At the time of the Beerbohm translation Boulestin was already a writer and journalist of some experience.Many of the poems are translations, but the sounds and rhythms are similar to the original language.We consider it most likely, that alternative translation initiation is the mechanism for generation of the N-Oct 5 proteins.It turns out that he used a translation that modern translators judge to have been inaccurate.an English/French etc translation He wrote the first English translation of Homer’s 'Iliad'. a literal translation (=one in which each word is translated exactly ) First make a literal translation and then try and put it into idiomatic English. an accurate/exact translation The most accurate translation of the word would be ‘master’. adjectives a rough/free translation (=one that is not very exact ) It’s a rough translation but I think the meaning is clear. 2 formal CHANGE FROM ONE THING TO ANOTHER the process of changing something into a different form COLLOCATIONS verbs do/make a translation of something She had done a translation of the poem. Much of the book’s humour has been lost in translation (=is no longer effective when translated ). I’ve only read ‘Madame Bovary’ in translation (=not in its original language ). S3 noun 1 TRANSLATE when you translate something, or something that has been translated translation of a new translation of the Bible translation from a literal translation from Arabic She read the letter and gave us a rough translation (=she did not translate everything exactly ).From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English translation trans‧la‧tion / trænsˈleɪʃ ən, trænz- /