Sentence examples for respectable translation from inspiring English sources
Eventually he realized that, between his son's late-night feedings, he had produced a respectable translation.
(Note to the decent, respectable translator: I teach a college class on translation but I accept your critique that I am long on theory and short on practice).
So Poe, like much writing in the Gothic mode, sounds infinitely more respectable in a French translation.
Parker reportedly receives healthy payments when Sex and the City reruns are broadcast around the world, while the most recent film in the series' big-screen translation pulled in a respectable $290m.
Mr. Vogel, whose Chinese publisher, Sanlian, is one of China's most respectable publishing houses, said it took a year to settle on a final translation, which was adapted from the unexpurgated version published in Hong Kong.
He has produced useful translations (most popularly of "Beowulf," a best seller), idiosyncratic anthologies, a respectable body of criticism and, every few years, a new book of poems.
Basic translation problems account for some of it: under Enver Hoxha's Maoist regime, Albania never signed a copyright convention, meaning no respectable publishing house would buy translation rights, and the lack of English-Albanian translators has continued the problem: most of Kadare's work available in English comes through David Bellos's translations from the French.
Failures are entirely respectable.
