| 释义 |
target language
[f. target n.1 + language n.]
a. The language into which a translation is made.
1953Philos. Sci. XX. 217 Imagine an utterly moronic student without the slightest knowledge of either the source-language or the target-language, i.e., the language into which the given text is to be translated. 1959[see language n. 1 d]. 1969P. B. Jordain Condensed Computer Encycl. 515 In assembly and compiler operations, a programmer-oriented language is converted to a target language for execution on the computer. 1976Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics Spring 96 A translator needs to have deciphered the ambiguity in a given sentence..in order to be able to translate it, provided of course that this sentence does not have a syntactic homonym in the target language.
b. A foreign language which it is aimed to learn or acquire.
1965P. Strevens Papers in Lang. & Lang. Teaching viii. 103 The difficulties..vary according to the learner's mother-tongue as well as his target-language. 1973K. A. Sey Ghanaian English ii. 22 Lacking the native speaker's linguistic intuitions, the L2 speaker has to depend on his limited acquaintance with the target language. 1976Word 1971 XXVII. 351 Integratively oriented students are more strongly motivated and more successful in learning the target language than instrumentally oriented students. |