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⇑Translation and Interpreting at Heriot-Watt University

Language: English Studies in English

Kind of studies: full-time studies, part-time studies

University website: www.hw.ac.uk

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Translation

Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The English language draws a terminological distinction (not all languages do) between translating (a written text) and interpreting (oral or sign-language communication between users of different languages); under this distinction, translation can begin only after the appearance of writing within a language community.

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Translation

A good poet is no more like himself in a dull translation than his carcass would be to his living body.

John Dryden, Preface to Sylvae, or the Second Part of Poetical Miscellanies (1685).

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Translation

Translation is at best an echo.

George Borrow, Lavengro (1851), Ch. 25, p. 151.

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Translation it is that openeth the window, to let in the light; that breaketh the shell, that we may eat the kernel; that putteth aside the curtain, that we may look into the most Holy place; that removeth the cover of the well, that we may come by the water.

The King James Bible (Authorized Version, 1611), 'The Translators to the Reader'

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