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Usage examples of "translates".
He first translates the complex gill and siphon withdrawal behaviour of the intact organism into a circuit which habituates as a result of interactions between just two cells.
Such models work like machine-translation systems, which, given a sentence in French, can convert it to its English equivalent, even though the way a machine translates from one language to another in no way resembles how people may carry out a similar task.
I am saying is that changed biochemistry translates into changed physiology just as it does into changed behaviour.
Longfellow translates a new verse in the next room, there could be another murder and we will have been powerless to stop it.