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Tech/Engineering - Energy / Power Generation / Wind farms | | Italian term or phrase: eccelse | problems of offshore wind farms:
le caratteristiche meccaniche del fondale spesso non sono eccelse e di conseguenza le fondazioni devono essere di dimensioni maggiori
Not sure what they mean here. Thanks. |
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7 mins confidence:  sublime, superlative (feminine plural)
Explanation:
This is a matter of a commonplace bit of rhetoric which would not be made in the same way in English. In Italian, "eccelso" means "sublime, superlative," but what it is saying is that conditions are not very good, and that is how I would render the expression in English. In other words, the adjective "eccelso" itself has the meaning I said, but the sentence you quote means "conditions aren't so hot". Which, in turn, could not be literally translated in Italian.
Example sentence(s):- La qualita' della traduzione e' tutt'altro che eccelsa.
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5 mins confidence:  (not) the best
Explanation:
It's just a euphemism to say they're not very good. :)
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Note added at 9 min (2011-12-01 10:27:37 GMT)
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http://www.dizionario-online.net/sinonimi/eccelso.html
"Eccelso = (agg. Superiore per qualità) eccellente, eccezionale, eminente, grandioso, grandissimo, sommo, sublime, supremo. Contrario di eccelso:, modesto, misero, mediocre, bassissimo, scalcinato, inferiore, insignificante, imo, limitato, basso, minimo, scadente, ultimo, squallido, banale, scalcagnato, infimo, povero. "
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