts has always been the chief means by which a culture transmits its values to posterity. Important translations of the Bible began with the Vulgate (Hebrew and Greek into Latin) of St. Jerome in the 4th cent. A.D. English translations of the…
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From The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism
Much of Anglophone modernism was constituted by translation. IMAGISM was created in the wake of F. S. Flint's 1912 accounts of French post- SYMBOLIST poetry; VORTICISM in reaction to F. T. Marinetti's Italian FUTURISM ; Ford Madox Ford's English Review and T. S. Eliot's Criterion as calques of the…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
[Lat.,=carrying across], the rendering of a text into another language. Applied to literature, the term connotes the art of recomposing a work in another language without losing its original flavor, or of finding an analogous substitute, for example, Scott Moncrieff's Remembrance of Things Past for…
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From The Classical Tradition
Translation was central to Roman culture: it is taken for granted as much in modern as it was in ancient times that Latin literature grew expressly out of translation from the Greek epic and dramatic tradition. Livius Andronicus (ca. 284-204 bce ), sometimes claimed as the "father of Roman…
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From Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850
The English word translation (Latin trans + latus ) and its German equivalents ( Übersetzung, Überträgung ) etymologically indicate something “carried across.” The transformations involved in this movement may be physical, historical, social, psychological, spiritual, etc.; or of place, function, …
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From Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology
The concept of translation is a long-established one across many disciplines, with the distinctive anthropological contribution being an emphasis on the social nature of translation and on the many-layered nature of meaning. First, a common metaphor for the anthropologist’s task has come to be that…
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From Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology
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Translation to achieve equivalence of meaning has become a significant issue for international and cross-cultural research. A failure to achieve equivalence in translation can put into question the research generally and conclusions derived from that research specifically. Beginning in the 1970s, …
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From Brenner's Encyclopedia of Genetics
The main steps of protein synthesis in...
Abstract Translation is the process by which the inherited genomic information is translated into functional proteins. The proteins constitute the essential cellular machinery for all organisms. A genome may contain from less than 1000 genes to several 10000 genes that are translated depending on…
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From The Macquarie Dictionary
translated, translating to turn (something written or spoken) from one language into another to translate Arrernte into English., translates, translating, translated translated, translating to change into another form; transform or convert. translates, translating, translated translated, translating…
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From The American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language
To render in another language: translated the Korean novel into German. To express in different, often simpler words: translated the technical jargon into ordinary language. a. To change from one form, function, or state to another; convert or transform: translate ideas into reality. b. To express…
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From Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World
Scholars working under the sponsorship of Muslim patrons undertook the translation of works on Greek philosophy and scientific learning and transmitted them to the West. An early and particularly fertile center for translation was Jundishapur in Khuzistan, southeast of Baghdad. There the Bukhtishu, …
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