Word-for-word

We want natural-sounding translations, not word-for-word direct translations.

You cannot translate the sentence word-for-word.

There's no need to try to translate a phrase word-for-word.

This sentence seems awkward to me and perhaps is too much of a word-for-word translation of the German.

I don't translate English to Japanese word-for-word.

"Why does this quote from Einstein sound like a word-for-word translation from the English? He can't have said it like that." "Probably because it is in fact a translation from the English."

This text reads like a word-for-word translation from the English.

To translate is to express in one language an idea expressed in another idiom. This can rarely be done by a literal, word-for-word translation.

These word-for-word translations are unintelligible in French. In other words, it's just plain gibberish.

His essay was a word-for-word copy of one on the Internet.