When it seems impossible to find a solution to complicated phrases in English, an interpreter has to do some research. A good idea is to try find the expression used in different contexts. Sometimes while doing research you may find the definition of that specific phrase.
If you are trying to understand a phrase and would like to see it in context, put the phrase between quotation marks in Google search. For example, if I am trying to understand the phrase double bottom-line considerations, my Google search will look like this:
"double bottom-line considerations"
This search will give me among others the specific definition of the phrase; have a look at this web page:
http://www.ehow.com/about_5072982_definition-double-bottom-line.html
Naus vs. ship
Look at this interesting quote about thought-for-thought vs. word-for-word translation:
"I was beginning to think in Greek. That is the great Rubicon to cross in learning any language. Those in whom the Greek word lives only while they are hunting for it in the lexicon, and who then substitute the English word for it, are not reading the Greek at all; they are only solving a puzzle.
The very formula, "Naus means a ship," is wrong. Naus and ship both mean a thing, they do not mean one another. Behind naus, as behind navis or naca, we want to have a picture of a dark, slender mass with sail or oars, climbing the ridges, with no officious English word intruding."
-C. S. Lewis, "Surprised by Joy"
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