“Translate” means “turn (word, sentence, book, etc.) from one
language into another, expressing
sense of it in another form of words”.
---The Oxford Illustrated Dictionary , 1975, p903
to turn into one’s own or another language
(转换成本族语或另一种语言)
--- Webster’s third New International Dictionary of the English Language
“Translating consists in reproducing in the receptor language the closest natural equivalent of the source-language message, first in terms of meaning and secondly in terms of style. ”
Translation may be defined as follows: The replacement of textural material in one language (SL) by equivalent textual material in another language. (TL).
翻译是“把一种语言已经表达出来的东西用另一种语言准确而完整地重新表达出来”。

（范存忠：“漫谈翻译”《翻译理论与技巧》中国对外翻译出版公司，1985，p.80）
翻译是运用一种语言把另一种语言所表达的思想内容准确而完整的重新表达出来的语言活动。

（张培基，《英汉翻译教程》上海外语教育出版社，1986：1）
A: T ranslation is a rendering from one language into another, i.e., the faithful representation in one language of what is written or said in another language.
B: T ranslating consists in reproducing in the receptor language the closest natural equivalent of the source-language message, first in terms of meaning and secondly in terms of style. (Nida)
Translation is science; (语言学派)
翻译是语言学的分支
Translation is art;（文艺学派）
翻译是文学再创作的过程
Translation is skill;
Translation is cross-cultural communication
My definition:
Translation is a process of communication；Translation is a reproduction；Translation is a craft.。