Example Sentences

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“I think of it as a retranslation of speech patterns, like you find with MCs and in hip-hop.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 28, 2017

For weeks, I fielded calls from anxious relatives, inventing excuse after excuse as to why I had still not produced a groundbreaking retranslation of “War and Peace.”

From Salon • Feb. 10, 2014

Anyone invoking the Bible these days is always well advised to double-check his quotation; in the current flurry of Biblical revision and retranslation, it might have suddenly become archaic or incorrect.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mere retranslation of traditional terms�"Word of God." "redemption." "justification," "grace," "eternal life"�is not possible, says Niebuhr, without "the actualities" which people in another age knew intimately when they used these terms.

From Time Magazine Archive

The original translator, at a meeting of the group, has submitted his work to the rest for criticism and correction, amounting at times to retranslation.

From Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume I) by Luther, Martin