“A translator is always on high demand in intelligence agencies to decipher confidential communications.”

“From Spain he brought a translator who created a Latin summary of Aristotle's biological and zoological works.”

“Although he is far better known for his novels, Norman continues to work as a translator from Algonquin and Cree.”

“The literal English translation is simply ungrammatical, and most readers would find it incoherent.”

“The translation of the article clarified the author's intent by rewording certain phrases and adding context.”

“French Egyptologist Jean Champollion did much of the work in the translation of Hieroglyphics.”

“The illusion of easy communication disintegrates, the curse of Babel reasserts itself, English collapses into translationese.”

“He is the only Italian poet from the era to have achieved a considerable translatability and literary reputation abroad.”

“Either way, such failures of easy translatability are far too localized to encourage talk of different conceptual schemes.”

“These severe restrictions on the translatability of the expressible, on the presentable and the representable, are suggestive of the rigours of Beckett's work.”

“The circumstantial evidence all attests to these being excellent translations.”

“The official language to be used at the courts will be Khmer, with English, French and Russian translations, the draft bill said.”

“The most common are translations from Luganda to English and translations from English to Luganda.”

“You have Americans, working in an alien culture, travelling with armed men and using translators.”

“So, translators have been working on books translated into English, and then retranslating them into Swedish.”

“Homer haunts the imaginations of countless poets, translators and adapters in English.”