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直译

zhíyì

literal translation

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

literal translation

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 直译 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 直译 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

我没有把英语直译成日语。wǒ méi yǒu bǎ yīng yǔ zhí yì chéng rì yǔ。

I didn't literally translate from English into Japanese.

我们知道这很困难,但请不要直译。wǒ men zhī dào zhè hěn kùn nán, dàn qǐng bú yào zhí yì。

We know it's difficult, but please don't translate literally.

直译还是自由发挥都不影响这段想表达的。zhí yì hái shì zì yóu fā huī dōu bù yǐng xiǎng zhè duàn xiǎng biǎo dá de。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 直译.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 直译.

Directly before

  • 英语直译1
  • 不要直译1

Directly after

  • 直译成1
  • 直译还是1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 直译

What does 直译 mean in Chinese?

直译 (zhíyì) means literal translation.

How do you pronounce 直译?

直译 is pronounced zhíyì.

Is 直译 an HSK word?

直译 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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