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translation
«As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.»
Author: Boris Pasternak
| Keywords:
copying, paintings, rewarding, translate, translation, translations, very much, very much like
«Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.»
Author: Havelock Ellis
| About:
Art,
Dancing,
Life
| Keywords:
abstraction, arts, Beautiful Life, dancing, loftier, loftiest, mere, moving, translation, translations
«Now that he has changed the weather, Lion and lamb can vote together. God bless the Russian delegation, I waive consecutive translation.»
Author: Lord Caradon
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
consecutive, delegation, lamb, Lamb of God, Russian, translation, waive
«Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information -- hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
hallmark, inessential, intends, translation, translations, transmit, transmitting
«Do you, Ambassador Zorin, deny that the USSR has placed and is placing medium - and intermediate - range missiles and sites in Cuba? Yes or no? Don't wait for the translation. Yes or no?»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
| Keywords:
Cuba, intermediate, missile, missiles, placing, range, sites, translation, USSR
«By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.»
«If the work of the city is the remaking or translating of man into a more suitable form than his nomadic ancestors achieved, then might not our current translation of our entire lives into the spiritual form of information seem to make of the entire»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Work
| Keywords:
nomadic, remade, remakes, remaking, suitable, The City, The Spiritual, translating, translation
