All 11 Uses
interpret
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Story of My Life
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- Until then I had been like a foreigner speaking through an interpreter.†
Chpt 9 *interpreter = someone who translates language
- It is an unspeakable boon to me to be able to speak in winged words that need no interpretation.†
Chpt 13interpretation = a particular understanding or explanation
- Its people, scenery, manners, joys, tragedies should be living, tangible interpreters of the real world.†
Chpt 20interpreters = people who explain or understand things in a particular way
- For one short hour you are permitted to drink in the eternal beauty of the old masters without needless interpretation or exposition.†
Chpt 20interpretation = a particular understanding or explanation
- But when a great scholar like Professor Kittredge interprets what the master said, it is "as if new sight were given the blind."
Chpt 20 *interprets = explains (something in a particular way)
- I used to try to remember their interpretations, but they discouraged and vexed me; so I made a secret compact with myself not to try any more.
Chpt 21interpretations = explanations
- At the Cambridge School the plan was to have Miss Sullivan attend the classes with me and interpret to me the instruction given.†
Chpt 18
- Miss Sullivan was obliged to read all the books to me, and interpret for the instructors, and for the first time in eleven years it seemed as if her dear hand would not be equal to the task.†
Chpt 19
- Miss Sullivan interpreted his instruction.†
Chpt 19
- Great poetry, whether written in Greek or in English, needs no other interpreter than a responsive heart.†
Chpt 21
- But Hugo and Goethe and Schiller and all great poets of all great nations are interpreters of eternal things, and my spirit reverently follows them into the regions where Beauty and Truth and Goodness are one.†
Chpt 21
Definitions:
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(1)
(interpret as in: interpret Spanish to English) to translate someone’s words into spoken words of another language while they are speaking
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(2)
(interpret as in: her interpretation of the data) to understand or explain something in a particular way -- often the meaning or significance of something
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(3)
(interpret as in: her musical interpretation) capture someone else's ideas, or express personal artistic ideas or feelings while performing someone else's work
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)