inexact translation

The word sherdas, an inexact translation.

Inexact translation.

Avienus made somewhat inexact translations into Latin of Aratus' didactic poem Phaenomena.

LEAD: Making Schubert's chamber music understood in a space like Avery Fisher Hall is by necessity an inexact translation.

("Death to America" is an inexact translation of "Marg Bar Amrika", but is supposed to mean "Down with America").

President Pasqua has already stressed the problem of the lack of translations. Our group is today stressing that there is not only a lack of translations but also inexact translations.

Considering the young shaman's name-an inexact translation by Smithe and Fer-de-lance, it turned out, of a virtually unpronounceable Kandakandero word-he guessed his notions must have something to do with eschatology, with apocalypticism, with time.

The title is an inexact translation of the phrase Mr. Rossel used in recalling how the camp's silent, wide-eyed internees (whom he retrospectively terms Israelis, not Jews) had looked upon him as "un vivant qui passe."

Mostly Mozart's program of Schubert on Friday night, in other words, was comprised of music meant for home and friends, not the nearly 3,000 well air-conditioned New Making Schubert's chamber music understood in a space like Avery Fisher Hall is by necessity an inexact translation.