Quotes About Translation

How do you say, 'Bring me steak and eggs or I'll slit your throat' in Italian?

How do you say 'bring me sausage and eggs or I'll slit your throat' in Italian?" "Look it up in the phrase book.

If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.

ds mnibus: for this phrase, commonly abbreviated D. M., see "Epitaph of a Young Boy," in Capvt VII.—fcit: sc. id, i.e., the monument.

In one recorded case, the English speaker said "I assume," the French interpreter translated it as "I deduce," and this was rendered by the Russian as "I consider"—by which time the idea of assumption had been lost!

It is particularly hard for people to make good decisions when they have trouble translating the choices they face into the experiences they will have.

In a few short seasons, simply by placing billions of pages of data side by side, the next new species will learn to translate between any human language and the language of green things.

They got their own name in French," she reminded Miss Beryl, stealthily exchanging her soiled cloth napkin for a fresh one at an adjacent table. "Escargot." There's also a word in English, Miss Beryl had pointed out. Snail. Probably horse doo had a name in French also, but that didn't mean God intended for you to eat it.

Braccas meas vescimini ! I wasn't sure where the Latin came from. I think it meant 'Eat my pants!

This is the Valdezinator, of course!' He puffed out his chest. 'It works by, um, translating your feelings into music as you manipulate the gears. It's really meant for me, a child of Hephaestus, to use, though. I don't know if you could –' 'I am the god of music!' Apollo cried. 'I can certainly master the Valdezinator. I must! It is my duty!

Laistry....I can't even say that. What would you call them in English? Canadians.

My manias, at least in their early and mild forms, were absolutely intoxicating states that gave rise to great personal pleasure, an incomparable flow of thoughts, and a ceaseless energy that allowed the translation of new ideas into papers and projects. Medications not only cut into these fast-flowing times, they also brought with them seemingly intolerable side effects.

European scholars had translated into Latin two important Arabic manuscripts, written by the ninth-century Persian mathematician Ab? 'Abdall?h Muammad ibn M?s? al-Khw?rizm? (ca. 780–ca. 850 CE).

Caput tuum in ano est.

Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible.

Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

In 529, as part of an imperial ban against pagan education,17 the Academy was shut down, and while the members of its faculty were offered pensions and resettlement, seven of them—Damascius, the Academy's head; Simplicius; Eulamius; Priscian; Hermeias; Diogenes; and Isidore—were recruited by Khusro to re-create the Academy at the Sassanid capital city of Ctesiphon, there to translate the works of Plato and his successors into Persian.

makes no difference whether the translations in question are from the pens of Jews or non-Jews. In every single instance, where the non-Jew is responsible for the translation, the knowledge shown in the making of the translation was acquired from Jewish savants.

Bless thee, Bottom! bless thee! thou art translated.

For example, a telegram is a "lightning-letter"; a wireless telegram is a "not-have-wire-lightning-communication"; a fountain-pen is a "self-flow-ink-water-brush"; a typewriter is a "strike-letter-machine". Most of these neologisms are similar in the modern languages of China and Japan.

To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.

I thought English is a strange language. Now I think French is even more strange. In France, their fish is poisson, their bread is pain, and their pancake is crepe. Pain and poison and crap. That's what they have every day.

The ribosome did not contain the recipe for the protein; it was a tape reader. It could make any protein so long as it was fed the right tape of "messenger" RNA.