entschlüpfen (help with phrase)
English translation: emerge/hatch
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| 09:53 Jan 20, 2005 |
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|  Selected response from: Kurt Beals United States Local time: 09:51 | ||||
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| 4 +1 | s.u. |
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| 2 +1 | then emerging from the egg |
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| 3 | emerge |
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peer agreement (net): +1s.u. Explanation: it is the insect that transforms itself by undergoing the initial stages of its development, i.e. larva and pupa, until -fully grown - it finally hatches from these stages into a body (or emerges from.... as..)to which it remains not bound, however. permanent body sounds a bit strange and it can't be permanent if it does not remain bound to it in any event. |
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peer agreement (net): +1| entschlüpfen (help with phrase) then emerging from the egg Explanation: ?? -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 4 mins (2005-01-20 09:57:57 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- more likely \"larva\" than egg here -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 6 mins (2005-01-20 09:59:44 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- \"then emerging from its formative stages\" -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 3 hrs 2 mins (2005-01-20 12:56:03 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- \"emerging from metamorphis\" |
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7 hrs confidence:
| entschlüpfen (help with phrase) emerge Explanation: ...passes through the larval and pupal stages before finally emerging as a full-grown adult, though even this mature body will continue to change. I think emerge (also in the answers above) is probably one of the best possibilities - it works both physically (emerging from the cocoon) and figuratively, whereas "hatch", for instance, doesn't. Not sure about the end, though - maybe from the context you can tell in what sense it isn't "bound" to its adult body? Is there an exoskeleton that it sheds periodically? |
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