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phenomena of the heavenly bodies

English translation: extraordinary and unique events of the celestial bodies

03:50 Dec 7, 2009
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature
English term or phrase: phenomena of the heavenly bodies
There��for with your leave, my sister, I will put some trust in preceding navigators��there snow and frost are banished; and, sailing over a calm sea, we may be wafted to a land surpassing in wonders and in beauty every region hitherto discovered on the habitable globe. Its productions and features may be without example, as the phenomena of the heavenly bodies undoubtedly are in those undiscovered solitudes.
Shirley Fan
Local time: 11:20
Selected answer:extraordinary and unique events of the celestial bodies
Explanation:
In this case, I tend to think that "phenomena" means remarkable occurrences or events.
Meteors and planets collide. Stars explode. There are so many outstanding, extraordinary, and mysterious occurrences happening in the heavens.

- Your example sentences say: "we may be wafted to a land surpassing in wonders and in beauty every region hitherto discovered on the habitable globe."
- Followed by: Its productions and features may be without example, as the phenomena of the heavenly bodies undoubtedly are in those undiscovered solitudes.

So, what they discover will be something extraordinary, surpassing and unique.
What is discovered will be unique as are the phenomena of the heavenly bodies....
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Joyce A
Thailand
Local time: 10:20
Grading comment
thanks!
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3 +9natural objects visible in the sky perceptible by the senses
Yasutomo Kanazawa
3 +1extraordinary and unique events of the celestial bodies
Joyce A
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Kim Metzger

  

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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +9
natural objects visible in the sky perceptible by the senses


Explanation:
My interpretation would be natural objects, such as the sun, stars, moon, clouds, etc. in the sky which can be perceived by human senses.

Yasutomo Kanazawa
Japan
Local time: 12:20
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in JapaneseJapanese
PRO pts in category: 40

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  John Detre
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agree  Liam Hamilton
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agree  Jim Tucker (X)
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agree  Ysabel812
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agree  Jack Doughty
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agree  K. Ganly (X): definitely stars and moon etc ( though less sure that clouds would be counted as heavanly bodies)
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agree  Annett Kottek (X): Clouds, if they are made of dust or gas (nebulae), but not the condensed water that floats in our atmosphere.
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agree  Rolf Keiser
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agree  Vicky Nash
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
extraordinary and unique events of the celestial bodies


Explanation:
In this case, I tend to think that "phenomena" means remarkable occurrences or events.
Meteors and planets collide. Stars explode. There are so many outstanding, extraordinary, and mysterious occurrences happening in the heavens.

- Your example sentences say: "we may be wafted to a land surpassing in wonders and in beauty every region hitherto discovered on the habitable globe."
- Followed by: Its productions and features may be without example, as the phenomena of the heavenly bodies undoubtedly are in those undiscovered solitudes.

So, what they discover will be something extraordinary, surpassing and unique.
What is discovered will be unique as are the phenomena of the heavenly bodies....

Joyce A
Thailand
Local time: 10:20
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 24
Grading comment
thanks!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Tina Vonhof (X): Not just the moon, the stars, etc. but what happens with them.
7 hrs
  -> Thank you, Tina!
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There--for with your leave, my sister, I will put some trust in preceding navigators--there snow and frost are banished; and, sailing over a calm sea, we may be wafted to a land surpassing in wonders and in beauty every region hitherto discovered on the habitable globe. Its productions and features may be without example, as the phenomena of the heavenly bodies undoubtedly are in those undiscovered solitudes. What may not be expected in a country of eternal light? I may there discover the wondrous power which attracts the needle and may regulate a thousand celestial observations that require only this voyage to render their seeming eccentricities consistent forever.

From Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley

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Note added at 16 mins (2009-12-07 04:07:40 GMT)
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Astronomy: A system of knowledge or beliefs about celestial phenomena: the various astronomies of ancient civilizations.

http://www.wordnik.com/words/astronomy

Kim Metzger
Mexico
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 277
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Asker: thank you very much!

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