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Mandarin · pinyin yì jiè

to introduce (a book etc) to people who don't read the language in which it was written by translating it

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介: jiè · forerunner, herald, harbinger; to lie between; sea shell; to wear armor
译: yì · translate; decode; encode

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4–4 · yi4 jie4

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(translation studies) to translate and introduce

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