All 10 Uses
interpret
in
Love in the Time of Cholera
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- She interpreted this as a heroic determination to struggle without quarter against the ravages of time, but he was more specific: he had made the irrevocable decision to take his own life when he was seventy years old.†
Chpt 1interpreted = translated
- His interpretation was incorrect only in part, because the woman was the aunt, not the mother of the child, although she had raised her as if she were her own.†
Chpt 2interpretation = a particular understanding or explanation
- He really thought it was, and she was going to know very soon, and for the rest of her life, that the topic of music was almost a magic formula that he used to propose friendship, but at that moment she interpreted it as a joke.
Chpt 3 *interpreted = understood (in a particular way)
- He had no idea how to interpret this: either the pigeon had lost the note en route, or the pigeonkeeper had decided to play innocent, or she had returned the pigeon so that he could send it back to her again.†
Chpt 4interpret = to understand or explain something in a particular way
- But Lucrecia del Real did not visit Fermina Daza again, and Fermina Daza interpreted this as a confession of guilt.†
Chpt 6 *interpreted = translated
- Not the sadness he had felt that morning when he stood before the corpse of his friend, but the invisible cloud that would saturate his soul after his siesta and which he interpreted as divine notification that he was living his final afternoons.†
Chpt 1
- Lorenzo Daza interpreted these changes in her manner as proof that distance and time had cured her of her juvenile fantasies, but he never spoke to her about his plans for the arranged marriage.†
Chpt 2
- During the ceremony, and later at the reception, she wore a smile that seemed painted on with white lead, a soulless grimace that some interpreted as a mocking smile of victory, but in reality was her poor attempt at disguising the terror of a virgin bride.†
Chpt 3
- But on Friday he was invaded by an unreasoning calm, which he interpreted as an omen that nothing new was going to happen, that everything he had done in his life had been in vain, that he could not go on: it was the end.†
Chpt 5
- Fermina Daza could not have imagined that her letter, inspired by blind rage, would have been interpreted by Florentino Ariza as a love letter.†
Chpt 6
Definitions:
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(1)
(interpret as in: interpret Spanish to English) to translate someone’s words into spoken words of another language while they are speaking
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(2)
(interpret as in: her interpretation of the data) to understand or explain something in a particular way -- often the meaning or significance of something
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(3)
(interpret as in: her musical interpretation) capture someone else's ideas, or express personal artistic ideas or feelings while performing someone else's work
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)