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Spanish term or phrase:
bajas pasiones
English translation:
base instincts
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Sheilann
Jul 23, 2007 12:39
16 yrs ago
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Spanish term
bajas pasiones
Spanish to English
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No debe haber lugar para bajas pasiones en el corazón de los revolucionarios.
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Jul 29, 2007 17:06: Sheilann Created KOG entry
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base instincts
that's what I've always seen in romantic ficton
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Comment: "Thank you, indeed!"
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Aidee Lopez-Robles
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low/short passions
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subdued passions / lack of high level of enthusiasm
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Marcelo Silveyra
: I can see where you're coming from with this, but "bajas pasiones" is not a literal term...check MargaEsther's and Sheilann's answers
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heartfelt passions
Try this.
Example sentence:
"As a young man Wordsworth was inspired by revolutionary ideals and heartfelt passions which influenced his poetry"
"John Paul did not use the media and his trips only for political ends. He designed his pastoral strategy for the “new evangelization”—one of his most heartfelt passions, even if its content always remained a little vague—as a “traveler’s” s
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Marcelo Silveyra
: Sorry Toby, but "heartfelt passions" can be perfectly good -as your examples demonstrate-, whereas "bajas pasiones" is exactly the opposite!
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selfishness/not be motivated by selfishness
bajas pasiones, dependiendo del contexto, pueden ser o bien egoísmo, mezquindad, o bien lujuria. En este contexto me inclino a pensar que se refiere a egoísmo.
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Lydia De Jorge
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Don't just say it, say it right!
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personal desires
That's what I understand by 'bajas pasiones'
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Salloz
: Las bajas pasiones son siempre moralmente bajunas o conducen a actos moralmente reprobables. Son deseos desordenados cuasibestiales.
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and wouldn't immoral desires be personal?
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blinding passions
-The hearts of the revolutionaries shall be rid of blinding passions...
-There shall be no room for blinding passions in the hearts of the revolutionaries."
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"BC: Perhaps it is a blessing when Jasmine Dent dies in her sleep. At long last an end has come to the suffering of a body horribly ravaged by disease. It may well have been suicide; she had certainly expressed her willingness to speed the inevitable. But small inconsistencies lead her neighbor, Superintendent Duncan Kincaid of Scotland Yard, to a startling conclusion: Jasmine Dent was murdered. But if not for mercy, why would someone destroy a life already so fragile and doomed? As Kincaid and his capable and appealing assistant Sergeant Gemma James sift through the dead woman's strange history, a troubling puzzle begins to take shape-a bizarre amalgam of good and evil, of charity and crime ... and of the blinding passions that can drive the human animal to perform cruel and inhuman acts."
-There shall be no room for blinding passions in the hearts of the revolutionaries."
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"BC: Perhaps it is a blessing when Jasmine Dent dies in her sleep. At long last an end has come to the suffering of a body horribly ravaged by disease. It may well have been suicide; she had certainly expressed her willingness to speed the inevitable. But small inconsistencies lead her neighbor, Superintendent Duncan Kincaid of Scotland Yard, to a startling conclusion: Jasmine Dent was murdered. But if not for mercy, why would someone destroy a life already so fragile and doomed? As Kincaid and his capable and appealing assistant Sergeant Gemma James sift through the dead woman's strange history, a troubling puzzle begins to take shape-a bizarre amalgam of good and evil, of charity and crime ... and of the blinding passions that can drive the human animal to perform cruel and inhuman acts."
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