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mistranslation

[ UK /mɪstɹænslˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. an incorrect translation

How To Use mistranslation In A Sentence

  • This paper makes efforts to analyze with full and accurate examples how ideology, poetics, value and religion affect Lin Shu and induce his cultural mistranslation .
  • I should never object to calling a graceless duke Tour Grace: nor to praying for a villariously bad monarch as our most religious and gracious King (I know quite well, small critic, that religious is an absurd mistranslation: but let us take the liturgy in the sense in which ninety-nine out of every hundred who hear it understand it): for it seems to me that the daily recurring phrases are something ever suggesting what mankind have a right to expect from those in eminent station; and a kindly determination to believe that such are at least endeavoring to be what they ought. The Recreations of a Country Parson
  • There are no amusing typos, which is a notable absence given that mistranslations have been a mainstay of British comedy for decades.
  • There are no amusing typos, which is a notable absence given that mistranslations have been a mainstay of British comedy for decades.
  • The unfortunate mistranslation of water hyacinth as "water lily" is seen less frequently these days. Did you know? Lake Chapala under attack from water hyacinth
  • The adoption of the term virgin was not a mistranslation: it was a judgment of the translators based on the texts which they had before them and the audience for which the translation was intended. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 2
  • Anthropology provides theoretical frame for the thesis, making it convenient to classify ideational mistranslation into five categories, as addressed previously.
  • Your typical correspondent carps about a mistranslation, a geographical inaccuracy, an obscure word obscurely misused.
  • Excursions into linguistics amount to no more than a series of folk etymologies and mistranslations. The Times Literary Supplement
  • One of the important ways to avoid mistranslation is to reveal the factors responsible for misinterpretation and cultural conflicts underlying the languages.
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