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23:36 Mar 5, 2008 |
Catalan to English translations [PRO] Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting / Video Artist | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Ross Andrew Parker Local time: 20:38 | ||||||
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to unite/to join palms Explanation: To unite or to join palms or hands |
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string (yoke) these handspans of distance together Explanation: It seems like it must be a metaphor rather than sth literal. You says the the text is about "measuring the distance he travels in doing a series of nitty-gritty tasks". "Pams" (as I'm sure you know) are used to measure. collar > one meaning: enjovar > yoke together So, MAYBE the idea is something like "string (yoke) these handspans of distance together" and then consider how far he's come. |
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warm up his hands by rubbing them Explanation: a typical movement of rubbing both open hands on each other, as a movement expressing "let us start", kind of "tic" to stimulate the blood circulation to dominate better each movement, Just a suggestion, Bernie |
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to clap and/or rub hands together Explanation: The artist has been relaxing, and then, after lighting a cigarette, claps/rubs his hands together, says : "ok let's go!!" and then starts with work, taking a few steps backwards (enriterar-se unes passes) to see what he's done until that moment of his work, to see how is it going.... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 9 hores (2008-03-06 09:02:22 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- ....just as we would do when after relaxing, go sit down in front of our computers, so to face a some thousand translation, knowing we'll be asleep for many hours at night, and then breath deeply and sigh, clap and rub hands together thinking "a coger el toro por los cuernos" (grasp the nettle) and start to madly clobbering keyboard. |
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