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Personaje curioso
No estoy segura sobre el significado de la palabra curioso en esta frase:
Español: Pablo Neruda, el gran poeta chileno, es un personaje curioso en una película italiana. Mi intento: Inglés: Pablo Neruda, the great Chilean poet, is an interesting character in an Italian film. OR.... Pablo Neruda, the great Chilean poet, is a strange character in an Italian film. O ... ¿qué?
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It could be both, but it would rather depend on the way his portrait has been presented in such film.
With no more context, I can only assume the use of "curioso" has a positive intention, as they recognize him as a "gran poeta".
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Without context I would say "a character", but in context that doesn't work. "An eccentric character", perhaps.
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We can't say what it means in that sentence. Al least four contrasting meanings are possible (curious, unusual, strange, ...). We need more context ¿El cartero y Pablo Neruda?
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Thanks, all - that helps. At least it's not me, huh?
Alec - I'm not sure, as I haven't seen that movie. But I just went and read a short blurb about it, and it looks like that's it.
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I was curious about this, so looked it up. Perhaps it is not so curious after all that curious can have so many different meanings, and that curioso can have them all as well. |
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You are right.
"Curioso" is also in Spanish a ... wildcard. It is "curioso" because it has caught our attention for being <insert one of hundred meanings here>. It is also comfortable because we can express a strange feeling without qualifying the cause ("Es raro" ---> "Me parece curioso" ). How do they call these kind of words? bus words? (in Spanish "palabras ómnibus")
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Gran Diccionario Oxford: curioso1-sa adjetivo A (interesante, extraño) curious, strange, odd; es curioso que no haya venido it's odd o strange o curious that she hasn't come; lo curioso del caso es que … the strange o funny o odd o curious thing is that … |
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