retranslate
- a word derived from translate.
Example Sentences
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“Not to change them, just to retranslate them so their value is once again present.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 21, 2022
In translation it doubled in size and changed so much that after it was published, she had to retranslate it back into Spanish.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2016
In recent years, Wesleyan University Press has spearheaded the movement to retranslate the full texts of many of Jules Verne’s scientific romances, what he called his “voyages extraordinaires.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 2, 2015
But Nabokov claimed that Roy’s translation was “sloppy” and “full of blunders” and, when approached by a publisher about an American edition in 1938, he chose to retranslate the novel himself.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 4, 2014
It had originally been Scott's intention to retranslate the MS.; but he appears to have found it beyond his powers.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
