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Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature | | German term or phrase: entschlüpfen (help with phrase) | The text discusses a man transforming into an insect (Kafka) and here I'm not sure about entschluepfen and the last bit that it has a body that it's still not bound to?
Es ist das Insekt, das sich wandelt, das zuerst nochmals seine Entwicklungsstufen über Larve und Puppe durchläuft, bis es, ausgewachsen, diesen Stadien entschlüpft, einen endgültigen Leib gewinnt, an den es aber nicht gebunden bleibt.
It is the insect that transforms itself, that first runs through its stages of development once again through larva and pupa until it is full-grown and leaves these stages behind, gaining a permanent body to which it remains not bound however. |
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| | 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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Kurt Beals
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| Grading comment I think this also gets around the "unbound to its body" bit with "even this body will continue to change" - thanks all
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29 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +1 s.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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3 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1 | entschlüpfen (help with phrase) then emerging from the egg
Explanation:
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Note added at 4 mins (2005-01-20 09:57:57 GMT)
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more likely \"larva\" than egg here
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Note added at 6 mins (2005-01-20 09:59:44 GMT)
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\"then emerging from its formative stages\"
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Note added at 3 hrs 2 mins (2005-01-20 12:56:03 GMT)
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\"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?
| Kurt Beals
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| | Grading comment | I think this also gets around the "unbound to its body" bit with "even this body will continue to change" - thanks all |
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