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rengeteg

English translation: thickets

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Hungarian term or phrase:rengeteg (átv.)
English translation:thickets
Entered by: Tünde Lőrincz

12:43 Jul 19, 2012
Hungarian to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature
Hungarian term or phrase: rengeteg
Erdőrengetegre gondolok. Nem találok ilyen szót az angolban, csak a 'forest', 'woods' stb. szavakat, amelyeknek viszont nincs meg az a kissé rémisztő konnotációja.

"Egy vaddisznót pillantottam meg a sűrű rengetegben."

Olyan szót keresek, amit átvitt értelemben is lehet használni.

"Elveszett a hiedelmek ősi rengetegében."

Aki több mesét olvasott angolul, mint én, hiszem, tud segíteni. :) Köszönöm.
Tünde Lőrincz
Local time: 08:57
thickets
Explanation:
Csaba's is very good. This refers more explicitly to woodland.

I caught sight of a wild boar amid the thickets.
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Jim Tucker (X)
United States
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2thickets
Jim Tucker (X)
3 +2wilderness
Csaba Ban
4dense forest, dense undergrowth of the wilderness, impenetrable forest,
juvera


Discussion entries: 4





  

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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
wilderness


Explanation:
elsőre ez ugrik be

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I spotted a bore in the dense wilderness.
She was lost in the ancient wilderness of beliefs.

"lost in the wilderness of beliefs": 51 google találat

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oops.... BOAR

Csaba Ban
Hungary
Local time: 07:57
Native speaker of: Native in HungarianHungarian
Notes to answerer
Asker: Iiiigen, kösz. Bár nem perfect match (mert nem feltétlenül erdő a wilderness), de ez áll legközelebb, azt hiszem.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Katarina Peters
3 hrs
agree  Virág-Lilla Rácz: Pl. A vadon szava (Jack London) angolul The Call of the Wild, de ha átvitt értelemben is kell használni, akkor jobb a wilderness.
6 hrs
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20 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
thickets


Explanation:
Csaba's is very good. This refers more explicitly to woodland.

I caught sight of a wild boar amid the thickets.

Jim Tucker (X)
United States
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 56
Notes to answerer
Asker: Great! Yeah, you're right. I was trying to think of a word while imagining a forest of very tall trees, whereas this is also a fitting word - a place where you can easily get lost.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Ildiko Santana: Tudtam én, hogy van valami thick-kel kezdődő, csak nem ugrott be! Ez pompás. Tkp. vminek a sűrűje, de szerintem hangulatában közel áll a rengeteghez. És átvitt értelemben is használható, lásd: "But in the thickets of the law, oh, there I'm a forester." :)
35 mins
  -> That Bolt quote is worthy of Shakespeare.
agree  hollowman2
3 days 13 hrs
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1 day 48 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
dense forest, dense undergrowth of the wilderness, impenetrable forest,


Explanation:
Hátha több változatra van szükséged. :-)

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Note added at 5 days (2012-07-25 10:00:39 GMT) Post-grading
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???
"..impenetrable forest of negatives..."
hansard.millbanksystems.com/.../premium-book-subscription-service

"..find their way through an impenetrable forest of new ideas..."
www.hitmag.co.uk/oct08/pubs.02.doc

"..the impenetrable forest of masculine discourse..."
www.sheerpoetry.co.uk/general-reader/poets-on.../elizabeth-...

Psychologically, you don't have the feeling of stepping into an impenetrable forest of words, but into a comfortable text.

There are problems with this exhibition...There is so much material that we feel as if we're in danger of becoming overwhelmed in an almost impenetrable forest.

"An impenetrable forest of night..."

The poem resembles like a truncated autobiography of the trees in a dense forest , giving vent to their feelings.

The dense forest on the surface of the mind's planet, this is the area of the mind that contains ...

When your intelligence has passed out of the dense forest of ...

Through the miracle of vintage film we are lured into the dense forest of his imagination – mischievous and divine.

juvera
Local time: 06:57
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in HungarianHungarian
PRO pts in category: 28
Notes to answerer
Asker: Köszönöm, ez szó szerinti értelemben egyértelmű, de - mint írtam - átvitt értelemben lenne szükségem rá.

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