"Do you know what that translates for a person on food stamps?
She translates: "For a long time, I went to bed early," capturing some of the intentional awkwardness of the original.
"Once I translated for an American journalist who kept asking him about the Sergio Leone films.
Most, he said, aren't worth translating for an American audience.
CHRIS LILLEY Australian comedy has proven hard to translate for an American audience.
The languages are different — Urdu, Malayalam, Bengali, though all have been translated for an English-language audience.
So the collaboration makes a certain amount of sense for the British market, but I think the idea wouldn't quite translate for an American audience.
"They're soccer fans," Owen explained, translating for an American at the sports bar Nevada Smiths, on Third Avenue (motto: "Where Football Is Religion").
Rojas says that what Mossberg does "is great, because he is able to translate for an audience that may not care, whereas I write for an audience that already cares".
Translating for an audience who are not part of their own culture, Wong Mou-lam and Cheng Kuan are confronted with a huge social distance in between.
It is being transcribed and translated for an online critical edition during 'The Making and Knowing Project' directed by Pamela H. Smith at Columbia University, New York [16].
