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Translator   /trænslˈeɪtər/  /trænzlˈeɪtər/   Listen
Translator

noun
1.
A person who translates written messages from one language to another.  Synonym: transcriber.
2.
Someone who mediates between speakers of different languages.  Synonym: interpreter.
3.
A program that translates one programming language into another.  Synonym: translating program.






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"Translator" Quotes from Famous Books



... Elizabethan translator of Homer, expressing himself in his preface thus: "Though truth in her very nakedness sits in so deep a pit, that from Gades to Aurora and Ganges few eyes can sound her, I hope yet those few here will so discover and confirm that, the date being out of her ...
— Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold • Matthew Arnold

... class, and no ruined nobility had dropped out of Tellson's ledgers, to turn cooks and carpenters. As a tutor, whose attainments made the student's way unusually pleasant and profitable, and as an elegant translator who brought something to his work besides mere dictionary knowledge, young Mr. Darnay soon became known and encouraged. He was well acquainted, more-over, with the circumstances of his country, and those were of ever-growing interest. So, with great perseverance and untiring ...
— A Tale of Two Cities - A Story of the French Revolution • Charles Dickens

... pretentious claim. A strictly literal rendering of any language into another is by no means always an easy task; and it is especially difficult to couple, as the translator in this case asserts he has done, the utmost clearness, force, and precision in the expression of the thought, with minute exactness of version. We are surprised that Mr. Sawyer should have rested his claim for the excellence and superiority of his translation ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, Issue 17, March, 1859 • Various

... French translator of the Paradise well remarks, his reasoning is physical; that of Dante ...
— The Divine Comedy • Dante

... date of the Welsh version, the translator had no great mastery of French, and is often at fault as to the meaning both of words and sentences, and when in a difficulty is only too apt to cut the knot by omitting the passage bodily. The book itself, moreover, is not entire. On page 275, ...
— High History of the Holy Graal • Unknown


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