Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
fue usina continua de ideas
English translation:
he was an endless generator of ideas / a non-stop ideas factory
Added to glossary by
Rita Tepper
Apr 1, 2008 01:53
16 yrs ago
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Spanish term
fue usina continua de ideas
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Visionario y pionero, inquieto, incansable y tenaz, estudioso, de inteligencia superior con raro fenómeno de energía intelectual, **fue usina continua de ideas**, trabajos y logros hilados con la coherencia de un fino estratega.
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he was an endless generator of ideas / a non-stop ideas factory
Una usina es una fábrica, por lo que la traducción más exacta es “factory”. Sin embargo, creo que la imagen del generador de ideas podría ser más adecuada en este contexto.
generator
1.a machine that converts one form of energy into another, esp. mechanical energy into electrical energy, as a dynamo, or electrical energy into sound, as an acoustic generator.
2.a person or thing that generates.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/generator
generator
1.a machine that converts one form of energy into another, esp. mechanical energy into electrical energy, as a dynamo, or electrical energy into sound, as an acoustic generator.
2.a person or thing that generates.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/generator
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Henry Hinds
United States
United States
Native in Spanish
&
English
Works in field
United States
43 years of Border Experience and fast.
Native in: English 
, Spanish
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English
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76
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unstoppable thinking machine
Otra idea.
2 hrs
Jessica Noyes
United States
United States
Native in English
Works in field
United States
Expect excellent English
Native in: English (Variants: Canadian, US) 
Works in: Spanish to English, French to English, English
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4
He was a non-stop workshop, creating ideas...
A workshop is a small one-person factory.
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Gad Kohenov
Israel
Israel
Works in field
Israel
30 years of experience+satisfied clients
Native in: French , Hebrew
Works in: English to Hebrew, Hebrew to English, French to Hebrew, and 8 more.
An inexhaustible source of ideas
This is what it means.
5 hrs
he churned out ideas like a machine
he would churn put ideas like a (sausage) machine
he would churn out ideas in a never-ending stream
ideas flowed out of him like water
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Note added at 5 hrs (2008-04-01 07:42:17 GMT)
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HE WOULD FIRE OUT IDEAS ... LIKE A MACHINE GUN
he would churn out ideas in a never-ending stream
ideas flowed out of him like water
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Note added at 5 hrs (2008-04-01 07:42:17 GMT)
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HE WOULD FIRE OUT IDEAS ... LIKE A MACHINE GUN
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Carol Gullidge
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Native in English
United Kingdom
poetically precise prose with... panache
Native in: English
Works in: French to English, Spanish to English, English
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he was a mine of ideas
he was a rich mine of ideas
he was a goldmine of ideas
he possessed an unending/endless mine of ideas
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the expression commonly used is "a mine of information", but the idea seems to work here as well
The Cinema of Isolation: A History of Physical Disability in the ... - Google Books Result
by Martin F. Norden - 1994 - Performing Arts - 384 pages
"She had more muscle than most women in Hollywood," said Gloria Swanson, "because she was a gold mine of ideas — ideas that could become stories that could ...
books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0813521041...
Doeblin biography
Here his mine of ideas and techniques is still being explored. ... In Doeblin's mine of ideas, the coupling method was paid attention to by very few until ...
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Doeblin.html - 18k - Cached - Similar pages
The Family in the Western World from the Black Death to the ... - Google Books Result
by Beatrice Gottlieb - 1993 - History - 352 pages
Rather, he is a mine of ideas, all presented with emotional coloring — exactly what we are looking for. There is another class of writing, less enjoyable to ...
books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=019509056X...
he was a goldmine of ideas
he possessed an unending/endless mine of ideas
-----
the expression commonly used is "a mine of information", but the idea seems to work here as well
The Cinema of Isolation: A History of Physical Disability in the ... - Google Books Result
by Martin F. Norden - 1994 - Performing Arts - 384 pages
"She had more muscle than most women in Hollywood," said Gloria Swanson, "because she was a gold mine of ideas — ideas that could become stories that could ...
books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0813521041...
Doeblin biography
Here his mine of ideas and techniques is still being explored. ... In Doeblin's mine of ideas, the coupling method was paid attention to by very few until ...
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Doeblin.html - 18k - Cached - Similar pages
The Family in the Western World from the Black Death to the ... - Google Books Result
by Beatrice Gottlieb - 1993 - History - 352 pages
Rather, he is a mine of ideas, all presented with emotional coloring — exactly what we are looking for. There is another class of writing, less enjoyable to ...
books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=019509056X...
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