All 11 Uses of
interpret
in
Snow Crash
- "Please excuse me if I have misinterpreted your story," the businessman says, "but I was under the impression that men of your race were not allowed to fight during that war."†
Chpt 11-12
- For many centuries, this was interpreted to mean that its top was so high that it was in the heavens.†
Chpt 13-14
- Eve-whose Biblical name is Hawwa-is clearly the Hebrew interpretation of an older myth.†
Chpt 29-30
- Nicolas Wyatt's radical interpretation of the Adam and Eve story supposes that it was, in fact, written as a political allegory by the deuteronomists.†
Chpt 29-30
- According to the interpretation of Hvidberg and, later, Wyatt, Adam in his garden is a parable for the king in his sanctuary, specifically King Hosea, who ruled the northern kingdom until it was conquered by Sargon II in 722 B.C. That's the conquest you mentioned earlier-the one that drove the deuteronomists southward toward Jerusalem?'†
Chpt 29-30
- According to this interpretation, the king was enticed away from the path of righteousness by the cult of El, with its associated worship of Asherah-who is commonly associated with serpents, and whose symbol is a tree.†
Chpt 29-30
- How this story is translated depends on how it is interpreted.†
Chpt 33-34
- This reading is based on the interpretation of Bendt Aister.†
Chpt 33-34 *
- Aister interprets the myth as 'an exposition of a logical problem: Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being?'†
Chpt 33-34
- Lagos modified the strict Chomskyan theory by supposing that learning a language is like blowing code into PROMs-an analogy that I cannot interpret.
Chpt 35-36 *interpret = understand or explain
- This was his interpretation.†
Chpt 35-36
Definitions:
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(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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(interpret as in: interpret Spanish to English) to translate words into spoken words of another language
(This word is especially used in place of translate when the translation is done real-time, or on-the-fly, or immediately as needed.)