How to Use translation in a Sentence

translation

noun

• She is working on a translation of the novel.
• There were English translations on the menu.
• Their first task was a translation of the game’s Star Wars-style opening scroll.
  — Aidan Moher, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2023
• Four more translations from the author are in the pipeline.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
• Life might require a bit of translation for the time being.
  — Chicago Tribune, 9 Sep. 2022
• The new find represents one of the earliest translations of the Gospels.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 11 Apr. 2023
• The text is similar to the King James translation of the Bible used in many Protestant churches.
  — Charles J. Russo, The Conversation, 4 June 2024
• The whole thing was just a poor, diluted translation of the Hebrew word.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2024
• First of all, Kevin [Feige] didn't want to make a literal translation of what was in the comic book.
  — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 14 July 2022
• By the fourth century, there was even a Bible translation in the vulgate.
  — Fay Vincent, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2022
• But the award placed the book at the center of a fierce debate about literary translations.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2024
• Screens on either side of the black box stage provide the English translation.
  — Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2023
• But the flavor, the gusto, of the endeavor gets lost in translation.
  — Todd Pitock, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2022
• Her cloned voice can only be used for this book’s translations.
  — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2024
• True to the name's translation, the bag became Diana's favorite.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 16 Nov. 2023
• About that … By the looks of Kunz’s hands, something about tug-of-war being an injury-free sport was lost in translation.
  — Joseph Goodman, al, 14 July 2022
• Refugee students must now make the switch to French, and government forms need translation.
  — Nick Roll, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2023
• But if the user came back a month later, the model wouldn’t instantly know how to do the same translation.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2024
• In those cases, the team will hold a three-way call with Language Line staff who provide translation.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 23 Jan. 2023
• That last phrase, by the way, had U.K. newspapers scrambling for a translation.
  — Greg Palkot, Fox News, 8 July 2022
• Perhaps via the word-to-word translation of a German joke about a shoemaker.
  — Sam Corbin, New York Times, 14 May 2023
• The series’ success in Ukraine was partly down to the high quality of its translation.
  — Maria Varenikova, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• Tynedale paid for his assertive, personal translation with a one-way visit to the stake.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 18 Jan. 2024
• In one instance, small adjustments to the translation were made to provide context that would have been clear to the speaker.
  — New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
• As with all great acts of translation, Mullen’s methods may be unknowable to us.
  — Vulture, 9 Feb. 2023
• When a 10-year-old boy who loves something more than life itself can’t wait to get out there and do it, things lose meaning in translation.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Sep. 2022
• As far as the statement about 2024, perhaps something was lost in translation.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 4 Aug. 2022
• An English translation of the book was published for the first time in 2021 with an introduction by Neil Gaiman.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 13 Dec. 2022
• Even so, machine translation is still clunky at times, if not awkward.
  — Blake Snow, WIRED, 5 May 2024
• This documentary shows the efforts to trace back to how the translation happened, and its impact since.
  — Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024