Meaning of Google Translate | Babel Free

Definitions

To translate (something) using the Google Translate machine translation service.

ambitransitive

Examples

“Doing life admin in your own⟳ country is arduous enough, but attempting to do it in a foreign land⟳, in a language with which you’re still not familiar, is nigh on impossible. After eleven months of Google Translating every document that came my way, I’ve become⟳ a little slack of late.”

“Cleaning the pastry cutter with her spatula, Corie’s mind⟳ dipped to the little journal of Natalie’s. She’d Google Translated some of it, but for the most part, it didn’t make⟳ any sense⟳. It mentioned the first crush⟳, the alignment of the stars, the comet that year …”

“After having the unfortunate experience⟳ of needing an emergency root canal while holidaying in Berlin (I didn’t realise⟳ it was a root canal until I Google Translated the receipt the next day – it certainly explains why it took so long and why the drugs they pumped into me made the three-hour Third Reich walking tour I went on immediately after the operation seem very visceral) I knew I needed to find⟳ a proper dentist when I got back to Melbourne.”

“Topics range from funerals to the idea of the poetics of google translating Swedish song lyrics.”

“I google translated je t’embrasse. Lovely.”

“You called me a dumbass at the Baseball House. I google translated it.”

“Anyway, I tried Google translating this but apparently I can’t spell⟳ for shit because it tells me he’s saying, ‘I want⟳ very much to woo you.’”

“Digby pointed to bottles labeled in a foreign script. “Is that Hindi?” he said. / “Thai,” Silk replied. / Digby Google translated it. “Nandrolone decanoate.” But he looked skeptical.”

“On 27 October 2016, Yana’s appeal is heard. In the night of 28 October, shells strike⟳ Makiivka. All I find⟳ in English is obvious Russian propaganda, blaming the explosion on ‘Ukrainian fascists’; I try⟳ Google translating a Russian article that a friend of Yana’s in Paris, the Ukrainian journalist Anna Chesanovska, sends me.”

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