Sentence examples for when I translated from inspiring English sources

This mother of a president and a few United States senators lamented, though, that her own children "make shocking mistakes in English grammar, and I have thought the reason" was that "they had not the least idea of English grammar, which I learned when I translated... Latin classics into English".

I also used the Old English card deck to bring back some of that working vocabulary I once had when I translated Beowulf many years ago (there is also a Beowulf deck, too, of course).

When I translated Ludwig's Harig's German-language novel The Trip to Bordeaux, which is chockablock with unattributed quotes from Montaigne's essays, I made simultaneous use of several brilliant reference books available at the wonderful public library in Berlin, Germany: the Staatsbibliothek preußischer Kulturbesitz.

And so, in fact, when I translate a book written in Spanish, I'm actually writing another book in English.

"Y'know, there's many different stories, and when I translate ideas into film, they pass through my own machine.

"I think of the sentence when I translate, concentrating on the mechanics while letting the poetic manifest itself through the body of words.

"It began to hit me when I translate.

And so, the old saw about knowing an author better will result in a better translation was belied, I guess, when I was translating myself, because I couldn't figure out how to do that process.

"I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating Swann's Way," she recalls.

I prefer to stay close to the text when I'm translating.

When I started translating his work I discovered that his voice was far more engaging and vivid than what came across in previous English versions.