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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
roughly
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To the uninitiated that roughly translates as a drinking establishment with thumping rock music and brash videos crammed with hordes of fun-seekers.
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It means, I think, roughly translated: Mountaineers always have guns.
usually
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The Logos is usually translated as the Word, but it has a stronger meaning.
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In the case of exchanges it usually translates into a general contractual duty to act fairly.
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Another early concept was that of the Ba, which is usually translated as meaning the soul.
■ NOUN
action
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It will consider how the people's will is translated into political action .
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Keep that in mind because without it all the fine planning in the world will never be translated into action .
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The third functional activity is that of spending when decisions are translated into action where, for example, goods are actually purchased.
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Once you have made this list, translate these negative actions into positive ones.
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The important thing about the Bible is that its words be translated into actions .
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Here people accept the importance of regular exercise but it is not clear if they are translating the message into action .
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Cast ells was particularly weak on the question of how such contradictions were translated into social action .
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The purpose of the organisation needs to be translated into management actions .
book
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He now lives in London with Flora Drew, who has expertly translated his book .
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He was later to become owner of a Beirut company that dubbed educational films and translated technical books into Arabic.
form
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All have been translated into successful choreographic form .
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Once she translated words into picture form , she also found that her comprehension improved as well.
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Once the Conservatives came to power in 1979 the unrest began to be translated into policy form .
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He has their virtues translated into masculine form .
idea
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Once I got home I translated the idea into a pressed flower design.
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From then onwards I have liked drawing the ideas that come to me, and translating every idea into an image.
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There are, however, some anthropologists who have tried to translate Dollard's ideas into social terms.
information
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The first drugs attacked the copying enzyme in the hope that if the virus could not translate its information it would fail.
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If we translate analogue information into a digital form, we can suddenly manipulate it freely in almost any way we wish.
language
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If the need arises, the Profile will be translated into other languages .
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The novel became an international best-seller and was translated into 19 languages .
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His work has been translated into several languages and has received widespread international acclaim.
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With an expanding share of business overseas, Hollywood has to produce movies that translate easily into any language .
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Can topics be translated into languages which are not topic-prominent?
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In that office he translated the old church language about a sense of mission, redirecting it to the nation.
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Well, it has been translated into 18 languages .
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It sold more than 1 million copies and was translated into four other languages .
policy
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Once the Conservatives came to power in 1979 the unrest began to be translated into policy form.
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Constructive ideals of training and rehabilitation were translated into penal policies that appeared to be meeting their objectives.
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Alienism obstructs the progress of deaf people aiming to become professionals in education, because it is subsequently translated into policy .
practice
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Corporately teachers can plan and develop strategies, translate them into practice and monitor and evaluate their effect.
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What they write can also make a difference to the way the legal plans for the curriculum are translated into classroom practice .
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However, the theory of unalloyed benefit to plants does not translate into practice .
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Even so their contribution to the mechanisms whereby the new images were translated from theory to practice needs to be recognized.
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Whether it translates into practice depends on a number of imponderables.
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The Government have capitulated on principle, but they have made a terrible mess of translating the principle into practice .
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The ideology of equality, even when translated into good institutional practice , may result only in impersonality.
reality
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Just as Sylvia had eventually to translate her visualization into reality , so too did Clive.
word
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The important thing about the Bible is that its words be translated into actions.
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But if Government words translate into action, they hope their suffering will not be shared by others.
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This process will inevitably continue down the system to the point where the words are actually translated into teaching acts.
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These are the formal rules by which the graphemes which form words are translated into the code used for pronunciation.
■ VERB
need
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By the way, you never tell me why you needed the strange paragraph translated .
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And then he pointed out that he would need me to translate for him with students and the authorities.
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The purpose of the organisation needs to be translated into management actions.
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He spoke Arabic now without strain and from the inside, not needing to translate , thinking in the Arabic mode.
try
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I have tried to translate them for you.
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Raju had been valiantly trying to translate what was said with limited success.
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Unfortunately, there is no word for hinge in Sesotho and Father George had a tough time trying to translate .
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I try to translate the movement in that.
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It would be premature - and misleading - to try to translate these slowly shifting attitudes into a readiness for dramatic change.
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There are, however, some anthropologists who have tried to translate Dollard's ideas into social terms.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Can you translate this into French?
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Hollywood has to produce movies that translate easily into any language.
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Michael Meyer translated the play from the original Norwegian.
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No one else spoke French, so I had to translate .
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She has translated a number of his books.
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The best translators usually translate from a foreign language into their native language.
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The book has been translated into 27 languages.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Already, we have technology that can take text and translate it into a computerized speaking voice.
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But its unremitting intensity and massive repetition do not translate easily.
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Here people accept the importance of regular exercise but it is not clear if they are translating the message into action.
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His research material is based on ancient and Sumerian texts, which he translates himself.
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Professor Ito translates for the others.
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That disgust is translated into violent purging by vomiting or laxatives.
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That would translate to £10,750 for a 13-week term.