| 单词 | translator-traitor |
| 释义 | > as lemmastranslator-traitor translator-traitor n. [after Italian traduttore, traditore, lit. ‘translator, traitor’ (mid 18th cent. or earlier)] an unfaithful or inaccurate translator. ΚΠ 1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 28 Sept. 2/2 [He] has fallen into the clutches of a ‘translator-traitor’ if ever there was one, who has not only corrected no blunder, but added an enormous mass of mistranslations and misprints. 1949 World Politics 2 98 Whether or not this procedure springs out of the old fear of the translator-traitor it seems to indicate an eagerness on Moscow's part to have its version of diplomatic history read and possibly embraced in the West. 1997 L. Hewson in K. Simms Translating Sensitive Texts i. 48 The well-worn image of the translator-traitor. < as lemmas |
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