Lost in Translation Just got a assignment, boss asked me to translate user guide which concerns about meta-analysis. Since I didn't learn much about medical statistics and evidence-based medicine, the translation work is despairing. To tell the truth, I don't think translation is necessary during the study, the languages between each other have some many difference, it's hardly to interpret into the original meaning and sometimes it's boring or weird to translate directly. People say it's better to understand and think about the vocabulary in its own language, try to understand its own way, don't fit it into ur native language. I wonder whether this opinion is correct.