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A translator reads something written in one language and speaks it or writes it in another language. For example, they could read a book in French and then translate it into English. See translation for more information.

In order to convert meanings from one language into another one, translators must be able to know the target language deeply. They are conveying the original meaning of the source text or material to the second language. As a result, translators do not only convert words, which makes it more like an art than a science.

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King Charles V the Wise commissions a translation of Aristotle. First square shows his ordering the translation; second square, the translation being made. Third and fourth squares show the finished translation being brought to, and then presented to, the King.
Rosetta Stone, a secular icon for the art of translation
John Dryden
Cicero
Samuel Johnson
Martin Luther
Johann Gottfried Herder
Ignacy Krasicki
Buddhist Diamond Sutra, translated into Chinese by Kumārajīva: world's oldest known dated printed book (868 CE)
Perry Link
Muhammad Abduh
Dryden
Schleiermacher
Venuti
Mark Twain back-translated his own story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County".
Hernán Cortés and La Malinche meet Moctezuma II in Tenochtitlan, 8 November 1519.
Lin Shu
Claude Piron
Geoffrey Chaucer
Marsilio Ficino
Edward FitzGerald
Benjamin Jowett
Hofstadter
Nabokov
Mistranslation: Michelangelo's horned Moses
Chinese translation, verses 33–34 of Quran's surah (chapter) 36

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