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The phrase "act of translation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the process or activity of translating text or speech from one language to another.
Example: "The act of translation requires not only linguistic skills but also cultural understanding."
Alternatives: "process of translation" or "translation activity".
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In his translator's note, Ken writes: "The act of translation involves breaking down one piece of work in one language and ferrying the pieces across a gulf to reconstitute them into a new work in another language.
Telepathy was an act of translation.
I think of simile as a healing art". Was Memorial an act of translation or creation?
Gaining and losing is also inherent in the act of translation.
Learning to read difficult poems is an act of translation, effected by more reading.
His entire oeuvre, in other words, is the act of translation dramatized.
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The aesthetic, ethical, and political questions raised by the act and art of translation and how these pertain to the translator's tasks.
An introduction to a wide range of issues arising in the many acts of translation that constitute the modern world.
Mitchell, ever sanguine, wrote a defence of the movie in the Wall Street Journal: "Adaptation is a form of translation, and all acts of translation have to deal with untranslatable spots".
"Jews died as a people of the body, of the land, of the Temple service of fire and blood, and, in one of the greatest acts of translation in human history, they were reborn as the people of the book".
In one way or another, these Russians engage in heroic acts of translation — not from one language to another but from the absurd gibber of everyday life to the salvation of meaning.
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act of conversion
act of interpretation
regulation of translation
act of transfer
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determination of translation
act of expression
act of interpreting
act of rereading
act of desperation
act of love
act of self-deputization
act of leadership
act of endurance
act of nostalgia
act of rebellion
act of nature
act of betrayal
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