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fair sprinkling of water

English translation: a modest number of water hazards

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English term or phrase:	fair sprinkling of water
English translation:	a modest number of water hazards
Entered by:	Shirley Chen

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08:47 Nov 19, 2009

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Tourism & Travel / Golf course

English term or phrase: fair sprinkling of water

Elevated greens,....plus a fair sprinkling of water and woods make this course distinctive.

When "fair" combines with "sprinkling of water", what does it mean?

Shirley Chen KudoZ activity Questions: 13 (none open) (1 without valid answers) Answers: 342 United States
Local time: 18:00

a modest number of water hazards

Explanation:
presumably the text is about a golf course and this is a description of it:
fairways, greens, roughs, woods, sand traps and water hazards

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Note added at 3 days6 hrs (2009-11-22 15:37:01 GMT) Post-grading
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Thanks, Shirley

Selected response from:

Goldcoaster
Switzerland
Local time: 01:00

Grading comment

Thank you very much, Goldcoaster, for your answer and also for pointing out it's about water hazards.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

3 +5

a modest number of water hazards

Goldcoaster

5 +3

quite a large amount of water

Sheila Wilson

4 +1

reasonable amount of water hazards and woods

Wil Hardman

a perfect/ideal sprinkling of water

Joyce A

moderate amount of sprinkling water

Yasutomo Kanazawa

quite a lot of water dotted around

Jeux de Mots

Answers

6 mins confidence:

moderate amount of sprinkling water

Explanation:
fair here means a moderate amount or quite a satisfactory amount; not too less, nor not too much.

Yasutomo Kanazawa
Local time: 09:00
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Japanese
PRO pts in category: 4

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thank you very much, Yusutomo, for the answer. I think your definition for "fair" is correct too.

2 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

quite a large amount of water

Explanation:
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Note added at 6 mins (2009-11-19 08:53:18 GMT)
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sprinkling of water is used figuratively to describe a quantity of water; sit evokes the idea that someone has watered the golf course with water over a long period and the lowest areas have filled with water.

fair (in this context) = quite; reasonably

In other words, it's a favourable comment about the golf course, which has more water than some courses.

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Note added at 9 mins (2009-11-19 08:56:17 GMT)
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sorry, for reasonablY read reasonablE. As Yasutomo says, moderate is another synonym

Sheila Wilson
France
Local time: 01:00
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 12

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thank you very much, Sheila, for helping find the definition of "fair". I really appreciate it.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

kmtext: It sounds like there are a lot of small ponds around the course.

1 min

-> Thanks - yes, probably half filled with little white balls

agree

Vicky Nash

13 mins

-> Thanks

agree

Bashiqa

1 hr

-> Thanks

neutral

juvera: Not because they happened to be filled with water due to overwatering. In that case first of all the bunkers would be filled with water. / Figurative explanation may not help... "Dotted with water hazards" or something like that would be more evocative

2 hrs

-> Treu, if it had literally been watered. I did say it was figurative, though :-) // You could indeed say that - it's a pity the source document didn't, really!

agree

Andy Watkinson

4 hrs

-> Thanks

disagree

Cilian O'Tuama: you wouldn't say a golf course has "a large amount of water"

6 hrs

-> Quite probably not, Cilian - however I was simply paraphrasing to answer the asker's question about fair + sprinkling of water. It is NOT meant to be a translation, more a definition

31 mins confidence:

a perfect/ideal sprinkling of water

Explanation:
"Fair" usually means somewhere right in the middle.

In this case the sprinkling of water would not be excessive/extreme and not too sparse/little since both would not benefit the grass.

It's probably "just right"or "just perfect" or "ideal" for the purposes of getting the golf greens as green as green can be.

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Note added at 1 hr (2009-11-19 09:51:17 GMT)
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A perfect/ideal sprinkling of water and woods.... (since water itself is not being sprinkled)...

Joyce A
Thailand
Local time: 07:00
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 12

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thank you, Joyce, for your answer.

4 hrs confidence:

quite a lot of water dotted around

Explanation:
I think it is important to convey the notion of 'sprinkling' here - the water (hazards) being sprinkled over or dotted around the course. (Fair, in this instance, meaning quite a lot)

Jeux de Mots
Germany
Local time: 01:00
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 20

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thank you, Jeux_de_Mots, for your answer.

5 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

reasonable amount of water hazards and woods

Explanation:
this above is the paraphrased meaning... Also perhaps the adjectives liberal or ample better convey what I think the intended meaning is. Cmwilliams has already pointed this out...

Wil Hardman
Mexico
Local time: 00:00
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thank you, Wil. Your answer is correct too.

56 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +5

a modest number of water hazards

Goldcoaster
Switzerland
Local time: 01:00
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English,

German
PRO pts in category: 8

Grading comment

Thank you very much, Goldcoaster, for your answer and also for pointing out it's about water hazards.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

cmwilliams: yes, there's a reasonable amount of water hazards and woods

12 mins

-> Thanks, cm

agree

juvera: The best word to decribe it is given by cmwilliams: reasonable amount, but definitely water hazard, created or left there deliberately when the course was built

1 hr

-> Thanks, juvera

agree

Robert Kleemaier

4 hrs

-> Thanks, Robert

agree

Samantha Payn: with cmwilliams

4 hrs

-> Thanks, Samantha

neutral

Wil Hardman: you're right about the water reference but modest downplays it IMO

4 hrs

-> "moderate" may be more to the point

agree

Maria Fokin: with cmwilliams

5 hrs

-> Thanks, Maria

neutral

Cilian O'Tuama: don't agree with "modest", but quite a number of o. quite a few water hazards

5 hrs

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