erhöhten Zuckeranteil
English translation: slightly higher sugar content
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| 21:52 Jun 18, 2003 |
| German to English translations [PRO] Science - Wine / Oenology / Viticulture / wine | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: David Moore (X) Local time: 07:19 | ||||||
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| 5 +2 | slightly higher sugar content |
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| 4 +1 | reasonably high residual sugar level |
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| 4 +1 | a little rerrangement? |
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| 5 | Its OK |
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| 4 | increased sugar content |
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9 mins confidence: 
increased sugar content Explanation: Your translation sounds good. I think "raised" seems to apply intent, or an agent, whereas it is actually just a function of the sugar content of the grape, I suppose. Either one would probably do. Any vintners out there? Making me thirsty. I'm off for a drink. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2003-06-19 15:27:54 (GMT) -------------------------------------------------- I think David got it right with \"higher\", which really is agent neutral. However, I do think that \"raised\" actually requires an agent, whereas \"increased\" does not. Taxes were raised is the same as: Taxes were increased. Both mean someone increased/raised taxes. But: There was increased activity vs. There was *raised activity??? (the * meaning in linguistics, and I hope I don\'t look like an idiot for explaining something everyone knows, that this form is not an acceptable version for native speakers). So, there is something agentive going on with raised, but not (necessarily) raised. |
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47 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1reasonably high residual sugar level Explanation: Hi Kim, we 've been making our own wine for 25 years, and I know from experience that it's the residual sugar content ("Restzucker") that makes the difference between an acceptable and an excellent wine! As a rule of thumb, the higher the percentage of alcohol, the lower the sugar content and the dryer the wine. Wine labels will sometimes indicate the percentage of residual sugar in the wine - sugar left in the wine after fermentation. Residual sugar can be less than .5% (bone dry - the threshold of detection for most people) to as much as 20% (or even more!) in a late harvest dessert wine. It seems to me that in your example, the wording "gering erhoeht"(sorry, o-umlaut still not working) is indeed odd, and that's probably what made you wonder! It should really read" geringfügig" erhoeht" and even then a reference to the regular level ("im Vergleich zu") would have been appropriate. But complaining about the source text hardly ever helps, does it? I would write: "The sparkling wine falls into the medium-dry category, but despite its reasonably high level of residual sugar it does not taste too sweet, etc..." Reference: http://www.beekmanwine.com/prevtopm.htm |
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3 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
9 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +2
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