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.
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All the Lovers in the Night is a new novel, once more a translation from Bett and Boyd.
—Idra Novey, The Atlantic, 22 May 2022
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Read on for a breakdown of what’s changed in the translation from page to screen.
—Keely Weiss, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Aug. 2021
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This was one of our favorite translations of the evening’s dandy theme.
—Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 6 May 2025
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But the rough translation of the full plot leak tells us the villains will be reformed.
—Chris Smith, BGR, 7 Dec. 2021
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How can this be useful in the translation to the public?
—Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2022
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On the back was the name written in Hebrew and its translation: Bee.
—Washington Post, 8 May 2021
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Their first task was a translation of the game’s Star Wars-style opening scroll.
—Aidan Moher, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2023
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The best part: Use your phone to take pictures and the app provides a translation for the object in the photo.
—BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2021
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So the image as a whole, read from left to right, is a visual translation of a pow wow song.
—New York Times, 23 Apr. 2021
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The translation from page to screen made the details all the more disturbing.
—Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2021
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Four more translations from the author are in the pipeline.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
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Double-click on a single word for a white text box to show the translation.
—Reece Rogers, Wired, 31 Mar. 2022
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In the United States, about 3% of all books published are works in translation.
—Emily Burack, Town & Country, 23 Feb. 2022
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Set aside some time to listen, ask for translation, and learn.
—Josh Feldman, Quartz, 2 Apr. 2021
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Life might require a bit of translation for the time being.
—Chicago Tribune, 9 Sep. 2022
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The new find represents one of the earliest translations of the Gospels.
—Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 11 Apr. 2023
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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
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The whole thing was just a poor, diluted translation of the Hebrew word.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2024
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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
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By the fourth century, there was even a Bible translation in the vulgate.
—Fay Vincent, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2022
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The translation is that Watson could play now if a team wanted him.
—BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2021
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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
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Screens on either side of the black box stage provide the English translation.
—Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2023
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Of course, the word-imagery is less compelling in translation.
—Siva Sithraputhran, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2021
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But the flavor, the gusto, of the endeavor gets lost in translation.
—Todd Pitock, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2022
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The videos are all in Russian but come with Chinese translations.
—Yong Xiong, Todd Symons, CNN Money, 29 Apr. 2025
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Those might not always align because of how comedy ages, which underscores how hard a medium comedy is in terms of translation over time.
—Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 4 Aug. 2025
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Dennis Washburn, a professor at Dartmouth College, writes in an introduction to his 2015 translation (in my opinion the best one, with its clear and accessible prose).
—Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2025
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