Example sentences for: traditore

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

  • By overloading the proverb with little and old in What little Johnnie hasn't learnt, old John will not learn, the translator (here a traditore, indeed) has killed the clever implication inherent in the play on names, perhaps in a fumbled attempt to bear out his claim that Russian proverbs are relatively brief.

  • The saying Traduttore traditore expresses the idea that no matter how gifted a translator is, he can never truly convey the subtle nuances and meanings behind the original language, the many-layered associations and allusions that the words in the original connote.


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