Sentence examples for translating him from inspiring English sources

"I'm really good at translating him," he said.

You will never be closer to a writer than when you are translating him".

I'm not doing this to nitpick; rather to prepare you for Baudelaire by illustrating the difficulties of translating him.

During his idle war years, Svevo became interested in the sage of Vienna; he even made a stab at translating him.

This meant that instead of boarding a fast boat he would be taking a plane owned by SakOil into the desert, translating him ever closer to heaven.

The idea of rewriting Homer for the New World, translating him from the Aegean to the Caribbean, suits Walcott's preoccupations perfectly, but the momentum of the long poem is not sustained, and eventually it lapses from narrative back into lyric.

What made you want to translate him?

I've been wanting to translate him for many years".

If Ackroyd thought that Chaucer was this dull, why did he bother to translate him?

They are not going to use Shakespeare, they are going to try to translate him.

He also loved Chekhov and, like Michael Frayn, translated him directly from the Russian.