| 单词 | untranslatable |
| 例句 | Then they associated themselves in fantastic, untranslatable shapes, like Arabic or Chinese. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Their crowns entwined and crisscrossed and whispered with rain, and bowed and shifted as troops of monkeys passed through them like currents of wind, leaping from crown to crown, crying their untranslatable cries. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We often began our work day together saying, “You know, this is an untranslatable play!” They Know Russian. I Know Plays. Would That Translate? 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Writing in English, Spanish and Nahuatl, Vértiz honors and relishes the feeling of being untranslatable. Ten books that explain the complicated nostalgia of being a child of diaspora 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z It is an untranslatable and often imposing term for a very basic idea: that agricultural products are shaped by the soil, climate and culture where they are grown. Can Liquor Have a Local Taste? They’re Banking on It 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z There is also a particular problem with Céline in that he falls very much into the untranslatable bracket; much of his appeal is in the tone and musicality of his language, and its vast register. Céline's journey to the cutting edge of literature 2013-06-15T11:01:00Z Completely absurd and untranslatable, but it sort of makes him. Why I prefer the US version of The Killing to the Danish original 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z He prefers to believe in the untranslatable quality of his materials, as if there are “no ideas but in things,” to borrow a line from the poet William Carlos Williams. Richard Serra Is Carrying the Weight of the World 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z It was a thrilling sensation, untranslatable to the printed page or an iPad screen. Tuning Out Digital Buzz, for an Intimate Communion With Art 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z The French classics, especially Racine and Corneille, were regarded as untranslatable, unplayable and theatrically arid. X is for xenophobia 2012-05-22T12:27:52Z During this time, the young lawyer formed his guiding philosophy — satyagraha, an untranslatable portmanteau that roughly means “truth force” — and fought for the civil rights of Indians. Two Ways of Looking at Philip Glass’s ‘Satyagraha’ 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z The pain that connects Rama and Laurence is like a secret language, an untranslatable grammar of alienation and loss. ‘Saint Omer’ Review: The Trials of Motherhood 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z It depends to a considerable degree on wordplay, untranslatable into dance. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ? review 2011-03-06T00:10:18Z Stamper said the word, a translation of the German ohrwurm, surfaced in English in the late `80s as a way to describe untranslatable words. F-bomb makes it into mainstream dictionary 2012-08-13T21:03:11Z The front half of the novel is littered, somewhat mysteriously, with references to untranslatable or nonsensical sounds. Virginia Reeves’s New Novel Explores What It Feels Like When the Mind Breaks 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z But I found myself wondering whether the play is actually untranslatable. Private Lives; Berenice; The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner – review 2012-10-06T23:05:38Z According to Langlands, “craeft” is nearly untranslatable, “a form of knowledge, not just a knowledge of making but a knowledge of being.” Before Glitter and Glue Sticks, ‘Craeft’ 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z But translate the untranslatable, and we will prepare people in the world to speak and learn from one another. The Sisu Social: Can Finns Teach The World To Hang Tough? 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z But their language, their stark poverty, was untranslatable, and I moved among them behind a crystal wall of privilege. Notes on the Exotic 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z A subtle choice that might point to Castro, much like Doris and her artists’ songs, making a decision to forgo explanatory commas and simply let the ineffable, untranslatable parts of their story breathe. ‘Mija’ Review: Hitting the Notes 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z That marvellously untranslatable noun, connected to a word for flatulence, connotes a crudeness that induces nausea and disgust. Trump Versus Clinton, According to Aristophanes 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z Such juxtapositions are dance logic at its best: at once knowable and untranslatable. Dance Review: New Ideas Between Twists and Turns 2011-03-18T22:04:29Z This solo, according to her website, “dwells in the untranslatable, sensual, absorbent, expansive, nonlinear, protean and mercurial nature of embodied thought.” 