The phrase, which we mistranslate from the Portuguese, was first used by Brazilian players, who actually said they wanted to play beautifully, with lethal grace and twirling exhibitionism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The big picture: the England squad relax at their hotel in Leon, Mexico, on 14 June 1970] Reference

It might be thought almost impossible to mistranslate this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference

He couldn't afford to mistranslate or misrepresent this sort of thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bear and the Dragon]

She tries to scream; smart implants feel tongue and lips in motion, mistranslate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starfish] Reference

For this reason, it is important to know the French spelling so as not to mistranslate!.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Word-A-Day:] Reference

The commonest Latin phrases, which the dullest schoolboy could not mistranslate, he misunderstands, turning the pleasant sense of the worthy commentator into the most self-contradictory nonsense.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator] Reference

Instead of simply omitting Penn's acceptance speech, as they did for Dustin Lance Black, China's censors decided to mistranslate Penn's words so that his speech appeared to make no mention of gays.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Flumenbaum: How Beijing Butchered Sean Penn's "Commie, Homo-Loving" Oscar Speech] Reference

In no way can the indirect object of the verb "donner" be Wolin, although this is precisely the point that Mr. Sheehan is obviously bent on making, even if he has to mistranslate in order to do so.    From Wordnik.com.  ['L'Affaire Derrida': Yet Another Exchange] Reference

They deliberately mistranslate his ads to reflect their own clunky slogans, and he resents their interference, since what could they know about winning free and fair elections, being recently converted Commies and all.    From Wordnik.com.  [FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER] Reference

Why would all official versions “mistranslate” such an error, especially as other mistranslations or transcription errors are problems which have an origin rationally evident of substitution of a single character of script.    From Wordnik.com.  [Creationists on the Square in Madison, Wisconsin - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

She said I had to allow her to review all the footage I shot, claiming that this would ensure that I not mistranslate words she used like kibbush, a Hebrew term that means "conquest" but is commonly used to refer to the occupation of Palestine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Max Blumenthal: The Carmel Wildfire Is Burning All Illusions in Israel] Reference

The notion that all those highly motivated, highly learned scholars, over all these hundreds of years, managed to mistranslate the most read book on the planet or at least the most owned, is preposterous on its face without a mountain of evidence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gimme that Old Pharisee Religion - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

If subjects speak both languages being used then they will pick one voice to listen to and usually filter out the other - as I did when participating in a stage show by Martin St. James in Taiwan where the interpreter spoke Chinese albeit, in that case I did get a bit distracted by the interpreter's tendency to mistranslate some phrases such as "you are feeling sleepy" to "I am feeling sleepy".    From Wordnik.com.  [Language Barriers and Hypnosis] Reference

Would she not mistranslate or delete the recording?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blather.net newsfeed] Reference

Blogger spell check does not recognize the word "mistranslate.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Japan without the sugar] Reference

It's called "Haibao, Call me," but the lyrics mistranslate his name into "Hipo.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Shanghaiist] Reference

"I did mistranslate that bit, and it's pretty much as Jason stated in his first comment ...".    From Wordnik.com.  [ryuganji: film news from japan] Reference

Portuguese editors will print with small initials, and which translators mistranslate accordingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I] Reference

To make these passages serve their purposes, these polemicists frequently mistranslate them or cite them out of context.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com] Reference

"I did mistranslate that bit, and it's pretty much as Jason stated in his first comment ..." jasong on Film business in the 21st Century, part one.    From Wordnik.com.  [ryuganji: film news from japan] Reference

Somewhere between college and kids, men have managed to mistranslate the rigorous responsibilities of adulthood into a wardrobe devoid of any flavor.    From Wordnik.com.  [AskMen.com - HOME PAGE] Reference

Actually both the Chinese and Tibetans mistranslate theocratic -- it really means something more like John Major's back to basics than the Ayatollahs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

I will post here from the non muslim translator Arthur John Arberry, because he would have no ulterior motives to mistranslate the words. the first chapter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pak Tea House] Reference

Let us see to it that we do not mistranslate the meaning of the longing, or fancy that it can be found in the ignoble, the selfish, the worldly ways to which I have referred.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.] Reference

To make these passages serve their purposes, these polemicists frequently mistranslate them or cite them out of context (wholesale fabrication of passages is not unknown) ….    From Wordnik.com.  [Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com] Reference

Leslie turned to voice his irritation and surprise to Norine, but she had slipped away, so he glared at O'Reilly, wondering how the latter had so artfully managed to mistranslate his remarks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rainbow's End] Reference

Palestinian translators and fixers may be necessary but those with a political agenda can be selective with the information they feed the journalist or, at worst, mistranslate the words of the interview subjects.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

He treats the drunkard Lebedyev with respect and, though his books contain other characters as absurd as any in Dickens, he does not introduce them, like Dickens, to make fun of them, but only because he is interested in the manner in which their absurdities mistranslate them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Criticisms and Interpretations. III. From the London “Times] Reference

Not only did Al Jazeera, (which some believe is doing Arab world's bidding to isolate Iran and create friction between her and the West), mistranslate Ahmadinejad's quote by replacing the words "occupying regime" with "Israel," but the occupation that Ahmadinejad had hinted at in the original quote was eliminated to make the statement an irrational and irreconcilable desire to annihilate the people in Israel -- and by extension, Jews, because in the eyes of neoconservatives, no Arabs lives in Israel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sam Sedaei: The Anatomy of Neoconservative Propaganda] Reference

Tayng did not mistranslate often or intentionally, he didn’t have to, he had the situation totally under control.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-27] Reference

Perhaps Mr. Rosen is in need of courses in Modern Standard Arabic-perhaps he DID mistranslate/misunderst and the Imam’s tirades.    From Wordnik.com.  [Babylonian Hostility | Jewschool] Reference

Only if you want to mistranslate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Hisself, My Son, and a Thought About Prescriptivism:] Reference

But did we mistranslate it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joystiq] Reference

Please dont mistranslate Qur'aan.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Saudi researcher warns against Internet, electronic games] Reference

She won’t mistranslate, Surim injected.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voice of the Gods]