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Comer si comimos, comimos un montón de cosas venenosas

English translation: Eat, we surely did, a whole bunch of artery-clogging stuff with megacalories...

21:29 Nov 7, 2003
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
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Spanish term or phrase: Comer si comimos, comimos un montón de cosas venenosas
La velada fue un desastre. Comer sí comimos, comimos un montón de cosas venenosas, cientos de miles de calorías. Beber, si bebimos, pero nos dio triste, una borrachera llorona y triste.
jemad
Spain
Local time: 22:19
English translation:Eat, we surely did, a whole bunch of artery-clogging stuff with megacalories...
Explanation:
Eat, we surely did, a whole bunch of artery-clogging stuff loaded with megacalories. Drink, we did too, but it wasn´t a happy buzz. We just got the blues, a teary-eyed, sad drunkenness.

Bom apetit
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George Rabel
Local time: 16:19
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Summary of answers provided
4 +7Eat, we surely did, a whole bunch of artery-clogging stuff with megacalories...
George Rabel
5 +2We ate allright, we ate a bunch of poison food....
David Russi
5 +2Yes, we did eat, we ate a bunch of really bad, high-calorie stuff.
Jane Lamb-Ruiz (X)
5Eat we did!
cebice
5We ate, oh yes, we ate loads of junk food, packed with calories.
Kitti Moonli (X)
5 -4eat yes we ated, we ated a lot of poisonous things
Adda Velez


  

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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): -4
eat yes we ated, we ated a lot of poisonous things


Explanation:
:D

Adda Velez
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in pair: 28

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Ivannia Garcia: ate is the past form of eat, not ated
2 mins
disagree  Nikki Graham: Please! It's eat - ate - eaten.
47 mins
disagree  Cecilia Della Croce: !!??
1 hr
disagree  margaret caulfield: for same reasons as above. This is basic grammar.
2 days 1 hr
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
We ate allright, we ate a bunch of poison food....


Explanation:
hundreds of thousands of calories.

I used poison on purpose, the food is poison, not poisoned.

David Russi
United States
Local time: 14:19
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in pair: 5305

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Ivannia Garcia: great!
1 min
agree  Cecilia Della Croce: good one! The only thing is that I wouldn't use "food", but rather "things" as in the expression chosen in Spanish
1 hr
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
Eat we did!


Explanation:
The party was a bust. Eat we did! we ate a lot of unhealthy foods with a ton of calories. Drink we did! But it made us sad...a weeping, "feeling sorry for yourself" kind of drunken bend.

cebice
United States
Local time: 15:19
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in pair: 143
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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +7
Comer si comimos, comimos un montón de cosas venenosas
Eat, we surely did, a whole bunch of artery-clogging stuff with megacalories...


Explanation:
Eat, we surely did, a whole bunch of artery-clogging stuff loaded with megacalories. Drink, we did too, but it wasn´t a happy buzz. We just got the blues, a teary-eyed, sad drunkenness.

Bom apetit

George Rabel
Local time: 16:19
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in pair: 1608
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Parrot: poisonous food is far too strong in native English
7 mins
  -> thanks, I agree with your agreement
agree  Patricia Fierro, M. Sc.
10 mins
  -> me too
agree  brendaskye: I like it!
1 hr
  -> thanks
agree  M- B-: Nice one! Very natural.
9 hrs
  -> Thanks Meg
agree  Kitti Moonli (X): Suitable phrasing for US English, not UK
10 hrs
  -> Thank you, mate. "We got bloody pissed..., etc"
agree  luciasan
12 hrs
  -> gracias
agree  margaret caulfield
2 days 1 hr
  -> thanks
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10 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
Comer si comimos, comimos un montón de cosas venenosas
We ate, oh yes, we ate loads of junk food, packed with calories.


Explanation:
The evening was a disaster. We ate, oh yes, we ate loads of junk food, packed with calories. We drank, oh yes, we drank but that made us miserable: it was a sad and tearful kind of drunken state/drunkenness.

Kitti Moonli (X)
Local time: 22:19
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 16
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23 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
Yes, we did eat, we ate a bunch of really bad, high-calorie stuff.


Explanation:
style and tone of the original

Jane Lamb-Ruiz (X)
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in pair: 7709

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Daniel Burns (X): I like "stuff" rather than "things".
23 mins
agree  Fanny_C
20 hrs
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