Substances readily translatable to the American home table. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Saddam -- a name translatable as "he who confronts" -- staged a vicious purge. From Wordnik.com. [More Than A Madman] Reference
Influence -- a word translatable in the Orient by a shorter one, cash -- must be brought to bear. From Wordnik.com. [Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond] Reference
Translation theory gets screwy on the subject of "translatable" and. From Wordnik.com. [The St. Petersburg Times] Reference
Translation theory gets screwy on the subject of "translatable" and "untranslatable" words. From Wordnik.com. [The St. Petersburg Times] Reference
A phrase imperfectly translatable, meaning, as near as may be, having flitter-mice in his campanile. From Wordnik.com. [The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1] Reference
Is your personality translatable to a wider audience?. From Wordnik.com. [Lunch Room Chatter: The bias against female chefs] Reference
It is a useful greeting phrase, though not readily translatable. From Wordnik.com. [Cyber Way]
The German's impulse is translatable in the words "Be organized.". From Wordnik.com. [The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History] Reference
That passion, given good reason, is easily translatable into votes. From Wordnik.com. [The Unseen Avalanche: Young voters in 2008] Reference
Learning how to write easily translatable strings is quite difficult. From Wordnik.com. [Planning For 10.10: Growing Our Translations Community | jonobacon@home] Reference
The terms of the new and old taxonomies will not be inter-translatable. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Kuhn] Reference
"Wasps I can manage, but Steelers is not directly translatable into Navaho.". From Wordnik.com. [Cyber Way]
The depth of the animals emotions is as plain as day and easily translatable. From Wordnik.com. [Manga Review: Gon, Volume One | The Anime Blog] Reference
At least one of the truckers 'tactics may be translatable to the foreclosure crisis. From Wordnik.com. [Barbara Ehrenreich: Truckers Protest, the Resistance Begins] Reference
S.nate are not translatable to the people who vote for the members of the U.S. S.nate. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 6, 2004] Reference
Intuition's a fine starting point for ideas, but it needs craft to make it translatable. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference
The words were an easily translatable, common enough formula until I got to the last word. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
Now, some of that, Wolf, you know, as I say, these things aren't always easily translatable. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 21, 2009] Reference
Everybody assumes Nyueng Bao are involved because Thi Kim is translatable only from Nyueng Bao. From Wordnik.com. [Soldiers Live]
If Boethius 'logic is a sentential logic his syllogism would be translatable into the following. From Wordnik.com. [The Statue of a Writer] Reference
Because of the translatable nature of his instinctual knowledge it seems like the sky's the limit. From Wordnik.com. [Cesar Millan: Changing The World One Dog Owner At A Time] Reference
Whether it's translatable to Viacom is less clear-she won the gene pool, but she was inexperienced. From Wordnik.com. [Redstone's Rap on Mel: He Never Came to Dinner!] Reference
What is it that drives people to translate Horace, the most translated and least translatable of poets?. From Wordnik.com. [Horacescope] Reference
But this is not a serious defect, and the trifling errors do not prevent the word from being translatable. From Wordnik.com. [Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves] Reference
It wasn't quite translatable into any Earthly tongue: the polite equivalent of making no response whatsoever. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
While not literally translatable, the sentiment would have been recognized by the soldiers of any combative species. From Wordnik.com. [Mid Flinx]
I promise I'll try to add subtitles but it is nearly "non" translatable, meaning has no sense ... just a crazy song: -). From Wordnik.com. [Vimeo / Recent Public Videos] Reference
V. KERRY: I am very interested in global health, so whatever I desire to be clinically, I want it to be translatable to. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 25, 2004] Reference
Or it could be coherent and even true, provided that it's translatable without change of meaning into some other claim, e.g. From Wordnik.com. [Desert] Reference
Not directly translatable, it essentially means, “Just let them try to take away from me that which I have already danced.”. From Wordnik.com. [Midterm Roundup] Reference
Carlitos was sunk in sullen mood and his comments -- usually addressed to the car -- were in Spanish, and scarcely translatable. From Wordnik.com. [The Mission of Janice Day] Reference
They are not to be held by letters printed on a page, but are living characters translatable into every tongue and form of life. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858] Reference
Much has been made of what may be the least translatable word in the Hebrew language, Hasbara, literally, the act of explaining. From Wordnik.com. [Bradley Burston: Why Does the World Media Love to Hate Israel?] Reference
The Field Manual, a public document written for military use, is not always directly translatable to use by intelligence officers. From Wordnik.com. [Charles J. Brown: The Torture Memos: McCain's Tortured Contradictions] Reference
I used to stop on my way home from work, but I couldn't take the stares, which are easily translatable into: What are you doing here?. From Wordnik.com. [Nickel and Dimed]
The same seekers would track the Johannes Jeep couplet and the utterly unidentified, barely translatable "Und alle Schiffe brücken.". From Wordnik.com. [The Scandal of 'Ulysses'] Reference
It wasn't quite THE STARS ARE ALSO FIRE 433 translatable into any Earthly tongue: the polite equivalent o/making no response whatsoever. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
In the Latin we have here two remarkable series of assonances, rhythmical to the ear, and though translatable in sense not so in euphony. From Wordnik.com. [De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream] Reference
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