Example sentences for: english-

How can you use “english-” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He never wrote or published anything in Yiddish, and he seemed to have used as aids in translating the Guide Alexander Harkavy's Yiddish-English Dictionary and Uriel Weinreich's Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary . Needless to say, translation by dictionary is the crudest and, if one may say, the cruelest form of translation.

  • It is understandable that Michel Vercambre would find it disconcerting to run into blue jaundice in his English-Welsh dictionary [“Instant Welsh,” XVII, 3].

  • John Kahn's article sent me back to my old English-Russian Illustrated Dictionary (A.G. Yelisseyeva, Ed., 2nd ed., Soviet Encyclopedia, 1964), in which each word is illustrated by examples in both languages.

  • However, the 1957 New English-Swahili Phrase Book demonstrates a rather different world.

  • Further to “Do Mistake--Learn Better” [XV,1]: During the Vietnamese conflict, the country was filled with mangled English-Vietnamese-English translations, especially in correspondence between assorted offices of the two nations.


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