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resquebrajado

English translation: cracked

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Spanish term or phrase:resquebrajado
English translation:cracked
Entered by: cw010 (X)

11:03 Sep 4, 2006
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - History / Americas/ Nicaragua
Spanish term or phrase: resquebrajado
This is a text talking about a description of volcano scoria made by Oviedo y Valdez (1529).

Notable es la descripción que hace de la textura de las escorias “… resquebrajados como suele hacerlo el pan que comemos…” haciendo sin duda referencia a la textura en corteza de pan.
tangotrans
Local time: 07:29
cracked
Explanation:
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cw010 (X)
Local time: 00:29
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4 +4cracked
cw010 (X)
4cracked and broken
Matilda McIntosh
2broken
Ronnie McKee


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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
cracked


Explanation:
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cw010 (X)
Local time: 00:29
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Cheers

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Mónica Ameztoy de Andrada
0 min
agree  Edward Tully
31 mins
agree  Sergio Gaymer
2 hrs
agree  Barbara Cochran, MFA
8 hrs
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51 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
broken


Explanation:
If they are relating this to bread, maybe its more natural to say broken than cracked

Ronnie McKee
Spain
Local time: 08:29
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 12
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
cracked and broken


Explanation:
This very discriptive spanish word seems to need more than just one word in English to me...
It means broken but not in a clean cut way, in a more irregular way that for this text could be best translated using both words...

Matilda McIntosh
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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