direct translation

collocation in English

meaningsofdirectandtranslation

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direct
adjective
uk
/daɪˈrekt/us
/daɪˈrekt/
going in a straight line towards somewhere or someone without stopping or ...
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translation
noun[C or U]
uk
/trænzˈleɪ.ʃən/us
/trænsˈleɪ.ʃən/
something that is translated, or the process of translating something, from one language ...
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(Definition ofdirectandtranslationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdirect translation

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The extreme version ofdirecttranslationis glossing, since glosses are essentially adirecttranslationof an entire text.
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Thedirecttranslationof research evidence into a clinical setting is complex.
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Thedirecttranslationof this property to the multidimensional case happens to be false.
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This version was not adirecttranslation, but it retained the same conceptual structure.
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Is the provision adirecttranslation?
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In cases in whichdirecttranslationdoes not lead to ungrammaticality, however, there is no reason for a translator to avoid it.
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Each of these thoughts can be taken as input by the language faculty, we may suppose, fordirecttranslationinto natural language expression.
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This extreme version ofdirecttranslationoften produces structures ungrammatical in the target language, something which competent translators not involved in glossing generally avoid.
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Species differences and variations in the nature of adverse early experiences studied in animals and humans precludedirecttranslationof the animal studies to the human case.
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The information source context is adirecttranslationof a database schema into logic without resolving semantic con-icts, so that the translation can be done automatically.
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Interpreters are instructed to give adirecttranslationof questions put and answers given.
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This newdirecttranslationfills that void.
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Textbook-driven learning combined with a deductive emphasis will disrupt the sequence, at the extreme producing learners who compute by a mix of pedagogical rule,directtranslation, and online declension.
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I first saw the prepositional phrase 'en linea con', thedirecttranslationof 'in line with' ('results were in line with expectations'), in a newspaper about two years ago.
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On the one hand, the position of the decentralized state views adirecttranslationof social organization, in the form of corporate groups, into loosely organized, broader political systems.
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Withdirecttranslationsome will vote for budget line 2 while others are still voting on budget line 1.
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No formal training is given, but interpreters are instructed to give adirecttranslationof questions put and answers given.
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Kuroi is adirecttranslationto the color black.
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Local idioms are occasionally adopted in place ofdirecttranslation.
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Each name is adirecttranslationof the other.
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Thedirecttranslationof the term is oil removal paper.
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In adirecttranslation"correspondance"means"mail"or"post"; and there is another reference to "ouvrir la correspondance", meaning "to open the mail".
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Although the lyrics are not adirecttranslation, the vocal and instrumental arrangements are virtually identical.
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The language is either conveyed throughdirecttranslationor inserted within a sentence.
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The tune is the same but the words are not adirecttranslationof each other.
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