calque
noun /kælk/
/kælk/
(also loan translation)
(linguistics- 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。
词源1930s: from French, literally ‘copy, tracing’, from calquer ‘to trace’, via Italian from Latin calcare ‘to tread’. - ‘Traffic calming’ is a calque of the German ‘Verkehrsberuhigung’.