The problem is when you're translating all the time and you're translating word by word.

问题是，你一直在翻译，而且是字翻译的。

When you learn individual words, you are more likely to translate word by word.

当你习单个单词时，你更有可能字翻译。

Absolutely, anything like numbers, names, places, have to be noted down, but the rest is never translated word for word.

当然了，像数字、名字、地点等这些信息都需要记录下来，但是其他的信息就决不能再字句地翻译了。

So, idiomatic translations would be translations that express the idea, not just the individual words.

所以，惯用语的翻译就是表达出意思，而不仅仅是字翻译。

So not word for word, but pretty close.

所以不是字句的翻译，但非常接近。

Standing off to the side, apparently translating every word, this woman.

站在一旁，显然在字翻译，这个女。

If you translate them literally, you lose the reference in there to the history of the peoples.

如果你字翻译，你会失去其中对这些民族历史的引用。

" To reproduce the rhymes and yet translate the entire poem literally is mathematically impossible, " he wrote.

他写道：“重现韵律并字翻译整首诗从数上来说是不可能的。”

Then read what exactly this word means, not a word by word translation into your mother tongue but the full description in English which gives a much better explanation.

然后阅读这个词的确切意思，不是字翻译成你的母语，而是用英语给出的完整描述，给出一个更好的解释。

For idioms, for chunks that have to be word for word that might not make sense as far as grammar and what the words actually mean.

对于惯用语，对于那些必须字翻译且从语法和词语实际含义来看可能没有意义的固定短语。

I would ask a question, they would translate the question into Spanish to check they'd understood, and then give the answer in Spanish and translate back into English, often word by word.

我问一个问题，他们会把问题翻译成西班牙语来确认他们是否听懂了，然后用西班牙语给出答案，并字翻译成英语。

Making sure that we've got the wrinkling working well, how the muzzle inflates, how still he is when he says his line, sometimes that isn't a dead translation.

确保皱纹效果良好， 鼻头如何膨胀，说台词时他有多么静止， 有时这并不是字翻译。

That's right, so don't try to translate it directly or literally because it's not gonna make sense so just remember this as a phrasal verb or a phrase in general exactly all right.

那是对的，所以不要试图直接或字翻译，因为那样没有意义，就记住这个作为一个短语动词或一个短语就好。