The Welsh renderings are not straightforward translations in the modern sense, but by contemporary standards, they are generally close to their Latin source text, with only some commentary or additional material from bardic traditional lore (cyfarwydd) appended to the text.
A reasonably straightforward translation might look like this:
The ordinaries were straightforward translations of the Mass texts.
In English, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday are straightforward translations of these Roman names.
The transfer method (also called sentence translation strategy) simply carries a straightforward translation of s into p and then another translation of p into t without using probabilistic tests (as in triangulation).
In other words, I wondered whether I ought to be doing a straightforward translation or a new version.
With the recent surge of interest in literature about the bombings (spearheaded by Sebald), "Payback" has come back into print, and it now appears in English for the first time in this straightforward translation by Shaun Whiteside.
This version features a relatively straightforward French translation of the lyrics and has a slightly demo-ish sound.
The production does ingeniously sidestep the tedium of straightforward simultaneous translation by giving its main characters "shadows," or interior selves, who turn signed language into spoken words and vice versa.
A Montreal diner, the Victoria Hot Dog Lunch Counter, solved its name problem with a straightforward translation.