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Collocations for translation - noun

ADJECTIVE

accurate, correct, exact, faithful, good
approximate, free, loose, rough
bad, poor
direct, literal, word-for-word
prose, verse
literary, poetic, vernacular
English, Japanese, etc.
simultaneous
There will be simultaneous translation in English and Chinese.
automatic, machine
advances in machine translation

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VERB + translation

do, make, produce
I have a translation to do for Friday.
She tried making her own translation of the contract.
provide
work on
read
survive
The poems do not survive the translation into English.
A great writer survives any translation.

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translation + VERB

read
The translation of the Latin motto reads ‘Not for oneself, but for others’.

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translation + NOUN

process
service, work
facilities (esp. BrE)
equivalent

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PREPOSITION

in translation
I read the book in translation.
translation from, translation into
Simultaneous translation into English is available to delegates.

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PHRASES

lose sth in
The irony is lost in translation.

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