translate (something) from (something)
translate (something) from (something)
To adapt the meaning of some piece of speech or writing from its original language (into a different language). The phrase "into something" can be used before or after "from something" to specify the different language. I was hired to translate the company's technical documents from Russian into English. You can learn a lot of idioms and slang by translating song lyrics from French. We've been trying to translate these texts into English from Ancient Greek.
See also: translate
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- translate
- translate (something) from (something) into (something)
- translate (something) into (something) from (something)
- from my cold, dead hands
- eggs is eggs
- How long is a piece of string?
- how/what about...?
- how about
- (as) sure as eggs (is eggs)
- adapt to