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a manera de prueba

English translation: to try them out

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Spanish term or phrase:	a manera de prueba
English translation:	to try them out
Entered by:	Lydia De Jorge

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17:51 Sep 14, 2007

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Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / Children's literature

Spanish term or phrase: a manera de prueba

Perhaps this one is just staring me in the face and I'm not seeing it! I can't seem to find the words to translate this phrase in the following context:

"En el acto todos corrieron, y *a manera de prueba* se colocaron sobre cada uno de los asientos".

Thanks....Bill

Bill Greendyk KudoZ activity Questions: 232 (none open) Answers: 1353 United States
Local time: 01:04

to test them out

Explanation:
needs more context..

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Note added at 6 days (2007-09-20 18:25:29 GMT) Post-grading
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Thanks Bill and good luck with the rest of the book - sounds HarryPotterish.

Selected response from:

Lydia De Jorge
United States
Local time: 01:04

Grading comment

After receiving illustrations from the book's author, I realize that the children were simply "trying out" the different chairs to see which "emotion" best suited them (as I had suspected above!). In my opinion and in all fairness, Lydia's answer comes closest to what I've chosen. Thanks everyone else for you help with this!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

3 +5

by way of a test

liz askew

4 +2

to test them out

Lydia De Jorge

4 +1

(the children) tried the chairs out by sitting on each one in turn

Deborah Lockett

4 +1

for testing purposes

Smartranslators

as a rehearsal

claudia16

to experiment

Eng2Span

as a trial

Adriana Penco

Discussion entries: 2

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11 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +5

by way of a test

Explanation:
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Note added at 13 mins (2007-09-14 18:04:26 GMT)
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/as a dare/challenge

liz askew
United Kingdom
Local time: 06:04
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 8

14 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

for testing purposes

Explanation:
Suerte

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Smartranslators
Local time: 07:04
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 84

57 mins confidence:

as a trial

Explanation:
Short & simple.

Adriana Penco
Local time: 03:04
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 12

58 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

(the children) tried the chairs out by sitting on each one in turn

Explanation:
I assume from the context that each child sat on each chair.

Deborah Lockett
Local time: 06:04
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 127

4 hrs confidence:

to experiment

Explanation:
...they all ran, and to experiment they took a place on each one of the seats...

My 2 cents. :-)

Eng2Span
United States
Local time: 01:04
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English,

Spanish

1 day13 hrs confidence:

as a rehearsal

Explanation:
x

claudia16
Local time: 06:04
Native speaker of:

English,

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 27

5 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

to test them out

Lydia De Jorge
United States
Local time: 01:04
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish,

English
PRO pts in category: 129

Grading comment

Notes to answerer

Asker: You're very intuitive indeed! The book is very "Harry Potterish!"

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Changes made by editors

Sep 20, 2007 - Changes made by Lydia De Jorge:
Edited KOG entry	Bill Greendyk's old entry - "a manera de prueba" => "to try them out"
Sep 20, 2007 - Changes made by Bill Greendyk:
Created KOG entry	KudoZ term => KOG term

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