Portuguese to English Translation

What is the most important thing you require in a translation? Obviously, you need the meaning to be accurately conveyed. You want the grammar to be correct. And you would like it to be rendered in clean, clear prose. Yet many translators fail to deliver even these basics. We have all read translations that are clumsily worded, plagued with grammar and spelling errors, and in some cases nearly indecipherable.

Here for example is a Portuguese to English translation generated by the machine translator Systran:

Reconhecendo-se que a história da arte não é um ramo da história e sim, uma disciplina autônoma, têm-se buscado na anáise das imagens visuais, estabelecer uma relação interdisciplinar entre os dois campos do conhecimento. O artigo "O inferno brasileiro. O tempo das imagens e o tempo da história" partindo da análise de três obras datadas do século XVI e que tratam do mesmo tema, visa compreender o/ porque da continuidade de um corpus de imagens concebido no medievo, em pleno renascimento, demonstrando como as imagens visuais participaram ativamente no conflito travado entre católicos e protestantes pelo novo mundo, ultrapassando o domínio puramente religioso e tornando-se agentes de uma propaganda política.

Recognizing itself that the history of the art is not a branch of history and yes, one disciplines autonomous worker, has searched in the analysis of the visual images, to establish a relation to interdisciplinar enters the two fields of the knowledge. The article "the Brazilian hell. The time of the images and the time of history" leaving of the analysis of three dated workmanships of century XVI and that they deal with subject, aim at to understand because the same of the continuity of a corpus of images conceived in medievo, full renaissance, demonstrating as the visual images had actively participated in the conflict stopped between catholics and protestants for the new world, exceeding the religious domain purely and becoming agents of a propaganda politics.
As you can see, the machine translation is perfectly illegible. Lacking a brain to register context, the machine generates nonsensical phrases such as "full renaissance" and "propaganda politics."

Recognizing that the history of art is not a branch of history, but rather an autonomous discipline, the analysis of visual images has attempted to forge an inter-disciplinary link between the two fields of knowledge. The article "O inferno brasileiro. O tempo das imagens e o tempo da história" (The Brazilian Hell, the eras of image and history), based on the analysis of three works dating from the 16th century which deal with the same subject, seeks to understand why a corpus of images conceived in the middle ages, at the height of the Renaissance, should endure. All of the aforementioned demonstrates the active role played by visual imagery in the conflict between Catholics and Protestants in the New World, and how, by transcending the purely religious, such imagery transformed itself into an agent of political propaganda.
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