Translating; How to Avoid Pitfalls

I once heard an American telling a Romanian congregation that things are so bad in Cuba that each Cuban has a ration of only two pounds of beans per month. The translator, not knowing what pounds were, translated this as “two beans.”

Currently, article after article and book after book refer to the poor? But seldom is the word poor carefully defined.

Cuba is the only country in the Western Hemisphere closed to resident foreign missionaries.