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Italian to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature | | Italian term or phrase: duro e dolce | Si avviano giù per il nevaio e le griffe fanno uno scricchiolio duro e dolce.
I'm struggling to find plausible terms that don't sound like exact opposites - hard and soft! |
|   Russell JonesKudoZ activityQuestions: 122 (none open) ( 19 closed without grading) Answers: 1347
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| | a pleasantly crisp, crunchy sound | Explanation:
That's how I read it - 'dolce' in the sense not of soft and soothing but pleasant and agreeable to the ear. A 'scricchiolio' of footfalls is a fairly light, scrunchy sort of sound anyway. HTH. |
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Oliver Lawrence
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Local time: 06:57
| Grading comment I do like Lara's answer too but am not brave enough to stretch that far without furthere evidence or support. Thanks to all.
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