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14:05 Mar 3, 2002 |
Finnish to English translations [PRO] Science / Geography, etnicity, religious foment and rebellion | |||||||
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5 +2 | distance, stretch |
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5 | The anchor shaped island nation covers, within 5000 kilometers, 6000 inhabited islands. |
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The anchor shaped island nation covers, within 5000 kilometers, 6000 inhabited islands. Explanation: You are right. Literal, word by word translation from Finnish into English sometimes results in something that does not make any sense. On has to, however, understand the context before it can be correctly translated. |
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distance, stretch Explanation: It is not surprising: the anchor-shaped island state of Indonesia covers a 5,000 km stretch of 6,000 inhabited islands, whose population of 225 million people is divided not just by religion and ethnic origin but by huge expanses of water. www.finnishtrans.com -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2002-03-04 15:18:34 (GMT) Post-grading -------------------------------------------------- The term entered in the glossary needs to be in the root form \"matka\" |
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