Italian: farci su una fantasiaEnglish translation: put your imagination to work 
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| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | Italian term or phrase: | farci su una fantasia | | English translation: | put your imagination to work | | Entered by: | Maura Sciuccati |
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Journalism / magazine article | | Italian term or phrase: farci su una fantasia | Ciao a tutti,
sto traducendo un articolo di una rivista che parla del comportamento che bisogna tenere quando si viene invitati in una piscina privata.
L'espressione in questione si trova nella parte seguente:
"Poichè le piscine private non sono quasi mai idonee all'attività sportiva - piccole o irregolari, affollate di bambini che fanno tuffi a bomba o asettiche e ghiacciate, poco pratiche, in condizioni igieniche dubbie, più figura che altro - per poterne godere al meglio occorre farci su una fantasia, rintracciare un mito di riferimento, interpretare una parte".
Anche se il senso mi è chiaro - nonostante la scrittura contorta della giornalista! - non riesco a trovare un modo carino per rendere quel 'farci su una fantasia'.
Qualche idea?
Grazie in anticipo e buona domenica,
Maura |
| | | put your imagination to work | Explanation:
"use your imagination" "use a little bit of imagination" "put some imagination into it"
I don't think its worth wasting a lot of time over it, Maura. |
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James (Jim) Davis
Italy
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Have a nice evening.
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| think of something fanciful
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Oxford Magazine \\ Issue XX - [ Traduci questa pagina ]J: So, to what extent do you think a lot of what you taught yourself was ... I wanted to write something beautiful—something fanciful, rich, vivid, funny. ...
www.orgs.muohio.edu/oxmag/interview/miller_adrienne.html - 36k - Copia cache - Pagine simili
BlogArt » you are fortunate enough to share in this moment - [ Traduci questa pagina ]Something fanciful like the typefaces you’d see on Victorian calling cards. Presuming you even have access to letterpress, of course. ...
www.crumpart.net/blog/?p=334 - 22k - 3 nov 2006 - Copia cache - Pagine simili
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| make a game of it/create a role for yourself
Explanation:
Hi Maura,
My suggestion is to use "make a game of it" which we use in English when we don't want to take something too seriously. Here it could work because the author talks about interpreting a part later in the sentence, so it's obviously something to be taken lightly.
The other option I though of was "create a role for yourself" which perhaps ties in better with the idea following of the "mito di riferimento" is redundant with "interpretare una parte".
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| put your imagination to work
Explanation:
"use your imagination" "use a little bit of imagination" "put some imagination into it"
I don't think its worth wasting a lot of time over it, Maura.
| | Note from asker to answererThank you very much!
Have a nice evening. |
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