overtranslate

present singular third person overtranslates · participle present overtranslating · participle past overtranslated · past overtranslated

1. human sciencesTo translate (language) in too much detail, or including the translation of things that should be left as they are.

   Translate the gateway, but don't overtranslate

   2010, John Yunker, The Art of the Global Gateway: Strategies for Successful Multilingual Navigation, Byte Level Books, →ISBN, page 86

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   When we select too-specific a rendering, we overtranslate, and, thus, risk adding information which may not be true.

   1974, American Translators Association, State University of New York at Binghamton. Translation Center, Translators and translating: selected essays from the American Translators Association summer workshops, 1974, page 8

   To overtranslate: 'as far as my having slaves is concerned, I have – none'.

   2010, Eleanor Dickey, Anna Chahoud, Colloquial and Literary Latin, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 179