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Sentences from a book
I have to translate some paragraphs from an English book into Spanish. There are a few sentences of which I'm not sure:
(we) secure ancestral halls for the summer. Aseguramos las entradas ancestrales en verano. He has no patience with faith, an intense horror of superstition. No soporta la fe, un horror intenso de superstición. I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind. No se lo diría a ninguna alma viviente, naturalmente, pero esto es papel muerto (inerte) y un gran alivio para mi mente. What is one to do? ¿Qué puede hacer una? Quite three miles from the village. A unas (?) tres millas del pueblo. By Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Paper Thanks. |
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Dead paper: merely paper Elizabeth Barrett Browning My letters! all dead paper, mute and white! And yet they seem alive and quivering Against my tremulous hands which loose the string And let them drop down on my knee to-night. This said,—he wished to have me in his sight Once, as a friend: this fixed a day in spring To come and touch my hand . . . a simple thing, Yet I wept for it!—this, . . . the paper's light . . . Said, Dear, I love thee; and I sank and quailed As if God's future thundered on my past. This said, I am thine—and so its ink has paled With Iying at my heart that beat too fast. And this . . . O Love, thy words have ill availed If, what this said, I dared repeat at last! What is one to do? suggests a situation where there there is no satisfactory solution. The emphasis is always on the is. Quite three miles from the village. I would read this as 'At least 3 miles from the village.' or 'Certainly ...' |
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Thanks for your answer and for the poem.
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No tener paciencia con algo, no necesariamente significa que uno aborresca hacerlo. Bueno, para mí. |
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what do you guys think are the best translation sites?
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True, also both: What is one to do?
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No me cuadra en castellano "tener paciencia con la fe" . Tiene que sonar natural (en el contexto literario), no una traducción literal. Lo de las "entradas ancestrales" tampoco me suena natural. Mañana tengo examen de traducción. A ver qué texto me cae... Thanks everybody. |
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Para mí, si uno dice we need this for the weekend, entiendo que el fin de semana esta por venir... |
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It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. I don't know the former sentences, but the main character talks about a haunted house (among another things). Maybe you wanted to say "durante el verano" (to me "para" has no meaning here ). Thanks. |
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