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Social Sciences - History / Argentine history | | Spanish term or phrase: en cuyo seno se anidaban los germenes de una crisis | hola
esta es una frase metafórica y me gustaría saber si hay algo parecido en inglés, o alguien puede ayudarme a darle una vuelta a la traducción.
la frase dice así: la gestión de gobierno dejaba de manifiesto los vicios del sistema en cuyo seno se anidaban los germenes de una crisis
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| | within which a latent crisis was brewing | Explanation:
Personally, I'd get away from 'core' or 'heart', this is a somewhat overblown construction that one also finds in FR, and I think is best avoided in modern EN.
NB: The word order may need changing, depending on how you phrase the rest of the sentence
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I also thing 'was brewing' helps get away from any inference of its being a transitive verb, which is very likely, except with certain specific constructions.
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Regarding 'seno', which I advocate omitting anyway, do let's remember that in this sort of figurative useage, 'bosom' is often more apposite in EN than 'breast'.
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Many apologies for failing to credit David H. with the first mention of 'latent', which I subsequently incorporated into my own suggestion, which is of course only subtly (but I think importantly) different from his own suggestion. |
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Tony M
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8 mins confidence:  peer agreement (net): -2 where the seeds/germ/spark/core of a (coming) crisis brewed/nested
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where the seeds/germ/sparks/core of a (coming) crisis were brewing/nested
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11 mins confidence: with the seeds of a crisis (festering) at its core
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"festering" is very strong and you could put "latent" as an alternative
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or: brewing
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as a crisis normally "brews" in English
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so "brewing at/in its core"
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"in its core" is better
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7 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +2 in which the seeds of an impending crisis had taken root
Explanation:
If you want to maintain the 'seeds' metaphor.
Ederney Community Notices for Ederney and County Fermanagh
ederney.com/cnb_notices.php?gid=79&cntr_id=48&nid=350Cached
17 Oct 2011 – By now, the ***seeds had taken root** and would flourish in years to cone. The end of '33 and '34 were comparatively quiet years in Ederney ...
The world's game: a history of soccer - Google Books Result
books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0252067185...Bill Murray, William J. Murray - 1998 - Sports & Recreation - 218 pages
Certainly once ***the seeds had taken root*** and the game was firmly planted, the British influence became nearly — but never totally — irrelevant. It was the ...
Social care funding and the NHS: ***an impending crisis***? - The King's ...
www.kingsfund.org.uk/publications/social_care_funding.htmlC...
17 Mar 2011 – Social care funding has increased in real terms for the past decade, but this new paper examines the trends in spending and suggests there ...
Holyrood magazine | impending crisis
www.holyrood.com/articles/tag/impending-crisis/Cached
7 Dec 2009 – Some view it anxiously as an **impending crisis**, a ticking timebomb set to detonate within the next two decad... Continue reading. ...
| Lisa McCarthy
Spain
Local time: 04:29
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PRO pts in category: 32
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7 hrs confidence: in whose breast the seeds of a crisis were sown
Explanation:
another option
| Barbara L Pavlik
United Kingdom
Local time: 03:29
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2 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +11 within which a latent crisis was brewing
Explanation:
Personally, I'd get away from 'core' or 'heart', this is a somewhat overblown construction that one also finds in FR, and I think is best avoided in modern EN.
NB: The word order may need changing, depending on how you phrase the rest of the sentence
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Note added at 5 hrs (2012-01-10 07:03:04 GMT)
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I also thing 'was brewing' helps get away from any inference of its being a transitive verb, which is very likely, except with certain specific constructions.
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Note added at 10 hrs (2012-01-10 11:38:51 GMT)
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Regarding 'seno', which I advocate omitting anyway, do let's remember that in this sort of figurative useage, 'bosom' is often more apposite in EN than 'breast'.
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Note added at 13 hrs (2012-01-10 15:30:48 GMT)
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Many apologies for failing to credit David H. with the first mention of 'latent', which I subsequently incorporated into my own suggestion, which is of course only subtly (but I think importantly) different from his own suggestion.
| Tony M
France
Local time: 04:29
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 8
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