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English translation: tender or sensitive heart

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Russian term or phrase:	трепетное сердце
English translation:	tender or sensitive heart
Entered by:	Sophia Hundt

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08:56 Aug 6, 2006

Russian to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting

Russian term or phrase: трепетное сердце

Ведь совсем неважно, через какую из этих творческих форм нашел талант свой выход в современный мир людей, которые часто делают вид, что заняты такими глобальными проблемами, что порой забывают о своей, стремящейся к возвышенному душе и трепетном сердце

Arkadi Burkov KudoZ activity Questions: 1203 (none open) (27 closed without grading) Answers: 1069 Belarus
Local time: 15:11

tender or senstive heart

Explanation:
In this context I think "tender (or sensitve) heart" fits better.

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Note added at 5 hrs (2006-08-06 14:13:43 GMT)
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I am sorry, I meant to type "sensitive". thank you.

Selected response from:

Sophia Hundt
Local time: 06:11

Grading comment

Selected automatically based on peer agreement.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

5 +2

tender or senstive heart

Sophia Hundt

4 +2

trembling heart

David Knowles

4 +1

passionate heart soul

Vladimir Dubisskiy

3 +1

responsive heart /// or ... a heart that listens

xxxzhop

eager heart

Andrew Vdovin

3 +1

sublime soul and compassionate heart

ochkarik

achy breaky heart

Dan Brennan

emphatic heart

xxxIreneN

2 +1

a noble spirit and an eager heart

Yavor Dimitrov

3 -1

fragile heart

Zoya Askarova

4 -2

living heart

Alexander Demyanov

3 -1

restless heart

xxxsergey

3 -2

with heart aflutter

Сергей Лузан

Discussion entries: 13

Erzsébet Czopyk

Hungary

06:18 Aug 7, 2006

Я в начале завидовала Вам за такой красивый текст (у нас одни контракты и руководства по эксплуатации), но теперь...

Vladimir Dubisskiy

23:17 Aug 6, 2006

или, хотя бы, запятая нужна после "душе". По идее, запятая также нужна и перед "душе".

Vladimir Dubisskiy

23:15 Aug 6, 2006

Другая бьющая в глаза корявость - несогласование: "о своей ....душе и (выходит "своей) сердце" - а должно быть "своеМ" .. сердце".

Vladimir Dubisskiy

23:07 Aug 6, 2006

the Russian sentence is poorly structured with those "что", "что".

Dylan Edwards

18:12 Aug 6, 2006

I think that should be "И сердце трепетное вынул", and it's "shaking heart" in one translation, which doesn't help us much here.

Dylan Edwards

18:07 Aug 6, 2006

Just remembered, these words are in Pushkin's Пророк: "И сердце трепетное огнем, ..." - I wonder if an English translation of the poem would give us any clues here?

David Knowles

16:17 Aug 6, 2006

This will have to be my last try! How about "searching heart" or "questing heart"? "spirit" would also fit instead of "heart".

xxxsergey

15:29 Aug 6, 2006

i think 'трепетное сердце" is something that everybody has deep deep inside in this context and is a prerequisite for a seeking soul that won't rest until it's found this sublime... whatever it's striving to find...

David Knowles

14:17 Aug 6, 2006

Following Dan's suggestion, what about something like "striving to elevate the soul and delight the heart/spirit"?

Dan Brennan

United Kingdom

11:46 Aug 6, 2006

the problem is... all four of the suggestions using "heart" that i see below look great ie. they are valid collocations... but none of them describe the meaning the asker has indicated...

Dan Brennan

United Kingdom

11:44 Aug 6, 2006

obviously you have the problem that "soul" is already spoken for, so to speak, so perhaps you could juxtapose "soul" and "spirit"

Dan Brennan

United Kingdom

11:42 Aug 6, 2006

To asker and fellow translators: it might be worth thinking laterally here as I find that often, in metaphorical contexts, English call on the soul or spirit instead of the heart. Based on Rakardi's note, I'm guessing that might eb the case here...

