google-translate

present singular third person google-translates · participle present google-translating · participle past google-translated · past google-translated

1. alternativeAlternative form of Google Translate.

   A lot of what I was looking at came up in Italian. I google-translated it.

   2014, Ali Smith, “[Camera]”, in How to Be Both, New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 322

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   She spent hours on Wikipedia, wading through blogs, posting to forums and google-translating pages and pages of Cyrillic, trying to understand how the Russkaya Mafiya worked.

   2013, Julie Fison, chapter 18, in Tall, Dark and Distant, Melbourne, Vic.: Hardie Grant Egmont, →ISBN, page 207

   The piece had been published four months ago. I google-translated and lucked out with relative readability.

   2023, Jonathan Kellerman, Unnatural History (Alex Delaware; 38), New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN

present singular third person Google-Translates · participle present Google-Translating · participle past Google-Translated · past Google-Translated

1. alternativeAlternative form of Google Translate.

   Before heading into the camera shop, I Google-Translated the appropriate photography-related vocabulary and figured out how to describe what we needed.

   2015, Marianne C. Bohr, “La France Profonde”, in Gap Year Girl: A Baby Boomer Adventure Across 21 Countries, Berkeley, Calif.: She Writes Press, →ISBN, page 89

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   A few weeks ago, I wrote a column in which I complained about being forced to write fewer words than usual. As a protest, I then petulantly switched to more concise languages, including teenage Twitterspeak, aboriginal Australian and also, in some places where my column was published, Hebrew. How did I obtain the Hebrew? I Google-Translated my own lines.

   2013 December 8, Gene Weingarten, “Repenting sins”, in Ray Rivera, editor, The Santa Fe New Mexican, 164th year, number 342, Santa Fe, N.M.: Ginny Sohn, →ISSN, →OCLC, page C-8, column 5

   I had no clue what he was talking about, but as we were by the Wi-Fi Wall I Google-Translated it on my phone and it turned out he was asking me to go to the teenage disco on Friday night!

   2022, Katie Kirby, “Monday 15 August”, in The Mega-Complicated Crushes of Lottie Brooks (Lottie Brooks; 3), London: Puffin Books, →ISBN

present singular third person Google-translates · participle present Google-translating · participle past Google-translated · past Google-translated

1. alternativeAlternative form of Google Translate.

   I Google-translated the lyrics, thinking maybe the story would help me remember, but there’s no story at all.

   2017, Raquel Rivera, chapter 8, in Show Mode (Orca Limelights), Victoria, B.C.: Orca Book Publishers, →ISBN, page 49

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   There was a letter inside, a Google-translated message in Ukrainian asking Slava L. to provide me and my party with pot in Uman. I had not asked the stoned guy to do this, but it had seemed impolite to refuse the note. He’d gone to the trouble of Google-translating it back and forth several times, as if by this process the translation of the pot request might be incrementally refined.

   2012, Gideon Lewis-Kraus, “Uman”, in A Sense of Direction: Pilgrimage for the Restless and the Hopeful, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, →ISBN, page 266

   Probably every old city in Italy has a Via del Corso. Without Google-translating it, I’d just call it Main Street, a principal artery through the city center, often with limited or no auto traffic.

   2017, Rick Bailey, “What’s New”, in American English, Italian Chocolate: Small Subjects of Great Importance, Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 191