9 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z The words truly are untranslatable, so we are left with a slurry of useless definitions and little of the frisson of interlingual delight. Stories of Everyday Strangeness, in the Midwest and Beyond 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z As with much of Bollywood, it was its own untranslatable language, and, sometimes, it miraculously worked. Amit Chaudhuri: 'How I learned to love Bollywood' 2013-07-25T19:00:01Z “And everyone said it was untranslatable,” Mr. Woods said. John Woods, Masterly Translator of Thomas Mann, Dies at 80 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z It’s a poem that’s eloquent in the unsaid, expressing through the means of dance something untranslatable, like the sound of those birds. Paul Taylor’s Canon: Flippant, Savage, Idyllic 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Even more darkly, there’s an unspoken assumption: that trans people are strange, untranslatable. Trans, but not like you think 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I think there’s a kind of quiet beauty in leaving some things untranslatable, and just sitting beside someone with very different value systems and understanding, “This is what gives you joy.” During lockdown, a California novelist's hit debut felt like a curse. It also inspired her 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z “Dharma,” one of the great untranslatable Indic words, can mean “duty,” or “religion” or “vocation,” but it is fundamentally a duty to oneself, to one’s nature. Why the Chimera Is the Monster for Our Uncertain Age 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z This elusive word – apparently untranslatable from the original Portuguese – broadly refers to a sense of sorrow, of yearning, and a resigned desire for what once was. Lisbon's back-alley fado legends – photo essay 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z The bulk of what we say is nonverbal, untranslatable to texts. E-therapy apps see booming business since coronavirus pandemic. I gave one a try. 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z This kind of perfection is very rare; we find it in some of the greatest of Goethe’s poems, and it must exist in most of Pushkin’s works, because their hallmark is that they are untranslatable. Remembering W. H. Auden, by Hannah Arendt 1975-01-13T05:00:00Z In other words, Crews-Chubb’s rough and tumble compositions are not about Assyrian kings, monkey deities, African freedom fighters, untranslatable codices or belfies. An ugly kind of pretty: The unruly painting of Daniel Crews-Chubb 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z “It’s music, with all the attendant glory and defiance and untranslatable emotion music ought to have, and that’s magic of the highest sort.” Cecil Taylor, pianist who was ‘the eternal outer curve of the avant-garde,’ dies at 89 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z It was long branded untranslatable, a view reinforced by a turgid rendering published in 1931. The real resonances, and warnings, of Weimar Germany 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z For a sense of her untranslatable poise, watch the video, below, that she made for Sanders ahead of the Hawaii primary, which he won. Thirteen Women Who Should Think About Running for President in 2020 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z The cells could be immune to viruses that impair bioreactors, for example, if crucial viral genes include now untranslatable codons. Biologists are close to reinventing the genetic code of life 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z However, perhaps even more intriguing is the related phenomenon of so-called untranslatable words — essentially, words which also lack an equivalent in English, but haven’t yet been borrowed. Defining “Treppenwitz” in English: The magic of untranslatable words 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z Soon after Lomas returned to the University of East London, where he is a lecturer in applied positive psychology, he launched the Positive Lexicography Project, an online glossary of untranslatable words. The Glossary of Happiness 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z They’ve grappled with the inexpressible, the untranslatable, the arbitrariness of word shapes as they are deployed across blankness. The Sexual Politics of Syntax 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z All great poets are untranslatable, their music audible only in their native tongue. The Terrifying Beauty of Mallarmé 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z The very simplicity of Goethe’s language makes his poetry practically untranslatable. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Conversely though, some people submit that nothing is ever genuinely untranslatable. Defining “Treppenwitz” in English: The magic of untranslatable words 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z For consumers trying to understand the difference between one phone plan and another, from one carrier or another, those plans might as well be written in some untranslatable language. Daily Report: In Search of the Right Phone Plan 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z This Portuguese word crops up on lots of untranslatable lists. 12 untranslatable words (and their translations) 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Could it be that cheekiness as a concept is untranslatable, unique to the UK? Is cheekiness a truly British concept? 2013-10-16T00:10:43Z Away from these shores his strengths are often untranslatable. Premier League: 10 talking points from this weekend's action 2013-05-06T08:00:05Z I'll tell you why; that is, there is a charming French word for what I mean, the verb 'agacer,' all untranslatable as it is. Barrington Volume II (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:32.490Z He has an unmatched command of the lesser and lower varieties of the humorous contrast—over the odd, the petty, the queer, above all, over what the French untranslatably call the saugrenu. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2012-03-28T02:00:26.907Z In short: no word is completely untranslatable, but then no word is precisely translatable either. 12 untranslatable words (and their translations) 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Promising us fresh fish, and something with an untranslatable name, she disappeared into the shed. