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The reader advances across Mr. McKay’s superb translation as though compelled by a fierce highland wind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
I wanted to understand what got lost in that translation.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
More elaborate designs, including hatched bands, grids, and diamond-shaped motifs, also showed evidence of rotation, translation, repetition, and "embedding," i.e., the ability to build hierarchical levels of signs within the same surface.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
A spokesperson for Meta said people use its AI glasses because they’re “genuinely helpful” for tasks such as listening to music, live translation or hands-free calls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
The translation of a few pages of German occupied an hour; then I got my palette and pencils, and fell to the more soothing, because easier occupation, of completing Rosamond Oliver’s miniature.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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Spotify has reported a surge of interest in audiobook translations of "The Odyssey", with Gen Z and millennials leading the demand.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
It has been widely regarded as one of the greatest works of Western literature, has had various translations and is believed to have been translated into English more than 100 times.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
The story of the “Wooden Horse,” as most translations call it, gets only brief references in Homer’s epic, cited in passing as an example of Odysseus’s cunning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Nolan makes only a handful of changes to the translations of the original text.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
Enormous folio volumes of spurious translations were published.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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