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Перевод: untranslatable

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Тезаурус:

1. There are concepts that are just untranslatable.
2. They are also almost untranslatable, since, as in Sappho, the golden language is greater than the subject.
3. A typical exhibit, Thomas Kapielsky's witty "Kseplatte" is an object the size and shape of a record (platte) which also looks like a section of a round cheese (Kse); but the thing visualises at the same time an untranslatable German pun (while "Kseplatte" is normally a selection of cheeses in a restaurant, "Kse" is also colloquial for crap which can of course refer to music as well as to art).
4. That almost untranslatable word means bloodymindedness, defiance and spite.
5. The songs usually have as themes lamentation, fate, disgrace, love, jealousy, misadventure or saudades , a virtually untranslatable word meaning a mixture of fondness and nostalgia.
6. What writers from past centuries believed about the world, the sky, themselves is often untranslatable, and we will never quite master it without the help of a guide.
7. Bernice tried to read his expression, but it was untranslatable.
8. From Sounion comes a splendidly illuminating decree of the demesmen, which reads: "It seemed good to the men of Sounion: since Leukios has given the demesmen land to build an agora , three men are to be chosen straight away to measure an area not less than 2 plethra by 1, so that there shall be broad space for the men of Sounion to agorazein " (the last word is untranslatable: "carry on all the activities usual in an agora" is accurate but too prosaic; there is also the sense of "promenading oneself: Syll. 925).
9. De Gaulle announced, "Les rformes oui, le chienlit untranslatable army vulgarity non!"
10. In fact, even the Japanese language version of these is worth a look, if only for the few English words that remain obstinately untranslatable and stick out glaringly among the elegant Japanese characters.