Sentence examples for i was translating from inspiring English sources

And so, the old saw about knowing an author better will result in a better translation was belied, I guess, when I was translating myself, because I couldn't figure out how to do that process.

"I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating Swann's Way," she recalls.

Two recollections from some years ago were at the back of my mind while I was translating it.

When I was translating Our Lady of the Nile there were many unfamiliar terms I needed to find out about, for example, "un wax africain".

When I was translating The Government Inspector, I used to find Nikolai Gogol roaming the house at night, patently half-mad, yet somehow endearingly welcome.

I took part in battles in Baba Amro and Zabadani, and I was translating for a Russian officer, Peter Petrov, and Syrian officers, Essam Zahr al-Deen and Ali Hotham.

However, I was translated into German quite a while ago.

Harold Jackson writes: Frank Platt was appointed production director of the Guardian in 1985, at the same time as I was translated from Washington correspondent to chief systems editor.

It's me, but I'm translating their heritage".

Then I'm translating that and giving them hopefully what they want, etc.

The work addresses broader questions than the numbers I'm translating.