Interpreter, n.:
One who enables two persons of different languages to
understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to
the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
One who enables two persons of different languages to
understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to
the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Related:
- Interpreter, n.:
One who enables two persons of different languages to
understand each other by repeating to each what it would have
been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have
said.
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have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pocket
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