Arkadi Burkov

Belarus

ASKER

09:19 Aug 6, 2006

Мне кажется, "трепетное сердце" - это общая характеристика человека, душа которого стремится к возвышенному, а сердце способно (и хочет) переживать тонкие чувства.

Answers

36 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): -1

restless heart

Explanation:
You've got a restless heart
Restless change is blowing through your life
Tears in your eyes
Tears in the books that I've been reading
I don't understand you now
And I never will
But I still love your restless heart
http://shakti.trincoll.edu/~jgilbert/jwstuff/lyrics/restless...

xxxsergey
Local time: 12:11

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

disagree

Dan Brennan: restless generally collocates nicely with spirit, or even soul, but not with heart...TO SERGEY: that'll maybe be because there is a group called Restless Heart. There are also groups called Gay Dad and Arctic Monkeys. What did Churchill say about stats?

5 hrs

-> says who? PS 334,000 hits for 'restless heart' on my computer...PPS my computer says "YES" :-)

neutral

Alexander Demyanov: You are certainly right in your dispute w/Daniel. "Heart" does go w/"restless". I would just appeal to your own "ask the asker" comment. Some people have "restless hearts". Every living person has a "трепетное сердце".

6 hrs

-> well, "трепетное сердце" won't rest, as i said, hence 'restless"

8 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

trembling heart

Explanation:
from spiritual uplift from the painting.

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Note added at 45 mins (2006-08-06 09:41:49 GMT)
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There is a popular hymn by Charles Wesley which starts:

Love divine, all loves excelling,
joy of heaven, to earth come down;
fix in us thy humble dwelling;
all thy faithful mercies crown!
Jesus thou art all compassion,
pure, unbounded love thou art;
visit us with thy salvation;
enter every trembling heart.

http://www.hymnsite.com/lyrics/umh384.sht

David Knowles
Local time: 12:11
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 40

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

Henry Schroeder

2 hrs

disagree

Alexander Demyanov: "trembling heart" (in most cases, I think) reeks of worry, anxiety, etc. "Трепетное сердце" (here) means just "heart of a living person"// I believe it does. I think you have just stumbled upon a good option: "beating heart"

4 hrs

-> That's why I put the verse of a hymn in here. It usually means trembling with emotion, but that emotion can often be of a religious or spiritual nature. I don't think it just means "beating heart".

neutral

xxxsergey: i think 'trembling heart' is a reaction to an emotion etc; wheras here it's a prerequisite for a seeking soul etc...

6 hrs

-> Interesting! It's a new angle, but the last line of the hymn seems to show a similar feeling: enter every trembling heart. The heart is trembling before the spirit enters it.

neutral

Dan Brennan: sounds like beating heart could be what you're after, if this is something that is of the human essence, and not a characteristic of certain people... it has a metaphorical dimension as well as a literal one....

9 hrs

agree

Erzsébet Czopyk

21 hrs

agree

Dorene Cornwell

2 days44 mins

50 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): -1

fragile heart

Explanation:
Сердце полетит к ней трепетное, выискивая путь к мечте!
Hope everything will be allright with your heart and fragile soul ))
02.01.2006 - 27 Kb - http://www.stihi.ru/poems/2005/12/23-1660.html

1. И славу нашей старины, И сердца трепетные сны. II
the heart and all its fragile dreams.
06.02.2005 - 76 Kb - http://justlife.narod.ru/onegin/onegin

Zoya Askarova
Singapore
Local time: 20:11
Native speaker of: Russian
PRO pts in category: 12

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): -2

with heart aflutter

Explanation:
heart aflutter с замиранием сердца
http://www.multitran.ru/c/m.exe?a=phr&s=aflutter&sc=0&L1=1&L...

Reference: http://www.google.com/search?hl=ru&as_qdr=all&q=+%22with+hea...
Reference: http://www.google.com/search?hl=ru&as_qdr=all&q=+%22heart+af...

Сергей Лузан
Russian Federation
Local time: 16:11
Native speaker of:

Russian
PRO pts in category: 19

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

disagree

Alexander Demyanov: I don't believe "сердечный трепет" (different from "трепетное сердце") or "замирание сердца", or any other translation of "afluter" fits the context.//Again, _you_ seem confused here. Look up "aflutter". Also, can a living heart be "нетрепетное"?

