Sentence examples for translate means from inspiring English sources

Every text is, to some extent, a bafflement to its translator, because every language, like every writer, has characteristics that can't be "carried across" — which is what "translate" means — into another tongue, another culture.

So far, AMC claims that it earns only 92 cents more for a luxe seat, but its S.E.C. filings (offered in advance of its initial stock offering, which it announced this year) speak of "unrealized revenue potential" as "we rebalance the supply-demand relationship" — which, to translate, means that the company wants to raise prices eventually.

The word "Serengeti" roughly translated means "endless plain".

And listen to this – Palazzo Schifanoia, translated, means : palace of doing away with boredom!

Daria also believes in "elimination communication" which, roughly translated, means not wearing nappies.

We take our dog, Cuzco, whose name, loosely translated, means center of the universe.

One curious point: The genus name for the chipmunk is Tamias, which roughly translated means steward.

This, roughly translated, means that I have never experienced true interest and am therefore probably ugly.

The play was titled "Laiza Porko Sushi," which, literally translated, means "Liza Dirty Pig".

His battlefield name, Hajji Marea, roughly translated, means "the respectable man from Marea".

Pau Comeu, literally translated, means "wood eaters", a Brazilian term used to describe fighting.