'she translated it' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to indicate that someone has translated something from one language to another. For example, "My mother speaks Spanish, so when I showed her the letter in English, she translated it into Spanish for me."
It seems picky to complain, since she translated it herself, with Pierre Guglielmina, a noted translator into French.
She translated: "It means he's not a fool to anybody.
Her commitment was never divorced from reality: she translated it, pleasantly but firmly, into everyday life and work.
When I didn't understand a question, she translated it from medical-ese.
When individuals were asked to believe a religion in a language that they could not understand, she translated it for them.
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll has been working like that for most of her life: first in Colombia, where she emerged from the Caribbean coastal city of Barranquilla as a teenage "rockera" — she translates it as "rock chick" — and eventually as the globe-hopping star who may well be Latin America's most famous performer.
I did not know Ibykos, or his Fragment 286, but she has translated it straight and then rewritten it in various ways, including in the manner of John Donne, as an FBI report on Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett's Endgame, Franz Kafka ("One is condemned to life not death") and "stops and signs from the London Underground".
She considered, she says, translating it into English to perform on this tour, until she realised it came out as "I come and go in between your kidneys".
"If you take a spot that isn't culturally relevant and just translated it, it wouldn't work," she said.
He would make a concept drawing, and she would translate it into a three-dimensional clay sculpture.
The Iranian government will probably not allow "Persepolis" to be sold there, Ms. Satrapi said, but she might translate it into Farsi and put it on the Web, which is widely used by young Iranians.
