"direct translation" is a grammatically correct and widely used phrase in written English.
For example, "This article provides a direct translation of the original text into English."
Says Maiden Lane direct translation from Dutch "T" Maagde Paatje".
This appears to be a direct translation from the Chinese.
"And it's one of those for which there's no direct translation.
The English poem is not a direct translation of the Greek poem.
"'Grey tickles' is a direct translation in Icelandic for midlife crisis," he says.
In a word, politeness – one of those Japanese concepts with no direct translation into English.
(She is probably making a direct translation of "uno stupido" – a stupid man in Italian).
Why not simply commission a direct translation from the actual Russian?
But a direct translation of events in my own life into fiction doesn't interest me.
The Welsh word hiraeth has no direct translation into English, but it suggests a sense of yearning tinged with sadness.
It's a direct translation, he says, of a Cantonese phrase that means, more or less, "to die for".
