单词 | foreignizing |
释义 | foreignizingadj. 1. That exerts, or seeks to exert, a foreign influence; that makes or renders something foreign in character. ΚΠ 1868 J. Tillotson in Beeton's Boy's Own Mag. Jan. 25 It is your own flesh and blood..and not this foreignising schoolmaster, you should think of. 1934 E. R. Embree et al. Island India goes to School iii. 72 Other European powers are engaged in the same foreignizing programs in their colonies and differ from the Dutch only in carrying through that one-sided task..less thoroughly. 2001 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 14 Oct. 8 On one side are the five-bellied, triple-chinned pit-bull lardy lager lads, fighting a rear-guard action against the foreignising gentrification of everything. 2. Of a translation: that is or has been carried out in such a way that its foreign character is retained. Also of the language of a translated text: that gives a foreign character, such that the reader is conscious that translation has occurred. ΚΠ 1973 E. Boecker W. Faulkner's Later Novels in German i. 11 Schleiermacher..clearly advocates foreignization, reasoning that..a foreignizing translation will at the same time enrich the German language. 2003 J. Milton in S. Petrilli Transl., Transl. 567 Can a foreignizing text really help to extend the worldview of readers who are used to having everything coming from a foreign language adapted to their tastes and language habits? 2019 I. Helderman Prescribing Dharma 134 Many [translators] are transparent about their decisions to variously employ domesticizing or foreignizing language depending on the setting. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < adj.1868 |
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