Example sentences for: translating

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

  • Eileen Atkins, the English actress who adapted Mrs. Dalloway as a labor (or labour) of love, has done almost too smooth a job of translating its characters' stream-of-consciousness perceptions into speakable dialogue.

  • Translating can be a treacherous means of communication, too.

  • To understand the genetic legacy of an organism we must interpret its genomic sequence, translating the information it contains in molecular form into human-readable annotations.

  • He spent the next two decades translating his stack of holy books from Sanskrit to Chinese.

  • Listeners were diverted to hear him explain, in answer to a question about his personal life, that his pastimes included “middle-aged antics,” and they must have wondered what innocent japes--or perhaps amorous frolics--the old boy got up to, until they worked out that middle-aged was his very reasonable attempt at translating du moyen age (medieval), and that antics was his Gallic stress pattern for `antiques'.


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