undertranslateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

under- +‎ translate

動詞

undertranslate (三人称単数 現在形 undertranslates, 現在分詞 undertranslating, 過去形および過去分詞形 undertranslated)

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