All 17 Uses
interpret
in
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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- I found a watchman on the property who could speak a little German.... The watchman interpreted.
Chpt 1.1 *interpreted = translated
- There was an understanding between the two men that Blomkvist could not interpret.
Chpt 1.4interpret = understand
- His interpretation of this was that she was shy, retarded, or had something to hide, and he pressed her for answers.
Chpt 2.10interpretation = understanding
- Signals passed between them that Blomkvist could not interpret, which might have had to do with the fact that he was basically a poor working-class boy from Norrland and she was an upper-class girl with a distinguished, international family tree.
Chpt 2.11interpret = understand
- After that she wrote nothing personal until the end of the school year when she apparently—depending on how the entries were interpreted—became interested from a distance in some never-named boy.
Chpt 2.11interpreted = understood
- The wording of the law states, however, that the conditions of a guardianship “shall be adapted to each individual case.” Palmgren had interpreted this to mean that Salander could take charge of her own money and her own life.
Chpt 2.12interpreted = understood (in a particular way)
- Salander felt as if she were the only one who had not changed a bit, which could also be interpreted as that she was simply marking time and going nowhere.
Chpt 2.12
- But we can't interpret them.
Chpt 2.13interpret = understand
- Or else we're interpreting them wrong. ... They're not telephone numbers.
Chpt 2.13interpreting = understanding (something in a particular way)
- Take for example the quote that both have to be cut off from their people if someone has sex with a girl who's having her period. If that's interpreted literally, the killer should have committed suicide.
Chpt 3.20interpreted = understood (in a particular way)
- But it seems that not one of the investigating detectives interpreted any of the murders in terms of the Bible.
Chpt 3.20 *
- For example, the Apocrypha claim that magic can be practised and that lies in certain cases may be permissible, and such statements, of course, upset dogmatic interpreters of Scripture.
Chpt 3.22interpreters = people who explain things in a particular way
- I won't speculate about what impulses Gottfried was trying to satisfy or how he himself interpreted what he was doing.
Chpt 4.25interpreted = understood
- They could see the message, but without a key they would never be able to interpret the meaning.
Chpt 4.28interpret = understand
- Her problem was that she could not interpret her own feelings for him.
Chpt Epil.
- But Herr Frode had given her instructions that could not be misinterpreted.†
Chpt 3.23misinterpreted = wrongly translatedstandard prefix: The prefix "mis-" in misinterpreted means wrong and reverses the meaning of interpreted. This is the same pattern you see in words like misunderstand, misbehave, and misuse.
- Their body language left no room for misinterpretations—it was obvious what they had in mind.†
Chpt Epil.misinterpretations = wrong understandingsstandard prefix: The prefix "mis-" in misinterpretations means wrong and reverses the meaning of interpretations. This is the same pattern you see in words like misunderstand, misbehave, and misuse.
Definitions:
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(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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(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)