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i am an ma student in translation and in need of articles related to translating idioms containing names of animals from english into arabic thank you
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i am an ma student in translation and in need of articles related to translating idioms containing names of animals from english into arabic thank you
You might be successful in translating the meaning of an English idiom into Arabic. However I think it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to translate the actual idiom and keep the same meaning.
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