Crossword-Solution: MISTRANSLATE 12 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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.

Our course then led us by the huge and hideous archipelago off the delta of Jeba and the Bolola, the latter being the 'Rio Grande' of Camoens, which Portuguese editors will print with small initials, and which translators mistranslate accordingly.

But all three, and before them Lord Byron and Carey, mistranslate this passage,-- "Per piu fiate gli occhi ci sospinse Quella lettura." All these translators interpret it to mean, that while they read, their eyes often met; whereas Dante says, they read that passage over more than once; or, literally rendered, several times that reading or passage drew to it their eyes.

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.

Theophilus says, "Hoc glutine omnis pictura _superlinita_ lucida fit et decora, ac omnino durabilis."--"Every picture _smeared over_ with this gluten becomes lucid and beautiful, and altogether durable." It might be thought almost impossible to mistranslate this.