a word or expression in a language that is a translation of a word or expression in another language 仿造词，借译词语（外国词语的直译词） ‘Traffic calming’ is a calque of the German ‘Verkehrsberuhigung’. traffic calming 是由德语 Verkehrsberuhigung 直译过来的。 🔊🔊
Word Origin1930s: from French, literally ‘copy, tracing’, from calquer ‘to trace’, via Italian from Latin calcare ‘to tread’.