Laravel 5.5.44 and Symfony/translation broken

Somehow I have different versions of symfony/translation on my dev box and test server.

My dev box is at 3.4.0 but my test server is on 4.0.0.

Composer on both is

"laravel/framework": "5.5.*",

Laravel version 5.5.44 is installed on both as shown by artisan --version.

The problem is that translation 4.0.0 apparently requires greater than php 7.0.8 and we have 7.0.32 installed on both machines.

I have tried to fix this by clearing the vendor folder and composer update and composer install but I keep getting the newer version of translation. Is there a way to fix this?

Trying to avoid the php update.

Thanks.

via Chebli Mohamed