to retranslate
- verb
- /ˌriːtrænˈsleɪt/
- But I still wish that they would just adopt Cranmer and get a good 17th-century scholar to retranslate the necessary amendments.
- retranslate the manual
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Watch on YouTubeI I retranslate Kingdom of Heaven into modern terminology.
- I I retranslate Kingdom of Heaven into modern terminology.
- And as I was retranslating it and rereading it, I found many different shapes to the poem.
Examples
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The scale was translated into Hebrew and retranslated into English by bilingual individuals; it was tested by independent judges for comparability and relevance.
Academic text (2002) -
In about twenty cases, they were retranslated to check for accuracy.
Blog text (25) -
And as I was retranslating it and rereading it, I found many different shapes to the poem.
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It's the Pentateuch and it's retranslated in a very startling style.
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Mr. Birnbaum first translated it in 1975 and retranslated it in 1995.
Fiction book (1996) -
Ussher's Annals of the World has been retranslated from the Latin original (Pierce 2003).
Blog text (8) -
This is particularly true of a survivor of the Holocaust and self-exiled writer like Federman, who has had to continually retranslate his life story into new narrative patterns and languages.
Academic text (1994) -
In his mid-20s, he took it upon himself to retranslate Rainer Maria Rilke's "Duino Elegies" from the German, in collaboration with Jay Wilson, when he could not find an English-language version that satisfied him.
Blog text (9) -
To ensure clarity, I had to retranslate the article into more straightforward language.
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The publisher decided to retranslate the novel to better resonate with modern readers.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Retranslate starts with re- meaning 'again' and the part translate, which comes from a word that means 'to carry across', like transport. So to retranslate is to 'translate again' to make the meaning clearer or better fit a new situation.