As blood from the digestive organs passes through the hepatic portal circulation, the hepatocytes of the liver monitor the contents of the blood and remove many potentially toxic substances before they can reach the rest of the body.
In Geometry, Translation simply means Moving ... ... without rotating, resizing or anything else, just moving. To Translate a shape: Every point of the shape must move: the same distance. in the same direction.
That means the process of converting one language into another is equivalent to finding the transformation that converts one vector space into the other. This turns the problem of translation from one of linguistics into one of mathematics.