Translation is an effort of finding equivalent meaning of a text into the second language.
We emphasis meaning equivalence since in translation meaning is the object to be rendered from the source language text into the target language text.
Translation is more than just changing the words from one language to another.
Translation builds bridges between cultures.
It allows you to experience cultural phenomena that would otherwise be too foreign and remote to grasp through your own cultural lens.
It is based upon the principle that the translator must first know the meaning of the source text before he can translate it into the receptor language.
Meaning is presented as a structure which stands behind any text.
Meaning-based, rather than form-based, translation is the goal of the textbook.