translate
verb (used with object)
to turn from one language into another or from a foreign language into one's own.
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
What has the botanist done but to retranslate the communication of Nature into Idea, and then to express this idea by less complicated and less physical symbols?
From The Philosophy of Evolution Together With a Preliminary Essay on The Metaphysical Basis of Science by Stephen H. (Stephen Haskins) Carpenter
