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16:17 Feb 19, 2009 |
Serbo-Croat to English translations [PRO] Art/Literary - Idioms / Maxims / Sayings | |||||||
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under/in the circumstances / under the set of circumstances Explanation: under the circumstances= because of conditions [Latin circum- + stare to stand] under/in the circumstances Given these conditions; such being the case. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/circumstance |
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by force of circumstances; owing to circumstances Explanation: From "Srpsko-engleski frazeoloski recnik" by Zivorad Kovacevic Example sentence(s):
Reference: http://www.harpers.org/archive/1975/12/0022362 Reference: http://www.scholieren.com/boekverslagen/460 |
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driven by circumstances Explanation: Kako je ovo književni tekst, ovdje bih to radije prevela kao "driven by circumstances", a rečenicu možete prevesti na jedan od sljedećih načina: "Driven by circumstances, he entered the world of literature ..." ali možete isto tako preokrenuti rečenicu na sljedeći način, ovisno o daljnjem kontekstu: "He was driven by circumstances into the world of literature..." ili "He was driven by circumstances to enter the world of literature..." Evo i nekoliko primjera: "Each story is highly personal and particular. As a body, they document that women who find themselves in prison are often driven by circumstances into a situation where the emotional or material poverty of their lives makes breaking the law the only option." http://msupress.msu.edu/bookTemplate.php?bookID=2284 "James Stewart is a small-town banker who is driven by circumstances one Christmas Eve to consider suicide..." http://turnerclassic.moviesunlimited.com/results_actor.asp?s... "Many of these victims are the poorest members of society, driven by circumstances to settle in flood plains or on other marginal land." http://www.waterandclimate.org/index.php?id=facingthefacts41... "Albert Neri, a man driven by circumstances into the world of crime" http://www.amazon.com/review/R2V40KCA0SG1AM "Finally driven by circumstances (the natural circumstances, the author suggests, of the American way of life) and his own sensitivity, he becomes a suspect in the murder..." http://biography.jrank.org/pages/4369/Gover-John-Robert.html "and that actual criminals are simply those normal individuals who were driven by circumstances to become criminals." http://www.locusmag.com/2008/Westfahl_TheDarkKnight.html "Hillary is being driven by circumstances to embody the very stereotype that has always haunted her." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thomas-de-zengotita/what-hilla... |
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