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z The peculiar poetic charm and power of the original Greek are probably untranslatable, although several eminent poets have attempted it. Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School 2012-03-17T02:01:04.053Z In Aristotle ψυχή is untranslatable = anima and animus—soul and vital principle. Science and Medieval Thought The Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18, 1900 2012-02-22T03:00:23.620Z Then it is a study to watch that bronzed and swarthy face, after a long and clean right-and-left, and deep is the concentrated expressiveness of the single untranslatable word he utters. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z In France or Italy they understood you whether you spoke their language or not; but a Teuton has to have everything translated into his own untranslatable tongue. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z Chinese and Indians, writes Indian journalist Pallavi Aiyar in her perceptive book, Smoke and Mirrors: An Experience of China, are "largely culturally untranslatable to each other." China's Century -- or India's? 2011-11-11T01:40:00Z They are untranslatable; to omit them takes away from the Sicilian flavor, which is their great charm. Under the Shadow of Etna Sicilian Stories from the Italian of Giovanni Verga 2011-11-12T03:00:38.073Z These floating impressions, the untranslatable instincts of early childhood, began to thicken, when Archie was getting on for six years old, into thoughts capable of being solidified into language. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z Both always worked and played together, and whichever discovered something new, would communicate it in an untranslatable language to his companion. Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown 2011-10-25T02:00:25.713Z He is untranslatable; but Martin's version and commentary will give some idea of this most interesting man, "the most modern and most familiar of the ancients." The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature 2011-10-20T02:00:20.857Z There was something of exultation over the earth that evening and of untranslatable beauty, and the evening song of the birds was like that of choristers in a great cathedral. The Sins of the Children A Novel 2011-10-09T02:00:27.520Z It was therefore with mingled and untranslatable emotions that she studied this picture. The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado 2011-09-22T02:00:25.630Z His language is suggestive of that untranslatable amusement now known as ‘ragging,’ which has no doubt formed a large part of the relaxation of students—at least of English students—in all ages. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z His the eye that reads at a glance the signs that to the ordinary sight are a blank or at most are an untranslatable enigma. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z It was her sure and unconquered resort, for no one could answer unpronounceable and untranslatable words. A Reconstructed Marriage 2011-06-23T02:00:23.143Z Indeed, that significant, almost untranslatable, French word might have been coined to fit La Fontaine’s case. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z He said several untranslatable things in the German tongue. For the School Colours 2011-04-28T02:00:12.693Z "Will I go" is bad English, and untranslatable! The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary 2011-04-12T02:00:28.753Z The perceived, but untranslatable expression of the Doctor's eyes and voice was the real foundation of her hope, and that she had not definitely and consciously noted—to explain it was impossible. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z The third poem I admit to be really untranslatable. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Descriptions of Edouard Manet often resort to the untranslatable French term 'flaneur'. Manet-about-town 2011-04-07T07:59:51Z He wrote the epitaph in the old severe untranslatable style of Simonides: "These men won eight victories over the Syracusans when the hand of God lay even between both." Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z It is only part of your wilful, uncomprehendable, untranslatable charm that makes you pretend sometimes that you have no memory. A Lame Dog's Diary 2011-02-04T03:00:23.707Z George E., his opinion that Dante is untranslatable, 85. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z Being a privileged person, the old fellow expressed himself in absolutely untranslatable language. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z Some of the world's most untranslatable words are Japanese. The dawn of universal translation 2010-10-29T15:47:49Z The expression is untranslatable in a family newspaper. A Colleague Killed, a Conversation Cut Short 2010-09-01T01:06:00Z Poles call this idea the “Układ”, an all but untranslatable word meaning something like “deal” or “arrangement”. Poland tragedy: In Memoriam: Lech Kaczy?ski 2010-04-11T13:59:00Z Many suffer much in translation—the beauty of their outward presentment, as apart from their inner meaning, their manner as apart from their matter, consists often in an untranslatable play of words. Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources With what stupendous and untranslatable coolness he says this, and how loungingly he leads on to the woman’s side, making, as he goes, a kind of castanet of the key on the stair rail. In Jail with Charles Dickens To them also he gives a piece of excellent advice: "The translator must proceed until he reaches the untranslatable." Maxims and Reflections Die Hausmamsell is so untranslatable a title in its exact meaning, that I have left it. L'Arrabiata and Other Tales “Tinged with rose” is undoubtedly a briefer expression for the untranslatable “rosata” than “stained with roseate hues” would be. