Table 7 Examples of figurative speech from the film Lion King.
No. | Utterance | Translation A | Back translation A | Translation B | Back translation B | Translation C | Back translation C |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | To die for |
| You’ll die of joy |
| You’ll die of happiness |
| You’ll love it to death |
2 | He looks blue |
| He looks pale |
| He looks dim |
| He looks upset |
3 | Golden |
| His hair looks golden to me |
| I see him lit up |
| I say it is |
4 | This stinks |
| I smell something rotten |
| The scent is obvious |
| The story smells |
