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HSK
to translate / to interpret / translator / interpreter / translation / interpretation / CL: 個|个, ,
HSK 4
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *翻* | 翻* | *翻
to turn over / to flip over / to overturn / to rummage through / to translate / to decode / to double / to climb over or into / to cross
HSK 4
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *股* | 股* | *股
thigh / part of a whole; portion of a sum / (finance) stock; share / strand of a thread / low-level administrative unit, translated as "section" or "department" etc, ranked below / classifier for long winding things like ropes, rivers etc / classifier for smoke, smells etc: thread, puff, whiff / classifier for bands of people, gangs etc / classifier for sudden forceful actions
HSK 6
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *譯* | 譯* | *譯
to translate / to interpret
HSK 7-9
close-fitting / closest (translation)
HSK 7-9
original work (not translation or abridged)
translated names / transliteration
to convert / conversion / (in accounting, referring to currency conversion) translation
the (rightful) emperor / "Son of Heaven" (traditional English translation)
to translate and edit / translator-editor / (computing) to compile (source code)
translation (translated version of a text)
a text (article, script, contract etc) / version of a text (copy, translation, abridged version etc) / (computing) text
lost / missing / to lose (sb in one's charge) / to get lost / to wander away / to lose (flavor, freshness, shape, hair, one's good looks etc) / to lose meaning (in translation)
translated text
English translation
headman (of primitive people) / tribal chief / used as translation for foreign leaders, e.g. Indian Rajah or Arab Sheik or Emir
Wei and Jin philosophical school amalgamating Daoist and Confucian ideals / translation of metaphysics (also translated 形而上學|形而上学)
leech / bloodsucking vermin / vampire (translated European notion) / fig. cruel exploiter, esp. a capitalist exploiting the workers
Kṣitigarbha, the Bodhisattva of the Great Vow (to save all souls before accepting Bodhi) / also translated Earth Treasury, Earth Womb, or Earth Store Bodhisattva
brisket (esp. Cantonese) / belly beef / spongy meat from cow's underside and neighboring ribs / erroneously translated as sirloin
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *腩* | 腩* | *腩
brisket / belly beef / spongy meat from cow's underside and neighboring ribs / see 牛腩 esp. Cantonese / erroneously translated as sirloin
to translate (to another language) / to convert
written translation
chicken in rice wine / also translated drunken chicken
Zhu Bajie, character in Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记, with pig-like characteristics and armed with a muckrake / Pigsy in Arthur Waley's translation
Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva, the Bodhisattva of the Great Vow (to save all souls before accepting Bodhi) / also translated Earth Treasury, Earth Womb, or Earth Store Bodhisattva
literal translation
machine translation
Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva, the Bodhisattva of the Great Vow (to save all souls before accepting Bodhi) / also translated Earth Treasury, Earth Womb, or Earth Store Bodhisattva
to introduce (a book etc) to people who don't read the language in which it was written by translating it
Emirate / Sheikdom / used as translation for country under a chief
natural change / evolution (early translation, since replaced by 進化|进化)
quoted (from) / translation of selected passages
meaning (of foreign expression) / translation of the meaning (as opposed to literal translation 直譯|直译) / paraphrase / free translation
Moses (Catholic translation) / also 摩西 (Protestant translation)
translated work
to translate again (i.e. to redo the same translation) / to translate repeatedly from one language to the next (so multiplying errors)
(Buddhism) Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra, aka the Nirvana Sutra, of which two major Chinese translations are extant, influential in the development of East Asian Buddhism
true statement / incantation (translates Sanskrit: dharani 陀羅尼|陀罗尼)
restrain yourself and return to the rites (idiom, from Analects); to subdue self and observe proprieties / (any number of possible translations)
