How To Use Mistranslate In A Sentence
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The phrase, which we mistranslate from the Portuguese, was first used by Brazilian players, who actually said they wanted to play beautifully, with lethal grace and twirling exhibitionism.
The big picture: the England squad relax at their hotel in Leon, Mexico, on 14 June 1970
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The ways in which stressed and unstressed syllables can be arranged in English verse have come to be named after the various kinds of Greek ‘foot’ they seem to resemble, when one mistranslates ‘long syllable’ as ‘stressed syllable’.
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And if I have mistranslated, remember that it's all from my memory, mate.
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She said I had to allow her to review all the footage I shot, claiming that this would ensure that I not mistranslate words she used like kibbush, a Hebrew term that means "conquest" but is commonly used to refer to the occupation of Palestine.
Max Blumenthal: The Carmel Wildfire Is Burning All Illusions in Israel
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The first three lines would be hard to mistranslate.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Perhaps the word ‘above’ was mistranslated, meaning ‘beyond’?
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He mistranslates the word for ‘love-sorcery worked with roots’, which he renders as ‘she should not be a scold.’
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Why take the trouble to bang out good lines - supposing one can - if they'll only be mistranslated for their real target markets, abroad?
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This question was finally answered when I came to Bulgaria, where they can frequently be found on restaurant menus and often hilariously mistranslated into English as "hards".
Bizarre Foods BG: Chicken Hearts
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The first three lines would be hard to mistranslate.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The last sentence in particular was originally mistranslated, and the correction was made before this case was considered by the District Judge.
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There you'll find about a hundred cartoons, many with strangely poetic mistranslated English text.
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Most of the plot seems to have been lifted from a mistranslated Vietnamese medicine bottle label.
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Catchall term for a variety of Mediterranean herbs, from origanum syriacum (Syrian oregano, often mistranslated as “thyme”) to satureja hortensis (summer savory).
Day of Honey
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It's man-made policy based on broad interpretations and misinterpretations of select, ancient, translated, retranslated and mistranslated texts.
Michele Somerville: A Frock Does Not A Priest Make
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My story led to an excited chairwoman phoning me to offer me proof that the story of the wedding at Cana had been mistranslated for years, and that her belief was that the story involved Jesus transforming water into grape juice.
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Western journalists who don't know Iraqi history have routinely mistranslated the name of this group.
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The fault is mine, it's clear I grossly mistranslated the scrolls.
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Often, by the time the answer was given, it was clear that the question or the answer, or both, had been mistranslated.
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They mistranslate their philosophy into ‘free love’, and I've finally convinced them that free love in English has a lot of baggage attached to it, that it doesn't have in German.
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I do not need or want his "salvation" and I am grateful to know that the afterlife is not as described in your often plagiarized and mistranslated book.
Friendly religious questions for Christians and other monotheists
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And if I have mistranslated, remember that it's all from my memory, mate.
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The novel was published here, a rather mistranslated version.
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One of the most commonly mistranslated Hebrew words is chait, which we usually see translated as ‘sin.’
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A few weeks later, however, at another court hearing, the Justice Department admitted that the key word was mistranslated.
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Arabic documents are mistranslated by the few overworked linguists, substantially delaying investigations.
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Farsi speakers have pointed out that he was mistranslated.
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Another thing important to this book is this whole story about how the German edition was mistranslated.
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(The word Easter appears only once in the King James Version of the Bible-in Acts 12: 4-where it is flagrantly mistranslated from the Greek word pascha, which should be translated "Passover," as most versions render it.)
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It is commonly mistranslated in judo circles as the ‘taker’ of a technique.
