Betekenis van interpret In het Nederlands

• 0 to decide what the intended meaning of something is:

  • It's difficult to interpret these statistics without knowing how they were obtained.

  • A jury should not interpret the silence of a defendant as a sign of guilt.

• 1 to express your own ideas about the intended meaning of a play or a piece of music when performing it:

  • If Shakespeare's plays are to reach a large audience they need to be interpreted in a modern style.

• 2 to change what someone is saying into another language:

  • We had to ask our guide to interpret for us.

• 3 to describe the meaning of something; examine in order to explain:

  • It’s difficult to interpret these statistics without knowing how they were obtained.

• 4 to change what someone is saying into the words of another language; translate:

  • [ I ] I had to ask someone to interpret for me because I don’t know any Italian.