translation

Example Sentences

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Disney’s official translation of the opening phrase “Nants’ingonyama bagithi Baba” is “All hail the king, we all bow in the presence of the king.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

His linguistic gifts and poetic sensibility for the English language, then in its infancy, gave his translation a vibrancy, immediacy, charm and clarity that have never been matched.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

According to Ali Ansari, a historian of Iran at the University of St Andrews, the Persian translation of Trump’s 1987 book The Art of the Deal has attracted a following inside the Islamic republic.*

From Slate • Mar. 26, 2026

On Thursday, wearing green khaki prison jumpsuits, Maduro and his wife sat quietly with several lawyers in-between them as they listened to a translation of the arguments through headphones.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

The translation of a few pages of German occupied an hour; then I got my palette and pencils, and fell to the more soothing, because easier occupation, of completing Rosamond Oliver’s miniature.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë