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animalario

English translation: menagerie

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Spanish term or phrase:animalario
English translation:menagerie
Entered by: Charles Davis

13:31 Dec 27, 2018
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Spanish term or phrase: animalario
This is from a handbook for an art education program based in Chile:

Muchas de las actividades del Método, por tanto, se basan en estas operaciones de transformación: así como la fabricación de máscaras hace posible convertirse, por unos instantes, en un otro (temible, impresionante o divertido); descubrir las hilarantes combinaciones de fragmentos provoca más de una carcajada en el “animalario”; o decodificar colectivamente en “mensaje secreto” otorga un nuevo sentido a la confección de cada una de las cajas….

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Wendy Gosselin
Argentina
Local time: 20:53
menagerie
Explanation:
According to the Academy dictionary, "animalario" literally means a building where experimental laboratory animals are kept.
http://dle.rae.es/?id=2h9h0iu

But here it's being used more loosely, I think, to refer to the children who are dressing up in animal masks, and what we want is simply a word referring to a collection of animals. I think "menagerie" would fit well; it's also used more generally to mean a varied collection.

"menagerie
1 a : a place where animals are kept and trained especially for exhibition
b : a collection of wild or foreign animals kept especially for exhibition"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/menagerie

A menagerie [...] is a collection of live animals that people visit, study, or keep as pets."
https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/menagerie
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Charles Davis
Spain
Local time: 01:53
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thanks!
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4 +4menagerie
Charles Davis
3classroom
Giovanni Rengifo


  

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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
menagerie


Explanation:
According to the Academy dictionary, "animalario" literally means a building where experimental laboratory animals are kept.
http://dle.rae.es/?id=2h9h0iu

But here it's being used more loosely, I think, to refer to the children who are dressing up in animal masks, and what we want is simply a word referring to a collection of animals. I think "menagerie" would fit well; it's also used more generally to mean a varied collection.

"menagerie
1 a : a place where animals are kept and trained especially for exhibition
b : a collection of wild or foreign animals kept especially for exhibition"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/menagerie

A menagerie [...] is a collection of live animals that people visit, study, or keep as pets."
https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/menagerie

Charles Davis
Spain
Local time: 01:53
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 123
Grading comment
thanks!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  David Hollywood: like your thinking on this ... works on several levels
3 hrs
  -> Thanks very much, David :-)
agree  neilmac
4 hrs
  -> Cheers, Neil :-)
agree  Sid Ralph (X)
9 hrs
  -> Thanks, Sid :-)
agree  Muriel Vasconcellos: Agree with David: 'it works on several levels'
9 hrs
  -> Many thanks, Muriel :-)
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
classroom


Explanation:
I think this is what the author means here
(a classroom where kids are as wild as "animals"; a zoo if you will)
You may want to use "classmates" instead.



Giovanni Rengifo
Colombia
Local time: 18:53
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 56
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