Trados: Create a new translation memory for my project

A translation project in termbase may use translation memories (TM) and/or termbases. We should use both TM and termbases for our translation projects.

Difference between Translation Memory, Termbase and Machine Translation

Termbase: Contain entries which usually are translations of words (entries) in two or several languages.
For example:

Entry #2103:
  └English: challenge
  └Japanese: チャレンジ
  └Japanese: 挑戦
  └Vietnamese: thử sức
  └Vietnamese: khiêu chiến

Translation Memory: Store pairs of sentences in 2 languages (source language and target language).
For example TM with Japanese as source language and Vietnamese as target language:

  ┌Source text: 先に失礼します。
  └Target text: Tôi xin phép về trước ạ.

You must translate yourself these sentences for the first time (e.g. human translation).

Machine Translation: Translation done by machine e.g. automatic translation (not human translation).

You can see detail explanation in FAQ about TM below.

Here's method to create a new TM for working project in Trados SDL.

Step 1: Click 'Translation memories' (bottom left) then 'New' (drop down) > New Translation Memory

Step 2: New Translation Memory

Trados termbase: How to add a descriptive field to term level

I've created a termbase with 3 languages: Vietnamese, Japanese and English. I also added a descriptive field called "note" to entry level, but this field is not so useful. Now, I want to add a field named "usage" to term level so I can add example sentence to see how term can be used.

Vietnamese: Thêm trường mô tả cho mỗi thuật ngữ trong Trados
日本語：トラドス用語ベースの用語レベルに説明用フィールドを追加する方法

My Ideal: I can add 'usage' field (example sentences of usage) for each term

It should look like this:

Each term will have a field call "Usage" to add example sentences of its usage.

Entry level, Language level, Term level

Trados SDL termbase will have 3 levels:

Entry level => Language Level => Term level

You can add descriptive fields to each and all these 3 levels. In above image, I have "note" field for Entry level, and "Usage" for Term level (which I explain how to add in this article) and no descriptive fields for Language level (though I can add later as explained in this post).

Here's the flow of adding a descriptive field "Usage" to term level step by step.

Step 0: Back up your termbase first

Difference between "test" and "check": How to translate "test" and "check" into Vietnamese

"Test"

テスト：良い結果になるかわからないため、検査／試行を行う。

Test: Do a trial to see if something runs well or not.

"Check"

チェック：良い結果になる前提で検査／試行を行う。

Check: Run a trial to confirm the result is good.

How to translate "test" and "check" into Vietnamese

「テスト」と「チェック」をベトナム語に翻訳する方法

「テスト／チェック」のベトナム語翻訳

Japanese	Vietnamese	English
テスト	kiểm tra chạy thử kiểm tra thử thử	test
チェック	kiểm tra kiểm tra xác nhận xác nhận	check