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 Re: Translating Idioms
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Originally Posted by rewboss  An antonymic translation, just to clear this one up, is not a word-for-word translation. It is a type of transformation where a positive sentence is translated by a negative sentence, or vice-versa. For example (a random example I found on the internet), take the Russian sentence:
Nye dyerzhitye rebyonka na solntse.
Literally translated, this would be:
Do not keep the child in the sun.
But that is not how we normally say it in English. A better translation would be:
Keep your child out of the sun. | 
antonymic translation can be tricky too... |