Sentence examples for mediocre translation from inspiring English sources

Though he gives many examples of what is lost, he insists that even a mediocre translation will convey a writer's essence; his style, in other words.

MAUDIE & JANE The legendary Judith Malina is perhaps the only reason one might want to sit through this fairly tedious and slapdash two-hander, a mediocre translation of a clumsy adaptation of the Doris Lessing novel "The Diary of Jane Somers".

Ridicule is the customary fallback position of mediocre opera directors who, unable to cope with the translation of an older period to a present one, simply make fun of what they do not understand.

Utterly mediocre".

Teachers mediocre?

Mediocre left hand.

"Was it something mediocre?

That means mediocre math.

Regulators are mediocre.

A mediocre reading?

(N.B.: mediocre baguettes, though).