Considering Machine Translation (MT) as an Aid or a Threat to the Human Translator:

The present study aims to evaluate the output quality of an online MT; namely, Google Translate, from English into Persian and compare its with translations made by human translators find out that whether MT applications are considered as aid or a threat translators. For application study, researcher designed translation test consisting 60 statements different types texts proposed Reiss (1989). was translated via Translate administrated three be rendered. alongside were given 40 judges evaluated based on Dorr et al. s' (2010) criterion assessment, including semantic adequacy, fluency, understandability. As results indicated, gave good overall performance in terms adequacy understandability, but not fluency. Thus, there should no fear being replaced MT. conclusion, cannot translators, for them. also offers some recommendations can beneficial students, trainee teachers, professional