3 hrs

-> You just confused "Трепетное" (used metaphorically i.e. figuratively) vs. "трепещущее" in the direct sense of the word in the source. It's not just "heart of a(ny) living person" in the Russian source, no way. 'responsive &open heart' is implied by critic

disagree

Dan Brennan: this might describe a young maiden seeing her beau ride into sight across the hills... i'm not sure it works to describe the lofty aspirations of our artist friend here

11 hrs

-> 'responsive & open heart' is implied (see other questions of the asker as well), quite a common cliche expression of critics. 'responsive heart' might be the way out here that works however insophisticated it can sound.

5 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): -2

living heart

Explanation:
http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=peabody&book=gr...

and such

Alexander Demyanov
Local time: 07:11
Native speaker of:

Russian
PRO pts in category: 28

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

disagree

Dan Brennan: has no metaphorical resonance in English. in fact you would not talk about a living heart in any context... Alex: I'd suggest that some of those 105,000 references merit closer scrutiny before you call on them as reliable evidence for the defence

42 mins

-> Maybe you wouldn't but sources do. See my ref and other in Google.//Some (many) don't appy indeed. I'm still more interested in those that do. In any case, the link provided seems convincing to me

disagree

Сергей Лузан: "Трепетное" doesn't mean just "heart of a living person" in the Russian source & is used metaphorically here. 'responsive & open heart' is implied (see other questions of the asker as well). You confused "Трепетное" vs. "трепещущее".

3 hrs

-> Well, I say you are incorrect here. "Трепетноe сердце" is a poetic expression for "сердце". You, with your suggested "afluter" are the one either confusing трепетное w/трепещущее, or in need to look up "aflutter"

5 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

tender or senstive heart

Sophia Hundt
Local time: 06:11
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Russian
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

Selected automatically based on peer agreement.

6 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

a noble spirit and an eager heart

Explanation:
How about "a noble spirit and an eager heart"? Moving away from the original?

Yavor Dimitrov
Bulgaria
Local time: 14:11
Native speaker of:

Bulgarian

6 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

sublime soul and compassionate heart

Explanation:
что называется - " в лоб"

ochkarik
Local time: 07:11
Native speaker of:

Russian,

Ukrainian

7 hrs confidence:

emphatic heart

Explanation:
http://www.adl.org/PresRele/chjew_31/2975_31.asp

"His magnificent spirit, his emphatic heart, his great mind walk with prophets and kings and all those who ennoble the world with their courage and character," said the Jewish civil rights/human relations organization in an advertisement appearing in The Providence Visitor on May 15

xxxIreneN
United States
Local time: 06:11
Native speaker of:

Russian
PRO pts in category: 4

14 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

passionate heart soul

Explanation:
*

Vladimir Dubisskiy
Local time: 06:11
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Russian,

Ukrainian
PRO pts in category: 20

21 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

responsive heart /// or ... a heart that listens

Explanation:
-

xxxzhop
Local time: 16:11
Native speaker of:

Russian

1 day6 hrs confidence:

achy breaky heart

Explanation:
To quote the great bard and lyricist Billy Ray Cyrus

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Note added at 1 day6 hrs (2006-08-07 15:42:11 GMT)
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or perhaps "tremulous ticker"

Dan Brennan
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:11
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 16

3 days19 hrs confidence:

eager heart

Explanation:
That's the way I'd put it.

... truth of the saying that only in the profound unconsciousness of self-forgetfulness can the truth and reality of being reveal itself to his eager heart. ...
www.katinkahesselink.net/paradox.htm

The old man looked strange and wild; with his eager heart and brain, suffering was likely enough to have produced madness. If it were so, the vengeance that ...
www.princeton.edu/~batke/eliot/romola/rom_23.html

... his excellent memory easily handling hundreds of finger twisting runs and his eager heart always open to everything that was talented and original. ...
www.vor.ru/English/Music_Portraits/Music_Portraite_54.html

Andrew Vdovin
Local time: 19:11
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Russian

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