translation
noun
the rendering of something into another language or into one's own from another language.
retranslation
-
a word derived from
translation.
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
In translating these documents into English I have freely used the various translations already published in other languages; but in all cases more or less revision and retranslation from the original has been made.
From Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri First series, IVth to XIIth dynasty by Sir W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders) Petrie
It was really a retranslation into French from Goethe.
From Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) by John Morley
