By Translation, Metaphors

It is from the book "We need to talk about Kevin" written by Lionel Shriver. English IS her mother tongue. The novel even won Orange prize, which is awarded only to novels written in English, by female author.Ms Shriver likes to use many strange metaphors, some aptly made, some not. The book is...

Metaphor, as a typical feature of communication, presents a challenge for translation too, both for the practising translator and for its treatment in the discipline of Translation Studies. I don't know if treatment means handling or method or discussion or something...

Thanks everybody for sparing their times to check this topic.Please check it one last time if there is something wrong or odd looking.If I were the water, If I were the fireIf I were the sun in the skyIf I don't speak thus be/am/were a/the numbWould you play with me then?If I can't speak thus...

I've been away on holiday so thought I'd missed your final part of the translation of this strange book. This author certainly uses some very unusual metaphors and similes to my ears but ...... she's original to say the least. I think your own idea is the best ---- trying to keep alive this...

Thank you so mush. I've found such synonyms for "daydreaming" as "to be lost in reveries" and "to have one's mind wandering". Generally I use Google to make sure if a certain expression exists in English, for the word-for-word translation of Russian idioms, colloquialisms and metaphors of my own...

Thank you for your reply ! ......where the obvious desire of the officials to deal justly and see fair-play in disputes between natives and Europeans has partly compensated for a want of sympathetic understanding ,which has kept the English strangers in lands of alien culture. the meaning of "...

How about - The logic of a cheater is insanely ambitious: to preserve the hollow shell of his marriage intact at any cost and, at the same time, to maintain his fantasy, the 'trophy' mistress. I'd guessed that this was a translation and the imagery and metaphors are not yours ,Antonija's, and...

Hello, Can you please tell me if it sounds Ok and which one of the offered expressions is better. The excerpt refers to mistresses and the author addresses this text to wives whose husbands cheat on them. This is translation, that's why some of teh metaphors might seem akward. That exposed,...

Hi! 3. Trying to warm his way into the confidence of the orphans' new guardian (their aunt that is a grammar freak), Count Olaf says: Count Olaf: Why, perhaps it's just the ramblings of an expert fisherman, but grammar is the number-one most important thing in this here world to me. (A man...

Nowhere kid means nothing to me, perhaps it is a literal translation of a metaphor unknown in the west. Possibly nerd or geek but this has the meaning more of a kid obsessed with computers, they are not necessarily in seclusion!