This was translatable, or not, as you pleased.
"The Voice in the Fog"
Harold MacGrath
My mother, possessing a name that was not easily translatable, was punished with the undignified nickname of Annie.
"The Promised Land"
Mary Antin
Madeleine, alarmed as she was, could not help interposing, and hastily asked whether that remark was translatable.
"Democracy An American Novel"
Henry Adams