Translation involves source language and target language, it is a semiotic transformation.

翻译涉及了原语语言和译语语言，实质上是一种符号转换。

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The essential characteristics of source language and target language should not be ignored when stylistic translation is discussed.

探讨文体翻译，不能无视源语与目的语的本质特征。

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Code-to-code translation and its problems are argued, then re-engineering is introduced to solve the incompatibility between source language and target language.

讨论了代码翻译及在代码翻译中出现的问题，及怎样用再工程的思想来解决源语言和目标语言不兼容的问题。

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It does so using a dictionary and a comparative grammar a set of rules that describes the difference between each sentence component in the source language and its counterpart in the target language.

ECONOMIST: A gift of tongues

Linguistic-knowledge translators have two sets of grammatical rules one for the source language and one for the target.

ECONOMIST: A gift of tongues