Sentence examples for translate commonplace from inspiring English sources
One group of Na'vi learners prefers not to translate commonplace Earth words because they don't think that the sky people would know words for a lot of manufactured and technological items that we are used to on Earth.
Comme les années", the word "fugitives" is translated by the commonplace "fleeting .John Sturrock, in his introduction to "Sodom and Gomorrah", writes of Proust's preoccupation with the time delays in our emotional lives.
Manhattan Through March 1 Translating the commonplace into art has long been the province of Lois Dodd, a conservative but uncommonly accomplished painter who celebrates the richness of everyday life.
What Poe, Melville and Hawthorne all shared was precisely a resistance to the commonplace and the prosaic, and the capacity to translate the apparently ordinary into moral epics and allegories of profound and often tragic consequence.
He dashed down a note in his Commonplace Book: "Linnaeus might certainly be translated into English without losing his sexual terms, or other metaphors, & yet avoiding any indecent idea".
Born male, Saelua is one of Samoa's "fa'afafine" – roughly translated as way of the woman – a third gender that is commonplace in Polynesian culture.
That is also true of Saramago's fable; just because namelessness is a commonplace in modern fiction, however (see Kafka's "In the Penal Colony" for its most terrifying use), does not mean that it translates to the screen.
