https://www.proz.com/kudoz/spanish-to-english/art-literary/404368-tapizando-el-suelo.html
This site uses cookies. Some of these cookies are essential to the operation of the site, while others help to improve your experience by providing insights into how the site is being used. For more information, please see the ProZ.com privacy policy.
Cookie settings
  1. KudoZ™ Top
  2. Spanish to English

tapizando el suelo

English translation: carpeting the ground

19:28 Apr 3, 2003
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary
Spanish term or phrase: tapizando el suelo
las hojas de otoño tapizando el suelo.
MGB
Local time: 08:35
English translation:carpeting the ground
Explanation:
that's it.


Autum leaves carpeting the ground.
Selected response from:

Marian Greenfield
Local time: 07:35
Grading comment
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +3the ground was carpeted with autumn leaves
Luis Rey Ballesteros (Luiroi)
5 +3weaving a tapestry on the floor
Raquel Iglesias
5 +1carpeting the ground
Marian Greenfield
5covering the ground
JH Trads
5covering the soil as a carpet; carpeting
afsdfds
5The autumn leaves like scattered about the floor
Swami


  

Answers


2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
covering the ground


Explanation:
HTH

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 2003-04-03 19:32:35 (GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

carpeting with leaves

Oxford Dic.

HTH :-)

JH Trads
United States
Local time: 07:35
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in pair: 915
Login to enter a peer comment (or grade)

2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
carpeting the ground


Explanation:
that's it.


Autum leaves carpeting the ground.


Marian Greenfield
Local time: 07:35
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 14617

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Consult Couture
48 mins
Login to enter a peer comment (or grade)

4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
covering the soil as a carpet; carpeting


Explanation:
Espero que sirva

afsdfds
Argentina
Local time: 08:35
PRO pts in pair: 35
Login to enter a peer comment (or grade)

4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +3
the ground was carpeted with autumn leaves


Explanation:
hope it helps

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 2003-04-03 19:42:27 (GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

*********Another option: the ground was covered with a blanket of autumn leaves*******

50\'s - [ Traduzca esta página ]
... for Jack Lord actually was a path in the woods in Woodstock, NY One day Jack strolled
that path to its end – a sunlit clearing carpeted with autumn leaves. ...
www.jacklord.net/magazines/50\'s/whichj~1.htm - 11k - En caché - Páginas similares

ND Photo Gallery: chur06 - [ Traduzca esta página ]
Main Quad covered with a blanket of autumn leaves.
© 2001 by Robert F. Ringel. All rights reserved.
catholic.archives.nd.edu/ringel/chur06.htm - 1k - En caché - Páginas similares



--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 2003-04-03 19:44:00 (GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Newsday.com - Just Like Family - [ Traduzca esta página ]
... As weeks passed, and Joey Angelini\'s eggplants swelled untended under a blanket
of autumn leaves in his garden, and his tomatoes grew fat and red and finally ...
www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ ny-liwido25.story?coll=ny-top-headlines - 38k - En caché - Páginas similares



Luis Rey Ballesteros (Luiroi)
Local time: 05:35
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in pair: 3743

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  mbc
10 mins
agree  Consult Couture
46 mins
agree  Nikki Graham
2 hrs
Login to enter a peer comment (or grade)

5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
The autumn leaves like scattered about the floor


Explanation:
one way

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 2003-04-03 19:34:59 (GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Don\'t ask me why I thought floor! Mejor dicho, \"the autumn leaves lie scattered about the ground!

Swami
United States
Local time: 07:35
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 66
Login to enter a peer comment (or grade)

9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +3
weaving a tapestry on the floor


Explanation:
una opción algo poética...
"...allowing the leaves and seedpods to weave a tapestry on the forest floor, of browns and tans and beiges."



    Reference: http://www.azcentral.com/home/garden/articles/0220garden20.h...
Raquel Iglesias
Spain
Local time: 13:35
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in pair: 101

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Silvia Delgado Rushe Delgado: me gusta, es muy poetico pero... diria on the ground
8 mins
agree  William Stein: es muy bonito, pero "on the ground", como dijo el collega.
42 mins
agree  enebada
1 hr
Login to enter a peer comment (or grade)



Login or register (free and only takes a few minutes) to participate in this question.

You will also have access to many other tools and opportunities designed for those who have language-related jobs (or are passionate about them). Participation is free and the site has a strict confidentiality policy.

Return to KudoZ list

KudoZ™ translation help

The KudoZ network provides a framework for translators and others to assist each other with translations or explanations of terms and short phrases.

See also:
ProZ.com term search
Search millions of term translations