Low end

*On the low end*, a three-pack of agile, pint-sized, carnivores.

Again I'm in need of your indispensable help:

is it simply the end of somewhere, which is lower, that is a location?

because later they say:
"Towering above them..."

Thanks a lot

Almost certainly a reference to their small size. An interesting choice of words, though. "On the low end" is often used to describe those items that are cheapest on a price list or menu. The metaphor works if my guess is right.

"But no one's *wired to stay afraid* for too long, including Pod"

somehow I don't understand this sentence. I know that wired is excited or nervous but what does he want to say exactly?
Thanks a lot

Wired = hardwired? Pod can choose whether to continue to be afraid.

For "low end," more context is needed. Are you still translating something about a veterinary hospital? "On the low end" might mean the three carnivores have lower priority; their case isn't an emergency, and the doctor doesn't have to see them before other patients. It might mean instead that the doctor doesn't much want to treat them.

"Wired" doesn't mean "nervous" here. It means "biologically programmed." Pod's brain won't sustain prolonged fear.


Thank you Berg for your help.
This time it's not the veterinary hospital, but a discovery film on dinosaurs.
different kind of dinosaurs are described and among them - "at the low end" are three small ones (they are raptors):

"On the low end, a three-pack of agile, pint-sized, carnivores

Towering above them, a skyline of titanosaurs, Europe's foremost vegetarians".

The two are contrasted in their height. perhaps it is just a reference to their height?

I accepted the explanation about the programme thank you.

Thanks, miri

In that context, "on the low end" probably does refer to their height. Use of the phrase this way seems intended to be amusing.

Thank you very much (in Hebrew I cann't play with the double meaning of low end (the cheapest), well you cann't winn them all. can you?

"Low end" also implies lesser worth or poorer quality or less importance-the bottom end of the range in any measure of value. A recent term with the same connotation is "downscale." Maybe there's something there that you can use.

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