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Como exponente

English translation: as the prime example

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Spanish term or phrase:Como exponente
English translation:as the prime example
Entered by: broca

16:03 Dec 11, 2013
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - History
Spanish term or phrase: Como exponente
"...entrando en el debate sobre su ubicación y sobre el papel que las oligarquías locales de Gades, con los Balbo como exponente, jugaron en este proceso"
As exponent
As a case in point
As an example
As representative
as a model
broca
Local time: 16:47
as the prime example
Explanation:
As you say, "exponente" means "prototipo, persona o cosa representativa de lo más característico en un género". I think "prime example" expresses this suitably in the context you've given. Not "an example" or "a case in point" alone, because that misses the sense of being the most representative example. "As exponent" doesn't work at all; it means something different, and "representative" and "model" are not quite right in context
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Charles Davis
Spain
Local time: 16:47
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Summary of answers provided
4 +4as the prime example
Charles Davis
5as a case in point
Maria-Ines Arratia
4as the quintessential example/ ALT: as the (very) archetype
Pablo Julián Davis


  

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14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
como exponente
as a case in point


Explanation:
Las otras opciones hacen sentido, pero ésta forma de decirlo suena mejor en inglés... Suerte!... :)

Maria-Ines Arratia
Spain
Local time: 16:47
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
Notes to answerer
Asker: Gracias. Pero mira lo que dice el DRAE: 2. m. prototipo (‖ persona o cosa representativa de lo más característico en un género).

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58 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
as the prime example


Explanation:
As you say, "exponente" means "prototipo, persona o cosa representativa de lo más característico en un género". I think "prime example" expresses this suitably in the context you've given. Not "an example" or "a case in point" alone, because that misses the sense of being the most representative example. "As exponent" doesn't work at all; it means something different, and "representative" and "model" are not quite right in context

Charles Davis
Spain
Local time: 16:47
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 312
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agree  Jenni Lukac (X)
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agree  David Ronder
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agree  Phoenix III
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
as the quintessential example/ ALT: as the (very) archetype


Explanation:
In English, the Latinate form of the family name Balbo is used: Balbus.

"F Campante - ‎2009. ... the quintessential example of an industrialist who moved his mechanical reaper .... interests against the extension"

"Today, ... Koc is the quintessential example of a top representative of a national oligarchy who is deeply integrated with the global ..." andrewgavinmarshall.com/.../turkeys-urban-uprising-the-struggle-for-de...‎

"...Romney, a presidential candidate on a major party ticket, is now the quintessential embodiment of the businessman-politician." http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/23/1094100/-Why-you-mu...

Plato's Treatment of Callicles in the 'Gorgias'... "According to one view Callicles is seen as the very archetype of the tyrant and the oligarch..." journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0068673500001462‎

The Operator. "In pictures, he appears the very archetype of the shadowy billionaire, .... plantation gentry..." www.newrepublic.com/.../harold-simmons-campaign-donor-2012-...‎

"...entrando en el debate sobre su ubicación y sobre el papel que las oligarquías locales de Gades, con los Balbo como exponente, jugaron en este proceso"

Example sentence(s):
  • "...the debate ... on the role that the local oligarchy of Gades [ancient Cádiz], with the Balbus family as the quintessential example, played in this process..."
Pablo Julián Davis
Local time: 09:47
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
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