Sentence examples for translator's note from inspiring English sources
It's a difficult problem to solve, as Lydia Davis explains, in the translator's note to the Penguin U.K. edition, which she translated as "The Way by Swann's".
In his translator's note, Ken writes: "The act of translation involves breaking down one piece of work in one language and ferrying the pieces across a gulf to reconstitute them into a new work in another language.
Einstein personally translated the paper and submitted it to the Zeitschrift fur Physik, adding a translator's note, "In my opinion, Bose's derivation of the Planck formula constitutes an important advance.
(See the translator's note below about how it came to light).
Translator's note: The first name of Li Danyu means "red cosmos".
A translator's note informs us that the title, "The Retrospective," is designed to avoid the ambiguities of the original Hebrew.
There was a French edition of Stardust some years later that contained translator's notes demonstrating that the whole of the novel was a gloss on Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, which I wish I had read at the time of the interview.
The stick records a common mercantile transaction followed by a verse from a displeased scribe (edits applied per the translator's notes): :'Wise Var of wire [ woman of filigree," meaning "wise bejeweled woman"] makes (me) sit unhappy.
Sashko Kozlovsky is very much liked by his teacher; she often says that he is "Kozlyunka" – it is almost his last name (a flattering diminutive of Kozlovsky, while the word "Kozlovsky" originates from a word "kozel" which means "a goat" – translator's notes).
In Ross's "Translator's Introduction," she notes that Mann's 19th-century version of the text was influenced by Mann's friendship with Sarmiento and by the fact that he was at the time a candidate in the Argentine presidential election: "Mann wished to further her friend's cause abroad by presenting Sarmiento as an admirer and emulator of United States political and cultural institutions".
