Google Translate generally seems to fare badly if you want to fine-tweak the translation or explore alternative meanings and things like that – at most it seems

Google Translate generally seems to fare badly if you want to fine-tweak the translation or explore alternative meanings and things like that – at most it seems to usually offer a single alternative translation per sentence, and that's that. If your language pair is supported by deepl.com, give that one a try – it offers alternative translations at a much more fine-grained level, down to individual words, and usually offers much more than just one single alternative.