undertranslateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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undertranslate (third-person singular simple present undertranslates, present participle undertranslating, simple past and past participle undertranslated)

1. (translation studies) To translate (language) in insufficient detail, or failing to translate certain elements.

   Coordinate term: overtranslate

   • 1991, Peter Newmark, About Translation, Multilingual Matters, →ISBN, page 104:

     Secondly, there is a tendency to undertranslate, viz. to normalise by generalising, to understate, in all translation but particularly in literary translation.

   • 2017, Geraldine Brodie, Adapting Translation for the Stage, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 45:

     Only Borell and Adam undertranslate this opener as "What brings you here, Adler?"

   • 2019, David R. Miller, Greek Pedagogy in Crisis: A Pedagogical Analysis and Assessment of New Testament Greek in Twenty-First-Century Theological Education, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 185:

     I was told specifically that they were going to undertranslate differences between, say, present and aorist infinitives, because there was no agreement on how to handle the differences.

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