mistranslate
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When the interpreter is a no-show, family members often jump in to fill the gap - like the time Ray mischievously stepped up to "mistranslate" his school parents' evening to his own advantage.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2021
I then heard the interpreter mistranslate this question into Mandarin as “Why didn’t the interpreter interpret everything?”
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 12, 2015
Emoji also tend to mistranslate when sent between platforms, or they get jumbled if you don’t have the right font.
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2014
Did they mistranslate “world’s largest professional network” as “professional network that people actually use”?
From Slate ● Jun. 7, 2012
To translate it as ‘machine of the world’ is to mistranslate.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Another popular choice is the Chinese character for “freedom,” which mistranslates to mian fei, or “free of charge.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2023
Lane mistranslates, "Made for her a funeral procession."
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
One chunk of land was secured by one of Shehu’s lawyers in 2007 by presenting property officials a mistranslated Ottoman-era land record.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Angwang told The Associated Press his words were either mistranslated from Mandarin or taken out of context.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 9, 2023
The article is based heavily on Chinese-language documents that appear to have been mistranslated and misinterpreted, according to Chinese language experts who have piled on via social media since its publication.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2022
The discrepancy suggests that the survivors’ account of Mr. Takahashi could have been misunderstood, mistranslated or ignored.
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
This accurate description somehow got mistranslated as ‘tube’, but modern medicine seems to be stuck with the inaccurate version of the term.’
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
Her Asian-American critics, like Jeffery Chan and Benjamin Tong, accused her of inauthenticity, willfully mistranslating Chinese stories and customs to appeal to a white readership.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 30, 2019
One of his interpreters confessed to frequently mistranslating his boss so as to make sense of the nonsense Arafat had spoken.
From Time Magazine Archive
And cites Prisot; mistranslating 'ancien scripture' into 'holy scripture.'
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson
This word "charity" was one of the words that Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor of England, charged Tyndale with mistranslating.
From The Woman's Bible by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
He misstates it thus: "To such laws of the church as have warrant in holy scripture, our law giveth credence," and cites Prisot, mistranslating "ancien scripture" into holy scripture.
From The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy by Holyoake, George Jacob
