undertranslate

present singular third person undertranslates · participle present undertranslating · participle past undertranslated · past undertranslated

1. human sciencesTo translate (language) in insufficient detail, or failing to translate certain elements.

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

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

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

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

   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.

   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