Step-By-Step Guide to AI Translation: Understanding Deep Meanings

After the first installment of “Step-By-Step Guide to AI Translation”, I believe everyone has gained a preliminary understanding of this new service of AI large model translation. In the following articles, we will teach you how to utilize AI translation to solve translation problems in work and learning.

This article focuses on teaching you how to utilizeAI translation to convey the deep and unique meanings contained in the original text, bidding farewell to the common “translation tone” issues found in machine translation.

In work and study, we often need to translate documents. However, how to produce high-quality translations often troubles us.

• Translating by oneself is too time-consuming and labor-intensive.

• Hiring a translation company is expensive and the quality varies greatly.

• Machine translation often fails to grasp the deep meanings and tends to be overly literal.

Translation is a vast and profound discipline; it is not just a conversion of language symbols but also a communication of culture.

When we use traditional machine translation, we sometimes find that the translation results are too literal and do not reflect the hidden meanings behind the original text. This is because traditional machine translation sometimes fails to understand the expression differences between the source language and the target language well, resulting in translations that cannot accurately convey the original meaning.

Imagine, you are reading an imaginative expression in Chinese. However, when translating this article into English, the translation loses the poetic quality of the original and even deviates from its meaning.

The original text “飞九天” is a metaphor, indicating a state of transcendence and pursuit of higher goals. We should translate it based on the context of the Chinese language rather than simply translating it to “Nine days” in English.

The original sentence uses a metaphor, using “鸡飞狗跳” to indicate a chaotic situation, not literally meaning that chickens flew and dogs ran away, so the machine translation “chickens will fly and dogs will run wild” is incorrect.

Due to its powerful understanding and logical abilities, the large model often better understands the deep meanings of the original language and finds more suitable expressions in the target language.

At the same time,it can generate translations that better meet your needs through continuous interaction with you, achieving interactive enhanced translation. This provides an extraordinary experience that surpasses traditional machine translation.

Taking the first sentence as an example, below is the translation provided by the AI large model. The translation indicates that the original meaning refers to “China’s Dream soars”, which is “China’s Dream soars”, and it also uses “beyond the highest heaven” to vividly express flying high, soaring to the ninth heaven.

We can also ask the large model why it translated this way.

Isn’t it clear and accurate overall, except for the somewhat ambiguous reference in the statement “there is no direct corresponding word for ‘飞’ in English”?

Now let’s look at the second sentence. For sentences with many metaphors and deep meanings, we can instruct the large model to use “free translation” to let it express the true meaning of the original text.

That is, “母慈子孝” means “parents and children coexist harmoniously”; “鸡飞狗跳” means “chaos ensues”.

Similarly, we can also ask the large model for the basis of its translation.

Doesn’t it seem very reasonable?

In addition to mastering the context semantics and the characteristics of Chinese culture, AI translation also performs excellently in understanding word meanings, terminology comprehension, and verification.

It can understand user prompts and accurately grasp where to apply the meanings of the user prompts. In the following example, the large model translated the last “summer” based on the prompt as ‘like summer’.

Moreover, it can automatically translate to reflect the unique style of the text based on the original text’s attributes. The original text is an advertisement slogan; doesn’t the translation also resemble an advertising phrase?

It can translate paragraphs with mixed languages and understand philosophical terms. In the example below, there are English and German, and it is a philosophical content. The large model can translate it correctly.

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