Can google recognize translated article ?

Soon I'm gonna start blogging, I've already chosen the niche. I plan to create this blog not for English readers, but for my natives. I found several sites about this niche in English and I was wondering if google can recognize directly translated articles ?

As it taking content from another site and translating it for your own domain?

Quite so, not all articles. Just few of them and some number of indention, not the full article.