{
    "term": "translation",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the process of changing something that is written or spoken into another language",
            "sensetop": "translation from something into somethingtranslation from somethingtranslation into somethingtranslation into somethingtranslation of something (into something)in translation",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "an error in translation"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He specializes in translation from Danish into English.",
                    "contextForm": "translation from something into something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The request must have lost something in the translation from the French.",
                    "contextForm": "translation from something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Several books are already in translation into other languages.",
                    "contextForm": "translation into something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The poems do not survive the translation into English.",
                    "contextForm": "translation into something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The systems are used for the online translation of text.",
                    "contextForm": "translation of something (into something)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The book loses something **in translation**.",
                    "contextForm": "in translation"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The irony is **lost in translation**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There will be simultaneous translation in English and Chinese."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["accurate", "correct", "exact"],
                "verb + translation": ["do", "make", "produce"],
                "translation + verb": ["read"],
                "translation + noun": ["process", "service", "work"],
                "preposition": [
                    "in translation",
                    "translation from",
                    "translation into"
                ],
                "phrases": ["lose something in"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a text or word that has been changed from one language into another",
            "sensetop": "translation of somethingin translation",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The usual translation of ‘glasnost’ is ‘openness’.",
                    "contextForm": "translation of something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a copy of Dryden’s translation of the Aeneid"
                },
                {
                    "text": "A full English translation of this speech is widely available on the internet."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a rough translation *(= not translating everything exactly)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a literal translation *(= following the original words exactly)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a free translation *(= not following the original words exactly)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a word-for-word translation"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I have only read Tolstoy in translation.",
                    "contextForm": "in translation"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I have a translation to do for Friday."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She tried making her own translation of the contract."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The translation of the Latin motto reads ‘Not for oneself, but for others’."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["accurate", "correct", "exact"],
                "verb + translation": ["do", "make", "produce"],
                "translation + verb": ["read"],
                "translation + noun": ["process", "service", "work"],
                "preposition": [
                    "in translation",
                    "translation from",
                    "translation into"
                ],
                "phrases": ["lose something in"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "the process of changing something into a different form",
            "sensetop": "translation (of something) into something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the translation of theory into practice"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the translation of sporting potential into Olympic gold medals"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["accurate", "correct", "exact"],
                "verb + translation": ["do", "make", "produce"],
                "translation + verb": ["read"],
                "translation + noun": ["process", "service", "work"],
                "preposition": [
                    "in translation",
                    "translation from",
                    "translation into"
                ],
                "phrases": ["lose something in"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/trænzˈleɪʃn/",
                "audio": "tr/translation/translation__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/trænzˈleɪʃn/",
                "audio": "tr/translation/translation__us_2_rr.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin translatio(n-), from translat- ‘carried across’, past participle of transferre, from trans- ‘across’ + ferre ‘to bear’."
}