Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

levantar vuelo

English translation:

take flight

Added to glossary by conejo
Nov 7, 2004 17:49
19 yrs ago
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Spanish term

levantar vuelo

Non-PRO Spanish to English Art/Literary Music
From the Julieta Venegas song, "Lento":

Si quieres un poco de mí, dame paciencia y verás será mejor que andar corriendo, levantar vuelo y poco a poco olvidar, el tiempo y su velocidad frenar el ritmo, ir muy lento, cada vez más lento.

What does "levantar vuelo" mean exactly?

Gracias.

Proposed translations

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Selected

take flight

Very poetic!
Peer comment(s):

agree Marian Greenfield
9 mins
Thanks, Marian!
agree Margaret Schroeder
26 mins
Thanks so much!
agree Henry Hinds : A good respite from your current job, for sure!
33 mins
You'd better believe it! I wish this translation would take flight and never come back... ;-)
agree Refugio : The translation is too heavy to take flight, you would have to fly away from it! ;~}
49 mins
Fly? Try run!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
agree Ines Garcia Botana : how sweet...
2 hrs
Yes, that's me, Romantic Sandra...
agree Stuart Allsop : Nice!
4 hrs
*yawn* -- all in a day's work hehehe
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks, all."
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fly off / fly away

Oxford:

vuelo1 m
1 a (acción): contemplaba el vuelo de las gaviotas he was watching the seagulls’ flight o the seagulls
flying; remontar el vuelo to soar up; un piloto con más de mil horas de vuelo a pilot with more
than a thousand hours’ flying time; agarrarlas or cazarlas or cogerlas al vuelo to be very quick
on the uptake, to be sharp (colloq); agarrar vuelo (Chi fam) to pick up speed; alzar or levantar
el vuelo « pájaro » to fly away o off; « avión » to take off; « persona » to fly o leave the nest; a vuelo
de pájaro (AmL): así, a vuelo de pájaro, han de ser unas cinco hectáreas at a rough o quick
guess, I’d say it’s about five hectares; leí el informe a vuelo de pájaro I just skimmed over the
report; de alto vuelo: un proyecto de alto vuelo a big o an important o a prestigious project; un
ejecutivo de alto vuelo a high-flying executive; el vuelo de una mosca: no se oía ni el vuelo de
una mosca you could have heard a pin drop (colloq), there wasn’t a sound to be heard; tomar
vuelo to take flight
b (trayecto, viaje) flight; Madrid-Londres son dos horas de vuelo it is a two-hour flight from
Madrid to London, it takes two hours to fly from Madrid to London
c (avión) flight; el vuelo 852 procedente de París flight 852 from Paris; el vuelo llegó con retraso
the flight o the plane was late
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to take off (flying)

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