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fruta de una selección de los fondos de museo

English translation: The museum displays a large selection of Spanish art - carefully selected from its own collection.

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Spanish term or phrase:	fruta de una selección de los fondos de museo
English translation:	The museum displays a large selection of Spanish art - carefully selected from its own collection.
Entered by:	Poughkeepsie

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16:59 Sep 7, 2007

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Social Sciences - Tourism & Travel / Museum profile

Spanish term or phrase: fruta de una selección de los fondos de museo

¿Alguien me puede sugerir una traducción para "fruta de una selección de los fondos de museo"?

El texto dice: Posee una importante colección de arte español, fruta de una selección de los fondos de museo: pinturas, dibujos...

Gracias.

Poughkeepsie

The museum displays a large selection of Spanish art - carefully selected from its own collection.

Explanation:
Hope this helps

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John Rawlins
Spain
Local time: 10:01

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Great trans, thanks for your help!
3 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +5

The museum displays a large selection of Spanish art - carefully selected from its own collection.

John Rawlins

english

flopy

just some of the works selected from the museum collection...

Liz Slaney

the result of selecting from museum deposits

Carol Gullidge

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10 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +5

The museum displays a large selection of Spanish art - carefully selected from its own collection.

Explanation:
Hope this helps

John Rawlins
Spain
Local time: 10:01
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 22

Grading comment

Great trans, thanks for your help!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

Carol Gullidge: this is probably more like it...///not sure about that! I've just relaunched my answer as somebody kindly gave it an agree - this time with a lower confidence level

2 mins

-> Carol - you should add 'noble' to your CV! :)

agree

Noni Gilbert: yup - the only query is on displays for posee

4 mins

-> Yes, that it is quite true. Thanks Noni!

agree

Elizabeth Joy Pitt de Morales: Very neat!

5 mins

-> Thank you very much Elizabeth!

agree

Deborah Lockett

25 mins

-> Thank you Deborah!

neutral

Liz Slaney: Not sure about repetition of "selection" and "selected".

58 mins

-> I take your point, but selections are selected from somewhere.

agree

AllegroTrans: you could use "chosen" for "selected"

1 hr

-> Yes, Allegro, you are right - as almost always! Thanks!

17 mins confidence:

the result of selecting from museum deposits

Explanation:
the result of selecting from museum deposits

ie, they took their pick from the pictures, etc, languishing in the museum deposits - they weren't on display

that's how I interpret this
----

I've UNHIDDEN this, as hiding it seemed rather churlish to the person who kindly gave it an agree (thanks to Marga!)

Carol Gullidge
United Kingdom
Local time: 09:01
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 168

21 mins confidence:

english

Explanation:
I has an important Spanish art collection, as a result of the museum’s selection of: paintings, drawings……

flopy
Local time: 05:01
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish

1 hr confidence:

just some of the works selected from the museum collection...

Explanation:
See whole sentence below. To avoid using "selection" and "selected".

Example sentence(s):

It has a large assortment of Spanish art, just some of the works selected from the museum collection, paintings, drawings, etc.

Liz Slaney
Local time: 04:01
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English

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fruta de una selección de los fondos de museo

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