munun (Meaning and Proces fEnglish Translation) l. Translation may be defined as follows: the replacement of textual material in one language (sL) by equivalent textual material in another language (TL). (Catford, 1965: 2) 2. Translation consists in reproducing in the receptor language the closest natural equivalent of the source language message, first in the terms of meaning and secondly in the terms of style. (Nida and Taber (1969: 12) 3. Translation is a craft consisting in the attempt to replace a written message and/or statement in one language by the same message and/or statement in another language. (Meetham and Hudson, 1972: 713) 4. Translation is the expression in another language (or the target language) of what has been expressed in another, source language, preserving semantic and stylistic equivalences. (Dubois 1974) 4. Translation is the interpreting of the meaning of a text and the subsequent production of a equivalent text, that communicates the same message in another language. The text to be translated called the source text, and the language that is to be translated into is called the target language; th final product is sometimes called the target text.