Where is the high quality machine translation? I spend most of my time in countries where I don't speak the same language as the majority of people and text tha

Where is the high quality machine translation? I spend most of my time in countries where I don't speak the same language as the majority of people and text that I encounter, so I am using machine translation many times per day. My experience of the average quality of machine translation is extremely low. It garbles meaning a majority of the time, and in a significant minority of cases destroys meaning completely. To me the idea that you could translate an encyclopedia, where accuracy of meaning is critical, using such technology in its current state is horrifying. By contrast the abstract/semantic approach seems to have some potential, although I can't imagine it working well for all articles.