translate
verb (used with object)
to turn from one language into another or from a foreign language into one's own.
had translated
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past perfectof translate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Jeff had translated a recent Wall Street Journal opinion column—Matthew Hennessey’s “The Future is Not Chinese”—into Chinese and forwarded it to a WeChat group of his old high-school classmates back in China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
After his divorce from Nesbit, Richard Gilman married Yasuko Shiojiri, who had translated his books into Japanese.
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2023
By the 1970s, environmental concerns had translated into political action.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
By then, Amazon had added a Chinese e-book store to its American website and had translated 19 books.
From Reuters ● Dec. 17, 2021
Delacruz had translated into Spanish from an English translation of Anne Frank’s original Dutch.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
