Example sentences for: translator

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

  • Since the translator may not “substitute his own modern images for the old ones” how can the shepherd metaphor retain its old-fashioned pastoral simplicity when its sense and the reader's senses are jarred out of the authentic Bible-time setting and are forced into a frame of the “language we use today”?

  • Joachim Neugröschel is a respected and experienced translator, but he tries too hard to turn Kinski's thuggish prose into slinky American slang.

  • Eva can't read English and a translator was not involved.

  • This translator has replaced “He leadeth me beside the still waters” by “To the waters of repose he leads me.”

  • In The Psalms , the translator writes in his preface, “I have tried not to substitute without necessity new English phrases for what was old and well-loved, but unity and modernization of language as well as the true meaning of Hebrew have often made changes inevitable.”


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