Astro Rey

English translation: King of the Sky

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Spanish term or phrase:	Astro Rey
English translation:	King of the Sky
Entered by:	Jason Willis-Lee

15:37 Jan 23, 2008

Spanish to English translations [PRO]
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Spanish term or phrase: Astro Rey

Book on child astronomy....section dealing with the sun.

En su parte externa, la temperatura puede alcanzar los 6.000 grados centígrados, pero en el interior es muchísimo más alta.

La energía del sol procede de reacciones nucleares en las que el hidrógeno se transforma en helio. ¿Se le acabará el combustible al Sol para seguir dándonos luz y calor? ¡No hay que preocuparse! Le queda hidrógeno para unos 5.000 millones de años más.

Desde hace miles de años, sabemos que la vida en la Tierra depende del Sol, al que también se le ha llamado el **Astro Rey**. ¡Y es que manda mucho!

Jason Willis-Lee KudoZ activity Questions: 1150 (1 open) (2 without valid answers) (30 closed without grading) Answers: 114 Spain
Local time: 23:06

Astral King/King of the Sky

Explanation:
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Colombia carnival- [ Traduzca esta página ]... they also worshipped the sun, invocating by using feline features, specially the jaguar, a sacred animal that symbolized the astral king. ...
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Edward Tully
Local time: 23:06

Grading comment

Thanks Edward
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Summary of answers provided

4 +4

Astral King/King of the Sky

Edward Tully

5 +1

The Sun

psicutrinius

5 +1

King of all stars

slothm

Sol

David Russi

Regal Star / Royal Star

Sandra Rodriguez

3 +1

The biggest star?

María Teresa Taylor Oliver

Discussion entries: 3

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4 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

The Sun

Explanation:
That "El astro rey" is a poetic name for the sun

psicutrinius
Spain
Local time: 23:06
Native speaker of:

Spanish

26 mins confidence:

Sol

Explanation:
Capitalized, alternative proper name for the Sun in English

David Russi
United States
Local time: 15:06
Native speaker of:

English,

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 64

10 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

The biggest star?

Explanation:
I haven't heard of the Sun being referred to in English as "the kingly star" or something of the sort, which would be an approximation to "el Astro Rey" (which is very common in Spanish, by the way).

Creo que sería muy rebuscado traducirlo así.

But you could call it something like "the biggest star" (in our galaxy, at least).

You could also get some ideas from this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun#Solar_cultural_history
Like other natural phenomena, the Sun has been an object of veneration in many cultures throughout human history. Sol (pronounced /sɒl/ in English) is the Latin word for "sun". The Latin name is widely known, but not common in general English language usage, although the adjectival form is the related word solar. 'Sol' is more frequently used in science fiction writing (Star Trek in particular) as a formal name for the specific star, since in many stories the local sun is a different star and thus the generic term "the sun" would be ambiguous. By extension, the Solar System is often referred to in science fiction as the "Sol System". 'Sol' is sometimes used in scientific circles, but 'Sol' is not the "official" name of the Sun, and the word 'Sol' makes no appearances in common reference sources.[64]

Hope that helps!

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Note added at 13 mins (2008-01-23 15:51:03 GMT)
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What I meant is that, in Spanish, "el Astro Rey" is very common and anyone understands it. But you'd have to change the register in English, or otherwise scratch that whole sentence entirely! I don't think it adds any info anyway. Although it leads to the phrase immediately after that: "y es que manda mucho" (as a **king** would do).

Could you eliminate that part or do you really have to keep it?

What about "the ruling star (in our galaxy)"?

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Note added at 27 mins (2008-01-23 16:05:01 GMT)
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Actually, Googling around, I found out that there's another star called Regulus, which has been called, indeed, "the kingly star" or the "Royal Star", which is the brightest star in the constellation Leo. Maybe you could use one of these...

María Teresa Taylor Oliver
Panama
Local time: 16:06
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 20

34 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

Astral King/King of the Sky

Edward Tully
Local time: 23:06
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 152

Grading comment

Thanks Edward

44 mins confidence:

Regal Star / Royal Star

Explanation:
Aparte del uso metafórico, en los estudios esotéricos de la India existe toda una categoría de “Raja Suns”, sobre los que pueden leer en la Carta 23 en The Mahatma Letters, publicado por Adyar.

Sandra Rodriguez
Puerto Rico
Local time: 17:06
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 12

45 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

King of all stars

Explanation:
Jason needs a way out. I agree with psicutrinius, juan jacob and maria teresa, Jason has to find an equivalent expression for Astro Rey or completelly obliterate the frase. It looks like a general level paper and no harm would then be made. However the author may insist in conveying the idea behind Astro Rey. In that case choose between "The biggest star" or "King of all stars" or any other variation in line with "Astro rey".

slothm
Local time: 18:06
Native speaker of: Spanish

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