"read the advertisement"; "Have you read Salman Rushdie?"
"The King will read the proclamation at noon"
"She read the sky and predicted rain"; "I can't read his strange behavior"; "The fortune teller read his fate in the crystal ball"
"He is auditioning for `Julius Caesar' at Stratford this year"
"I read you loud and clear!"
"She is reading for the bar exam"
"The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read `empty'"
"The passage reads as follows"; "What does the law say?"
"This dictionary can be read by the computer"
"I read this address as a satire"; "How should I take this message?"
"She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?"
"the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power"
"poetry often does not translate"; "Tolstoy's novels translate well into English"
"Can you translate the instructions in this manual for a layman?"; "Is there a need to translate the psychiatrist's remarks?"
"I have to translate when my in-laws from Austria visit the U.S."; "Can you interpret the speech of the visiting dignitaries?"; "She rendered the French poem into English"; "He translates for the U.N."