If something that someone has said or written is translated from one language into another, it is said or written again in the second language.

If a name, a word, or an expression translates as something in a different language, that is what it means in that language.

If one thing translates or is translated into another, the second happens or is done as a result of the first.

If you say that a remark, a gesture, or an action translates as something, or that you translate it as something, you decide that this is what its significance is.