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The trouble is that Krylov has written six lines which are as untranslatable as La Fontaine’s four; and he has made them as profoundly Russian as La Fontaine’s are French. An Outline of Russian Literature Faces dependent for beauty on their mobility and expression suffer most, and are indeed, in their finer moods, almost untranslatable by this process. Maids Wives and Bachelors The translator must proceed until he reaches the untranslatable; and then only will he have an idea of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue. Maxims and Reflections Watchwords by themselves, if they remain vague generalities untranslatable into new directions of effort, will fail. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance It is a conception belonging to the Germans, and not to culture in general; the expression is incorrect and untranslatable. Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music "Don't forget," said Ottmar, "that the point of a story is very often completely untranslatable." The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II But this very perfection of form makes his lyrics well-nigh untranslatable, and their highest beauty can only be felt by those who can read them in the original. Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy Some of tribes always set a cedar pole for the centre of their ghost dance, and they gave the tree an untranslatable name which referred to power, mystery and immortality. Old Plymouth Trails They are untranslatable from the time and place. The So-called Human Race As to the verse, I know of few attempts to translate the untranslatable. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Among the passages which had specially provoked this enterprise was one the Latin of which is so terse and pungent that it has often been pronounced untranslatable. Memoirs of Life and Literature The language was there, visible, but untranslatable—a poem, a fervid lyric, in an unknown tongue. Shirley It seems to be untranslatable into German––just as we can’t seem to understand Germanity except that it is the antonym of humanity. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards How many times has he been exploded by British and American critics; how many times has he been labeled and put upon the shelf, only to reappear again as vigorous and untranslatable as ever! Whitman A Study They flutter in unbelievable clusters, wheel in untranslatable formations through the cerebric wasteland that is the aged mind of Oliver Symmes. Life Sentence “Ma belle, Marquise,” murmured the girl, in the untranslatable caress of voice and eyes. The Bondwoman The racial disappointment is expressed in what used to be called, somewhat untranslatably, Weltschmerz. Imaginary Interviews "How long since you was made a trustee?" said the Squire, beginning his sentence with an untranslatable sort of grunt, and ending it in his teacup. Say and Seal, Volume I The word is untranslatable, though my dictionary translates it. Home Life in Germany The word is untranslatable when used in this way. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity Mr Morgan looked very blank at her as she sat there crying, sobbing with the force of a sentiment which was probably untranslatable to the surprised, middle-aged man. The Perpetual Curate Conceits, acrostics, and untranslatable word-plays hold much too prominent a place, but for perfection of form the poems of this time are unrivalled. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era The young woman let her arm fall at her side, and stood still an instant, looking at him with untranslatable eyes. The Wizard's Daughter and Other Stories There is an untranslatable pun here, capitalis bearing the double meaning 'capital' and 'pertaining to the head'. The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura The English title is given and the word “sentimental” is declared a new one in England and untranslatable in German. Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century Again his cousin looked at him with that untranslatable expression in her eyes, a little, half‑bitter smile on her lips. The Silver Butterfly The almost untranslatable airs of India assume in China something like an artless 182melody. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science They are untranslatable," said the father, who went on, "Saint Hildegarde is, with Saint Bernard, one of the purest glories of the family of Saint Benedict. En Route Music is called the universal language, but it has strongly marked dialects, and sometimes a national flavor untranslatable to foreign peoples. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions British “Laune” is cited as such an untranslatable “Idiotism” and the lack of German humorists is noted, and Swift is noted particularly as an English example. Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century Horace is utterly untranslatable, and prose translations afford little clue to the music of his songs. The Book-Hunter at Home His consciousness is environed and conditioned by the surrounding world, but is utterly unexplained by it, wholly untranslatable in its terms. The Chief End of Man Economy is the reflection in literature of that σωφροσυνη, which is the most deeply-rooted of Greek ideals, the most untranslatable of Greek words. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield For a month or two the talented contributors go smoothly on in their career of untranslatable pleasantry, till some special atrocity calls forth the fatherly admonition of the police. