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Translation unit - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Amplification, Apotheosis, Ascension, Assumption, Avatar, Catabolism, Catalysis, Change, Communication, Conduction, Consubstantiation, Contagion, Convection, Conversion, Crib, Decipherment, Decoding, Delivery, Deportation, Diffusion, Dispatch, Displacement |
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In the field of translation, a translation unit is a segment of a text which the translator treats as a single cognitive unit for the purposes of establishing an equivalence. The translation unit may be a single word, or it may be a phrase, one or more sentences, or even a larger unit.
When a translator segments a text into translation units, the larger these units are, the better chance there is of obtaining an idiomatic translation. This is true not only of human translation, but also in cases where human translators use computer-assisted translation, such as translation memories, and also when translations are performed by machine translation systems.
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Example Usage of Translation |
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momobreaksyou: @centurys lol I have the worst headache of my life is the Translation |
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Aspelkamp: Translation for my English followers: Today I feel like an eel that has been skinned and then put back into its own skin. For lack of bath. |
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Skardalien: @sohangchan I borrowed an English Translation of Bleach from one of the students. I don't know where he got it from, but he has all of them. |
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