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بمقرعة الذات الراوية

English translation: the narrator's self lashing out


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13:19 Dec 15, 2011
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Arabic term or phrase: بمقرعة الذات الراوية
أن مؤلفها قد نسج بناء دراميا مكتوبا بوعي سياسي وعقل تاريخي بامتياز، ولكن دون أن يفسد ذلك بمقرعة الذات الراوية
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Local time: 22:07
English translation:the narrator's self lashing out
Explanation:
or the narrator's self criticizing
"lash out (at somebody/something)
to angrily criticize someone or something The mayor often lashes out at people who don't agree with him"
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/lash out
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Howaida Emad
Local time: 22:07
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Summary of answers provided
4without pressing/wedging/forcing/pushing/intrusion a self narratorAhmed Badawy
4by being a verbose/garrulous writer
Liliane Hatem
4The salient spirit of the narrator
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3the narrator's self lashing out
Howaida Emad


  

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by being a verbose/garrulous writer


Explanation:
We speak of a chattering monkey or a chattering idiot, a talkative child, a talkative or loquacious woman, a garrulous old man, a verbose writer or politician. ...

www.diccionarioingles.com/dictionary/garrulous.html
of the Hudson River valley has, therefore, "high antiquity" in this record of the garrulous writer

Liliane Hatem
Local time: 23:07
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in ArabicArabic
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the narrator's self lashing out


Explanation:
or the narrator's self criticizing
"lash out (at somebody/something)
to angrily criticize someone or something The mayor often lashes out at people who don't agree with him"
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/lash out

Howaida Emad
Local time: 22:07
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
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without pressing/wedging/forcing/pushing/intrusion a self narrator


Explanation:
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Note added at 7 hrs (2011-12-15 20:50:04 GMT)
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sorry,
it should be (as a self narrator)

Ahmed Badawy
Local time: 22:07
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
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The salient spirit of the narrator


Explanation:
مقرعة = = salient = 1. Projecting or jutting beyond a line or surface; protruding.
2. Strikingly conspicuous; prominent. See Synonyms at noticeable.
3. Springing; jumping:

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Local time: 16:07
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Language pairEnglish to Arabic => Arabic to English


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