Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

a slow grinding away of the human form

Spanish translation:

una lenta y persistente erosión de la forma humana

Added to glossary by Adriana de Groote
Oct 10, 2006 01:26
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English term

a slow grinding away of the human form

English to Spanish Art/Literary Linguistics traducci{on
A psychoanalyst -dead not many years- showed to certain of his friends and patients photographs of ancient statues in perspectives that stressed the action of time: missing limbs, worn surfaces, features eaten by long erosion. His subjects-so he reports- were invariably uneasy, both attracted and repelled at the sight of these beautiful and ruined objects. Clearly, they felt themselves guilty, having in their hearts willed always death and torture and a slow grinding away of the human form.

Proposed translations

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una lenta y persistente erosión de la forma humana

Una opción, pero pueden haber muchas formas poéticas de decirlo.
Peer comment(s):

agree Bruno Pegorer (X)
16 mins
Muchas gracias Bruno!
agree Refugio : o desgaste, como "erosión" aparece en la frase anterior
7 hrs
Perfecto, muchas gracias Ruth!
agree Leslie Hoffman : o incluso descomposicion
8 hrs
Muy bien también, gracias!
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24 mins

la lenta e incesante pulverización de la forma humana

un poco cambiado el enfoque.
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25 mins

un paulatino deterioro del cuerpo humano.

Podría ser una posibilidad.
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1 hr

el lento deterioro de la forma humana

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Peer comment(s):

agree MitsukoD : UN lento...
10 hrs
gracias Mitsuko y saludos!
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