| 释义 |
retransˈlate, v.|riː-|
[re- 5 a.]
trans. To translate again, or back into the original language.
1860G. H. Lewes Let. c 10 July in Geo. Eliot Lett. (1954) III. 319 There are paragraphs which read like a translation from a language into which one cannot retranslate them. 1861J. Pycroft Ways & Words 157 Of Cicero..he had translated and retranslated every extant oration. 1882Farrar Early Chr. I. 209, I have thought it best to retranslate the whole of it as closely as I could.
Hence retransˈlating vbl. n.
1867Ch. Times 4 May 156/4 Words that have for a long time been controversial watch-words have lost all intelligible meaning for the mass of hearers, and want retranslating. |