Sep 20, 2017 08:47
6 yrs ago
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English term
Germany
relative to its curvature.
English to German
Art/Literary
Poetry & Literature
SF
Another SF novel.
Explanation: a star is surrounded by a kind of geodesic sphere, a kind of web, but the sphere is not complete, a piece is missing. The star's light is mostly obscured, light can only escape through the gap.
The whole construction is seen from a spaceship and as a hologram.
Text: The web's orbit had brought the hole into direct opposition with the ship, The dazzling glare had prevented him (the captain) from making out the gap's borders, but the illustration (the hologram) defined them clearly. Three AUs tall and half an AU wide, relative to its curvature, it looked so small to the rest of the structure - though he knew the distances to be daunting.
My problem is 'relative to its curvature'. Does it mean, a piece of the sphere's surface is measured on the sphere, or is it taken out, flattened and measured in two dimensions?
I can only hope I've made this clear enough.
Explanation: a star is surrounded by a kind of geodesic sphere, a kind of web, but the sphere is not complete, a piece is missing. The star's light is mostly obscured, light can only escape through the gap.
The whole construction is seen from a spaceship and as a hologram.
Text: The web's orbit had brought the hole into direct opposition with the ship, The dazzling glare had prevented him (the captain) from making out the gap's borders, but the illustration (the hologram) defined them clearly. Three AUs tall and half an AU wide, relative to its curvature, it looked so small to the rest of the structure - though he knew the distances to be daunting.
My problem is 'relative to its curvature'. Does it mean, a piece of the sphere's surface is measured on the sphere, or is it taken out, flattened and measured in two dimensions?
I can only hope I've made this clear enough.
Proposed translations
(German)
| 3 | in Bezug auf ihre Wölbung |
Lioba Multer
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Proposed translations
175 days
Lioba Multer
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Native in: German 
Works in: English to German, German to English
in Bezug auf ihre Wölbung
"Mit einer Höhe dreier astronomischer Einheiten und eine halbe astronomische Einheit weit sah sie [die Öffnung; L.M.] in Bezug auf ihre Wölbung verglichen mit der übrigen Struktur klein aus – obwohl er sich der erschreckenden Distanz der Entfernungen gewahr war."
Example sentence:
Mit einer Höhe dreier astronomischer Einheiten und eine halbe astronomische Einheit weit sah sie [die Öffnung; L.M.] in Bezug auf ihre Wölbung verglichen mit der übrigen Struktur klein aus – obwohl er sich der erschreckenden Distanz der Entfernungen
Discussion
If I say 'unter Berücksichtigung der Krümmung', would that be appropriate and understandable?
@Anne: AUs sind astronomical units - astronomische Einheiten.