to translate / to interpret
modern language version / modern translation / contemporary translation
The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai by Han Bangqing 韓邦慶|韩邦庆, long novel of lower life in Classical Chinese and Jiangsu vernacular / translated into Putonghua as 海上花 by Iris Chang
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *繙* | 繙* | *繙
to translate
(old) to translate / to interpret / translator / interpreter
The Sutra in Forty-two Sections Spoken by the Buddha, the first Chinese Buddhist text, translated in 67 AD by Kasyapa-Matanga 迦葉摩騰|迦叶摩腾 and Gobharana 竺法蘭|竺法兰 (Dharmaraksha)
target language (for translation)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鈤* | 鈤* | *鈤
archaic translation of element germanium Ge32 鍺|锗
source language (for translation)
to advance or retreat, each has its rules (idiom from Zhuangzi); many translations are possible
to advance or retreat, each has its rules (idiom from Zhuangzi); many translations are possible
(often used disparagingly) feel-good motivational story or quote (from the Chinese translation of the title of the 1993 self-help bestseller "Chicken Soup for the Soul")
Uncle Tom's Cabin, translated and adapted by Lin Shu 林紓|林纾
(linguistics) an equivalent; a translation of a term into the target language
line by line (translation, scanning etc) / progressive
Gospel of John (used in Catholic Bible translations)
to translate / to render foreign words / to transliterate
ducal title meaning lord of 10,000 households / also translated as Marquis
Death note (Japanese: デスノート), translation of cult manga series by author ŌBA Tsugumi 大場鶇|大场鸫 (pen-name) and illustrator OBATA Takeshi 小畑健
simultaneous translation
Di Renjie (607-700), Tang dynasty politician, prime minister under Wu Zetian, subsequently hero of legends / master sleuth Judge Dee, aka Chinese Sherlock Holmes, in novel Three murder cases solved by Judge Dee 狄公案 translated by Dutch sinologist R.H. van Gulik 高羅珮|高罗佩
Pilgrim's Progress, 1678 novel by John Bunyan (first Chinese translation 1851)
urban legend (translation of recent Western term) / story or theory circulated as true / same as 都會傳奇|都会传奇
machine translation (abbr. for 機器翻譯|机器翻译)
the theory of evolution (early translation, since replaced by 進化論|进化论)
a translation that takes liberties with the original text
loan translation / to calque
Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva, the Bodhisattva of the Great Vow (to save all souls before accepting Bodhi) / also translated Earth Treasury, Earth Womb, or Earth Store Bodhisattva
two-way translation
Dee Gong An (or Judge Dee's) Cases, 18th century fantasy featuring Tang dynasty politician Di Renjie 狄仁傑|狄仁杰 as master sleuth, translated by R.H. van Gulik as Three Murder Cases Solved by Judge Dee
(computing) network address translation
urban legend (translation of recent Western term) / story or theory circulated as true / same as 都市傳奇|都市传奇
Chinese translation of "kung flu", a term used by US President Trump in 2020 to refer to COVID-19 as a "Chinese" disease
Animal Farm (1945), novel and famous satire on communist revolution by George Orwell 喬治·奧威爾|乔治·奥威尔 / also translated 動物農場|动物农场
point-and-translate (computing)
(linguistics) an equivalent; a translation of a term into the target language
translation (geometry)
to correct (improve) a translation
Chao Phraya Phra Klang (Royal Finance and External Affairs Minister), the honorary title of the 18th century official of the royal court of Thailand who translated 三國演義|三国演义 (Romance of the Three Kingdoms) into Thai
member of religious order / penitent / frater / translation of French agregé (holder of teaching certificate)
machine translation
Chinese and English two-way translation
(linguistics) an equivalent; a translation of a term into the target language
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) (e.g. 超文本, 火車|火车)
translated
to translate sth into action / to put sth into action
Sandhinir mokcana vyuha sutra, a yogic text on awareness and meditation, translated as the Wisdom of Buddha
to translate into (Chinese, English etc)
diamond / (used to translate Sanskrit "vajra", a thunderbolt or mythical weapon) / guardian deity (in Buddhist iconography)


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