Usage examples of "traducteurs" in French with translation to English

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Les Italiens disent que les traducteurs sont des traîtres. The Italians say that translators are traitors.

Beaucoup, sinon la plupart des traducteurs professionnels traduisent seulement vers leur langue natale. Many, if not most, professional translators only translate into their native language.

Ces traducteurs allemands sont d'une improductivité, Tatoeba devrait délocaliser la production en Asie ! These German translators are so unproductive, Tatoeba should delocalise production to Asia!

Un problème que les traducteurs rencontrent est que parfois le document original est mal écrit. One problem translators face is that sometimes the source document is poorly written.

Les traducteurs professionnels se spécialisent souvent dans un seul domaine, par exemple le droit ou la médecine. Professional translators quite often specialize in just one field, for example law or medicine.

Les traducteurs ont souvent tendance - consciemment ou pas - à « expliquer » un texte, à le rendre plus logique que l'original. Translators often tend, consciously or not, to "explain" a text by making it more logical than the original.

Les traducteurs allemands, toujours en retard, n'avaient pas encore traduit cette phrase et Tom et Mary s'inquiétaient de savoir s'ils devraient passer par une autre traduction pour atteindre la phrase en lojban. The German translators, always late, hadn't translated this sentence yet, and Tom and Mary worried as to whether they should go through another translation to reach the sentence in Lojban.

Cette phrase n'a pas de possesseur. Vous pouvez l'adopter et la changer, pourvu qu'elle corresponde toujours aux autres traductions directes, auquel cas vous devriez prévenir les traducteurs de vos changements, en commentant leurs traductions. This sentence has no owner. You may adopt and change it, provided it will still match its direct translations, in which case you should warn the translators of your changes by commenting on their translations.

J'ai besoin d'un traducteur. I need a translator.

Parce que je veux devenir traducteur. Because I want to be a translator.

J'étudie pour devenir traducteur ou interprète. I am studying to be a translator or interpreter.

Le traducteur se trouvait dans l'impossibilité d'expliquer ce qu'il voulait dire. The translator found it impossible to explain what he meant.

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