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English translation: impression/snapshot of the age/era

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Hungarian term or phrase:	korlenyomat
English translation:	impression/snapshot of the age/era
Entered by:	Michael Golden

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15:12 Feb 4, 2009

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Tech/Engineering - Architecture / Interior Design

Hungarian term or phrase: korlenyomat

From the same article on interior design: "Fontos, hogy a külső építészeti jegyek és a belső kialakítás összhangban legyenek. Egy ma épülő irodaháznak egyfajta „korlenyomatnak” kell lennie, ami meghatározza a berendezést, az anyagválasztást és térelosztást is."
My guess would be "impression of the age", but I'm not sure that I'm interpreting this term correctly.

Michael Golden KudoZ activity Questions: 32 (none open) Answers: 106
Local time: 22:30

impression/snapshot of the age/era

Explanation:
I think they mean that the building should reflect, represent the time (age, era) when it was built. You may use "gives an impression of the age". You may also want to consider "snapshot of the age".

Selected response from:

Katalin Horvath McClure
United States
Local time: 22:30

Grading comment

All of the suggestions were excellent, but in order to be consistent with the register of the rest of the article, I chose "gives an impression of the age".
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +4

imprint of the age

Jim Tucker

5 +1

reflection of the era (it represents)

JANOS SAMU

4 +2

(mirror the ) zeitgeist

kyanzes

4 +2

impression/snapshot of the age/era

Katalin Horvath McClure

Discussion entries: 4

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10 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

impression/snapshot of the age/era

Katalin Horvath McClure
United States
Local time: 22:30
Native speaker of:

Hungarian
PRO pts in category: 16

Grading comment

All of the suggestions were excellent, but in order to be consistent with the register of the rest of the article, I chose "gives an impression of the age".

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

(mirror the ) zeitgeist

Explanation:

My take.

"The most immediate way in which Timberline Lodge and Jekyll Island channel zeitgeist is via architectural style. "

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA05/burnette/spring_project/sig...

"Traditionally, every era has manifested a unitary organizational strategy called a zeitgeist, or spirit of the times. Architecture has always had the capacity to both mirror and be driven by the zeitgeist...

http://www.tu-cottbus.de/theo/Wolke/eng/Subjects/991/Neis/ne...

http://www.ready-for-take-off.net/de/download/magazines/2007...

http://www.mke.hu/english/course_e.php?mid=14978d1c615417

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Watkin_(historian)

kyanzes
Local time: 04:30
Native speaker of: Hungarian
PRO pts in category: 3

3 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

imprint of the age

Explanation:
The author is coining a term, as evidenced by "egyfajta" - an analogy with "újjlenyomat." You could be cute and do "a sort of ageprint" (as Péter also suggests above), but this would be distracting and provide little traction for all the trouble. Better just to reach for something that English already has at its disposal: "An office building constructed today must bear the imprint of the age..."

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Note added at 3 hrs (2009-02-04 18:23:36 GMT)
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(Naturally, it goes without saying that you should then discard "egyfajta" in translation.)

Jim Tucker
United States
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 8

5 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

reflection of the era (it represents)

Explanation:
I would prefer to use reflection instead of impression, especially because of the ambiguous meaning of the latter. Reflection is more expressive, because it is automatic. Everything has a reflection, but impression has to be induced. This is the preference of the English-thinking part of my brain.

Example sentence(s):

Rarity and demand are key bases of value, and the rest is about the innate charm of the car, and its reflection of the era it represents.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antique_car
Reference: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEED9113DF...

JANOS SAMU
United States
Local time: 16:30
Native speaker of:

Hungarian
PRO pts in category: 16

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