Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

interpretaciones a cuál más fantástica.

English translation:

the most fantastic interpretations

Added to glossary by liz askew
May 10, 2011 15:50
13 yrs ago
Spanish term

interpretaciones a cuál más fantástica.

Spanish to English Science Biology (-tech,-chem,micro-) I'm having problems to come up with a translation for this phrase
Los naturalistas y filósofos de la antigüedad no comprendieron correctamente la verdadera naturalezade los fósiles y dieron de ellos interpretaciones a cuál más fantástica.
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May 17, 2011 14:05: liz askew Created KOG entry

Proposed translations

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the most fantastic interpretations

Peer comment(s):

agree Cecilia Rey
1 min
Gracias y saludos!
agree philgoddard
11 mins
Thank you!
agree Jorge Arteaga M.D.
19 mins
Gracias y saludos Dr.!
agree Neil Ashby : "of which they made...." sounds more natural than the "of them" ending.
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
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(arrived at) very fanciful/utterly fantastic interpretations of them

We are very familiar with coal, which is composed largely of fossilised plant ... objects that were to be found in rocks, and many very fanciful ideas. ... Scientists who studied the fossil record (palaeontologists) in Darwin's day were..www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/.../fossilsandfossilisation/..... better represented in the fossil record than those that are soft-bodied. ... and very difficult to classify (Bandel and Leich, 1986; ..... Although perhaps a fanciful explanation of how the Argonaut got its shell (see ...
grizzlie.erin.utoronto.ca/~w3bio/bio443/.../divergence_time_estimates.pdf
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Spanish term (edited): interpretaciones a cuál más fantástica.

ever more bizarre interpretations of them.

My take on it.
Example sentence:

Los naturalistas y filósofos de la antigüedad no comprendieron correctamente la verdadera naturalezade los fósiles y dieron de ellos <u>interpretaciones a cuál más fantástica</u>.

Naturalists and philosophers from the Ancient World did not understand the true nature of fossils correctly and dreamt up/concocted <u>ever more bizarre interpretations of them</u>.

Peer comment(s):

agree Lourdes Sanchez : right I was out of context AGREE :)
3 mins
Thanks, Lourdes. Although, I'm not sure why you suggested adding 'to'?
agree Dr. Andrew Frankland
9 mins
Thank you, Andrew.
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3 days 13 hrs

imaginary interpretations

I don't think it's intended to be terribly dramatic, simply that they didn't have the data to be fully accurate.
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meaning

I hope this helps:

Los científicos les dieron distintas interpretaciones a los fósiles, una interpretación más fantástica que la otra.
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