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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