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
  • By the fourth century, there was even a Bible translation in the vulgate.
    Fay Vincent, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Google said its translation tool is also enabled on the Google Translate app.
    Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2024
  • The concept was hard to explain — there was a word for it in Italian but Gherardo couldn’t come up with the English translation.
    Devin Friedman, Travel + Leisure, 11 Nov. 2023
  • The proceedings have been slow because of the sheer scope of the case, the labyrinthine justice system and the laborious demands of translation.
    Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 12 July 2023
  • In recent years, Kundera allowed the translation of his late works in French into Czech.
    Lori Hinnant and Elaine Ganley, USA TODAY, 12 July 2023
  • Wright never griped to the producers about Ginny’s role being reduced in the translation from book to screen.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 30 Aug. 2023
  • But what truly won us over is the real-time translation: Listening to someone speak in a foreign language as their words, translated to English, hover over their head truly feels like living in the future.
    Tim Stevens, Robb Report, 17 Sep. 2024

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