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 De ira!" was the untranslatable reply; "aye, plucked from God's ire, and called to Christ's mercy! Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries "The future is so untranslatable," says she, with a little evasion. April's Lady A Novel Under the thinnest disguise of fiction, he gives in his romance of La Bas, an incredible and untranslatable picture of sorcery, sacrilege, black magic, and nameless abominations, secretly practised in Paris. Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer What folly is this," he mused, "that I, who have always scoffed at translations, sit here trying to translate this most untranslatable thing? Brother Copas La Marchande de Journaux and the other little masterpieces of story-telling in verse are unfortunately untranslatable, as are all poems but a lyric or two, now and then, by a happy accident. Ten Tales The new quality in it is as unexplainable as the poem itself is untranslatable. Essays on Scandinavian Literature No nation that gives birth to an untranslatable word like Gemüthlichkeit can be without that characteristic. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View And again in the throng the ill-conditioned talk, the untranslatable jests of the Arabs and the negroes went their round. The Four Feathers It is the burning and untranslatable commentary of the Psalmist's cry: "Behold how sweet and pleasant it is to be brethren and to dwell together." Life of St. Francis of Assisi It might be some fun, after all, to have somebody round all the time to—in that untranslatable girls' phrase—"carry on with." Gypsy's Cousin Joy But it was as freakish and unphilosophic, as arbitrary and untranslatable, as a beggar's patched coat or a child's secret language. The Victorian Age in Literature This is the "Faust" of Gaelic poetry, incommunicable except to the native reader, and, like that celebrated composition, an untranslatable tissue of tenderness, sublimity, and mocking ribaldry. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century It was untranslatable and unpronounceable to Earthmen, who could not reproduce the sequence of pops and whistles that made up the Garvian tongue. Star Surgeon "How do you know that the aniehna"—he emphasized the untranslatable word of insult, and his voice trembled with passion—"has worked such evil to the people?" The Delight Makers No," he said with an indescribable gesture and untranslatable inflection, "he is not dead. The Crucifixion of Philip Strong Struck by the death of a neighbour, this sentiment seems even on the point of being expressed; but, adds Madame de Sévigné, and her phrase is untranslatable, 'il n'est pas effleuré.' The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 Any new or untranslatable symbol caused a red light to flash on the machine. Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X So, it is said that Law is not thoroughly understood without Latin, because the great source of law, the Roman code, is written in Latin, and is in many points untranslatable. Practical Essays The troglodyte, with a strange reasoning yet untranslatable, loved the colonel devotedly and followed him about like a dog and with a scent far keener. The Adventures of Kathlyn The Spanish sentence is untranslatable, several of the words being beyond the ken of any one who understands that language. Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XII, Jan. 3, 1891 De ir�!" was the untranslatable wordplay of the vivacious Roman--"aye, plucked from God's ire and called to Christ's mercy! History of the English People, Volume I Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216 "Horace remains forever the type of the untranslatable," says Frederic Harrison. Horace and His Influence His sensations remain his own—untranslatable; and even that instinctive description the mind gropes for automatically, floundered, halted, and stopped dead. Four Weird Tales It is as untranslatable as the sigh of the wind in a pine forest. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Shortly after the door had closed upon the company of merry-makers and their loud voices had resolved into untranslatable murmurs, three men came into the public room and ranged themselves in front of the fire. The Grey Cloak He answered me with an epigram which I will not repeat, besides which it is untranslatable. The Lighted Way Yes, they were there, the hands—Barlow's next remark was long, but untranslatable. Joy in the Morning All his attempts at a lodgment were aided by the invitations of Sibylla, whether conveyed in words or in untranslatable smiles and glances. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 The mere artificiality of music's vehicle separates it from life and makes its message untranslatable. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series The mere ideas seemed to be untranslatable, to savour of madness. The Inheritors The untranslatable beauty of the German is in the diminutive with which the sentence closes. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 "You are salop," said the upper berth lady,—which is untranslatable, not on grounds of propriety but of idiom. Christopher and Columbus But may they not perhaps possess a content, an individual matter, incommunicable and untranslatable? Tragic Sense Of Life It is rare to find in literature so crude and intense an expression of fiery hatred as these untranslatable v�ceri present. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series It is plain that the Greek is untranslatable into English because of the homophone. Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones A modern poet of equal genius would treat the topic with equal force and grace, but the charm, the untranslatable charm of antique simplicity, would be absent. Cambridge Essays on Education A work of this kind is hard to translate because verbal felicities, to use a mild term, are untranslatable. Emerson and Other Essays That is why Horace out of the whole golden Latin tongue chose the one word "tendens"--which is utterly untranslatable.' A Diversity of Creatures If it moves in the upper rather than in the lower level—a fair example is a lyric of Swinburne’s—it is as good as untranslatable. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech Fun is like cant, like humour, a word which is untranslatable. The Man Who Laughs It has become indeed practically a Japanese equivalent for that untranslatable expression "chic." Kimono This is an untranslatable form of saying how glad he should be to hear his minister's voice again speaking to him the words of salvation and of peace from the pulpit. Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character This so exasperated our driver that he would give every horse and every sleeping teamster in the whole caravan a slashing cut with his long rawhide whip, shouting, in almost untranslatable Russian, "Wake up!" Tent Life in Siberia It was her favourite and wholly untranslatable term of opprobrium. North, South and over the Sea One could still read, twenty-three years ago, on a stone of the gate of Otero, an untranslatable inscription—the words of the code outraging propriety. The Man Who Laughs And the FORM, meanwhile, limned in the wonder of an undecipherable or at least untranslatable geometry, silently roaring, enthroned in the undiscoverable colors beyond the spectrum, swept towards them as he spoke. The Human Chord The most, indeed, of what he feels and perceives he will recognise to be frankly untranslatable in speech or pigment or musical notes, too high, too sacred, too sublime. The Silent Isle In many cases the puns proved quite untranslatable; while the poems, being parodies on well-known English pieces, would have been pointless on the other side of the Channel. The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) With what stupendous and untranslatable coolness he says this, and how loungingly he leads on to the women's side: making, as he goes, a kind of iron castanet of the key and the stair-rail! American Notes He is fond of reciting passages from the works, and has even made attempts at translation: though he understands them too well not to pronounce them, what they are for every Latin language, untranslatable. Life and Letters of Robert Browning On the sculptured stones in the Copan valley there are characters which seem to resemble very ancient writing, but this pictographic writing is largely untranslatable. Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders, or, the Underground Search for the Idol of Gold And sometimes—once or twice—the thought had in some unspeakable, untranslatable way brought him a moment's calm. The Dawn of a To-morrow The novelist lifted his dull eyes to his interlocutress with an untranslatable smile and a slight inclination of his shoulders. The Troll Garden and Selected Stories However, Indian humor consists as much in the gestures and inflections of the voice as in words, and is really untranslatable. Indian Boyhood The idea plunged back out of sight—untranslatable in language. The Centaur A torrent of untranslatable German blasphemy answered him. The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf Some apology must be made for an attempt "to translate the untranslatable." Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims He is untranslated and untranslatable, and it requires the greatest familiarity with French literature to relish him thoroughly…. A Study of Hawthorne This constitutes the most striking peculiarity of the Shakspearean language, and while it justifies the almost idolatrous veneration of his countrymen, renders him, of all writers, the most untranslatable. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities The thing is as untransferable as the word is untranslatable. Personal Recollections Abridged, Chiefly in Parts Pertaining to Political and Other Controversies Prevalent at the Time in Great Britain In the beginning employing nothing but terms and phrases of insolence and objurgation untranslatable, when he had secured a measure of attention he delivered a short address in tones of unqualified contempt. The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf Seeing on the shelves an edition of Holberg, I asked him if he had ever considered the question why Holberg's comedies, so delightful in the original, appeared to be totally untranslatable into English. America To-day, Observations and Reflections The best word to denote what music can express is that used by Helmholtz—Gemüthstimmung—untranslatable into English, but for which we may use the term "emotional mood" as denoting something similar. Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama The exaggerated elaborateness and research of their works makes all these writers practically untranslatable; not that many of them are really worth translating. Tales of the Wilderness Unfortunately, the Scotticisms are so frequent as to render the droll practically untranslatable. English Fairy Tales When shall we have a reasonable version of Hebrew Holy Writ, which will retain the original names of words either untranslatable or to be translated only by guess-work? The Land of Midian — Volume 2 The quaint old idiom is almost untranslatable, but one sees what he means. The Clicking of Cuthbert But there is more than this that is untranslatable in the title. Growth of the Soil But no attempt was made by George to translate the look into words, and indeed Philip felt that it was untranslatable. Dawn It speaks in a language of its own, like music, and is equally untranslatable. The Hawaiian Archipelago His true name was the same as that of his father, but he is usually mentioned in history as Augustus, an untranslatable title that he assumed when he became emperor. The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic It bears the untranslatable title "De l'Esprit," a word which in this simple and unmodified form means exactly neither wit nor spirit, but something between the two and different from either. The Eve of the French Revolution In the highly cultured languages of England, France, and Germany, are words, by thousands, which are strictly untranslatable. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 The translation was slightly marred by one or two untranslatable words, but these did not impair the general clearness of the meaning. Sketches New and Old, Part 3. "Yes, ma'am," answered Sarah, with an untranslatable look at me as she set down the candles. Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood Cornelia trembled; she blushed, she smiled, she suffered herself to be drawn close to his side; and, at last, in some sweet, untranslatable way, she gave him the assurance of her love. The Maid of Maiden Lane Washington Flagg straightened himself for an instant, and then smiled upon me in an amused, patronizing way quite untranslatable. The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel I scarcely know what excuse I can offer for making public this attempt to "translate the untranslatable." The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace It was nothing less than a double Man-Bird lashed together breast to breast by a natural ligament, and labeled with the untranslatable words, "Siamese Twins." Sketches New and Old, Part 3. Above it and through it hovered a spirit of longing, infinite and untranslatable, yet clear as some high call. Old Rose and Silver He did not offer again, but sat and watched her pack up the things with an untranslatable look on his face. Seven Little Australians Perhaps it meant "old pal" or "mate," or, judging from the tone of voice that accompanied it, "old girl," but more probably, like "Maluka," untranslatable. We of the Never-Never At intervals, he pulled himself up and peered into the sky or dropped and tried to pierce the untranslatable distance; all this with the quiet, furtive, prowling movements of some predatory beast. Angel Island And just as the buffoon and satyr are foreign to him in body and conscience, so Aristophanes and Petronius are untranslatable for him. Beyond Good and Evil With perfect fine finger-tips of reality she would touch the reality in him, the suave, pure, untranslatable reality of his loins of darkness. Women in Love All the chivalry in Martin came up and choked his anger and bitterness and untranslatable disappointment. Who Cares? a story of adolescence "A voice charmed him; untranslatable; sweeter than language and vague as a dream." Fabre, Poet of Science As though it were a page on which was spelled some untranslatable other world message. The Metal Monster Ah!" cried Cigarette, with a volley of slang utterly untranslatable, "that is how you treat your betters, is it? Under Two Flags A voice sings in my ear, an untranslatable voice, softer than any language and bewildering as a dream. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Alice and Gilbert Palgrave,—curious that it should have been those two,—had shaken her individualism, as well as something else, vague and untranslatable, that she couldn't quite grasp, that eluded her hand. Who Cares? a story of adolescence Some phrases are untranslatable, and it only spoils them to try. Rose in Bloom Bad English replete with literal translations from untranslatable Yiddish idioms had become their natural speech. The Rise of David Levinsky "Holy Madonna!" and he poured out a string of imprecations, numberless, endless, and most of them quite untranslatable. Colomba "No—but—" She stopped, and, lifting one shoulder, threw her spirited head sideways, in a pretty deprecatory way, with elevated eyebrows and an expression intended to show the otherwise untranslatable character of her impression. Sally Dows Due to the suggestive character of Chinese philosophical writings, this barrier gets more daunting, these writings being almost untranslatable. The Civilization of Illiteracy They do not attempt to translate beauty into language; they merely tell you that it is untranslatable—that is, unutterable, indefinable, indescribable, impalpable, ineffable, and all the rest of it. A Miscellany of Men Posh is an almost untranslatable idiom, implying, as the reader will see later, contempt. The Coming Race Here followed a very long and untranslatable digression about the different races and families of the then existing machines. Erewhon I was for such untranslatable phrases as the "Genteel Whig," or the "Donnish Liberal." War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war Here is an attempt to translate the untranslatable, the sonnet called— “El Desdichado.” Letters on Literature In fact Faraday had notions regarding the magnetization of light which were peculiar to himself, and untranslatable into the scientific language of the time. Faraday as a Discoverer Poosh or Posh I have already confessed to be untranslatable literally. The Coming Race The Italian s'accommodi is untranslatable; it means at once, "Come, enter, you are welcome; make yourself at home; you are the master." The Count of Monte Cristo |
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