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desarmada, el animal tiene una desarmada inocencia infantil

English translation: vulnerable


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Spanish term or phrase:desarmada
English translation:vulnerable
Entered by: chica nueva
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01:47 Jun 4, 2011
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Art/Literary - Journalism / género: ensayo
Spanish term or phrase: desarmada, el animal tiene una desarmada inocencia infantil
Se ven rancias imágenes documentales de los primeros años sesenta en los que un chimpancé está atado a un asiento anatómico con expresión de miedo mientras le conectan electrodos al corazón y a la cabeza. Rodeado de aparatos y de batas blancas, el animal tiene una desarmada inocencia infantil, una mezcla de pasiva aceptación y de alarma. (Antonio Muñez Molina, "Nuestros semejantes")

http://books.google.cl/books?id=iW5xqNhJowYC&lpg=RA1-PA27&dq...
chica nueva
Local time: 19:03
the animal has a guileless/unguarded, childlike innocence
Explanation:
You could say 'unguarded', but 'guileless' is more typically collocated with 'childlike'.

The Fox asleep was a breathing portrait of guileless innocence. He slept on his right side, legs doubled up a little, hands folded together underneath the ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0060930055...

Only children who are very young have guileless innocence ,they reveal their true emotions and feeling. They are not hesitant about voicing their discomfort ...
www.urch.com/.../2185-033-creating-appealing-image-has-beco...

May 12, 2011 ... guilelessness, childlike innocence and crystal-like purity of heart have ever been the common attributes of all the saints. ...
www.scribd.com/.../BE-SIMPLE-AND-GUILELESS-HUMBLE-AND-ENDUR...
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5harmless / childlike innocenceConstantinos Faridis
4"a chimpanzee is as naïve as a child,"Rosmu
4the animal has a guileless/unguarded, childlike innocence
Muriel Vasconcellos


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harmless / childlike innocence


Explanation:
essays
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... seem to suggest not only an eternal adolescence and a childish innocence, but also meekness. ... (Fritz 338) This is when the inner Pardoner, the disarmed child, ... He has built himself a wall out of any sort of power he thinks he has. ... blames his own expulsion from innocence, from the bliss of holy work, ...
www.pinnacle-creations.com/.../pardoner2.htm - Προσωρινά αποθηκευμένη
Overcoming the carnivorous nature
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He deeply loved the animals he was committed to protecting from poachers, ... But it wouldn't have been the first time that unconditional love or childlike innocence—conditions of human ... So I cannot help but feel that the rhino was “disarmed,” and his own spiritual, harmless innocence revealed, by the ...
www.spirituality.com/article.jhtml?...

here
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Has something just happened, or is it about to take place? ... Although at first sight her animals appear to inhabit a world of childlike innocence, ...
www.rebeccadoughty.com/artist/here.html

Constantinos Faridis
Greece
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Native speaker of: Greek
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9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
the animal has a guileless/unguarded, childlike innocence


Explanation:
You could say 'unguarded', but 'guileless' is more typically collocated with 'childlike'.

The Fox asleep was a breathing portrait of guileless innocence. He slept on his right side, legs doubled up a little, hands folded together underneath the ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0060930055...

Only children who are very young have guileless innocence ,they reveal their true emotions and feeling. They are not hesitant about voicing their discomfort ...
www.urch.com/.../2185-033-creating-appealing-image-has-beco...

May 12, 2011 ... guilelessness, childlike innocence and crystal-like purity of heart have ever been the common attributes of all the saints. ...
www.scribd.com/.../BE-SIMPLE-AND-GUILELESS-HUMBLE-AND-ENDUR...

Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 00:03
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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"a chimpanzee is as naïve as a child,"


Explanation:
Surrounded by medical equipment/ machines and white coats, a chimpanzee is as naïve as a child, a mixture of passive acceptance and a sense of alarm.

Rosmu
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