Sentence examples for translated myself from inspiring English sources

I've always translated myself.

Translating myself no longer feels like a step backward, like undoing the great labor of the original or erasing it away.

And the process was less traumatic than when I first tried to translate myself almost five years ago, when the experiment of writing in Italian had barely gotten under way.

(Yes, I translated that myself. Thanks, college!).

R: "I translated it myself – it carries more feeling, the Antillean feeling.

Saying that, I wouldn't like to have to translate Márai myself.

Helen Simpson The nearest I have to a rule is a Post-it on the wall in front of my desk saying "Faire et se taire" (Flaubert), which I translate for myself as "Shut up and get on with it".

My friend Sean convinced me to try translating it myself - the poem and the commentary -- and I did (not without the usual resistance: Who me?).

(Mason here substitutes a cognate for Rimbaud's coinage "je m'encrapule," which actually makes the poet sound overly scatological; others have translated it as "making myself scummy" or "lousing myself up").

"Je me mets minable pour l'équipe," he said, which can roughly be translated as : "I sacrifice myself for the team" or even "I'm willing to grind myself into the dust for the team".

At the same time, as a translator myself, I was aware of how little gets translated into English from other languages, especially poetry, and also of how difficult it is for works by women writers to be translated.