Sentence examples for secondhand translations from inspiring English sources

The citizenry is largely cut off from the primary activity of science and at best gets secondhand translations from an interposed media.

Some earlier translations were secondhand, having begun in German and passed through English and Japanese before landing in Chinese.

Because of the secondhand nature of Lin Shu's translations indeed, many are translations of translations they are not completely accurate.

Her oral history of post-Soviet Russia, Secondhand Time: the Last of the Soviets, was first published in Russia in 2013, and is now available in English translation.

* All smoke is secondhand.

"But secondhand," I say.

Secondhand smoke kills.

"SECONDHAND LIONS," starring Michael Caine, Robert Duvall and Haley Joel Osment.

(Everything's secondhand).

We had secondhand furniture.

Now: secondhand car salesman, Stockport.