19:32 Jul 18, 2018 |
Spanish to English translations [PRO] Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / Novel | |||||
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3 +1 | whose impression in my mind was a jagged [broken] one |
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2 +1 | with its broken outline |
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with its broken outline Explanation: based on everything, I think this might do the job |
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whose impression in my mind was a jagged [broken] one Explanation: Excuse my broken English, but "abstracción" would be "idea abstracta", per María Moliner, Diccionario de uso del español, and probably that could be conveyed as "an overall impression in the viewers mind", as in, not really having and exact "HD" vision of the "silhouette of the rooftop", but having the "abstract" or even "vague" idea on how it looked. In other words, if you ask me how it was, I cannot really give you and exact, accurate detail of how it was, the jagged edges, and what angles of the tiles were, and so forth-- and/or the many other specific details, but I have the "overall /abstract impression that it was a "craggy" (if you can use that for a roof) broken silhouette of the rooftop. "Era" is used instead of "estaba", because that is the way it was (in the mind of the 1st person, the writer, narrating the story...) I hope this sheds some light, from a Spaniard viewpoint. Saludos cordiales y suerte. (Re-reading my answer, comes to mind some kind of cubist painting, maybe because "abstracción" is also "arte abstracto"... but it looks to me like the image picture in the mind of the narrator... ;-) |
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