Newmanize

构词拆解

词干

后缀

-ize: Used to form verbs from nouns or adjectives, especially similative verbs

词源说明

Coined as Newman +‎ -ize by Matthew Arnold in a lecture at Oxford on November 30, 1861 (published in 1862 as On Translating Homer: Last Words) in which he criticized a translation by Francis William Newman.

释义

动词verb

1(derogatory) To translate in a manner that makes use of archaisms and which tends to closely follow the original rather than modernize the language in the translation.