"me viró la boca"
English translation: it made my mouth pucker
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| na | "it twisted my mouth" |
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| na | It made my mouth pucker |
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| na | It caused my mouth to twist (or contort). |
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"it twisted my mouth" Explanation: to twist= torcer, retorcer, desfigurar la cara o las facciones. Saludos afectuosos de OSO ¶:^) Simon & Schuster's |
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It made my mouth pucker Explanation: Hubby says if it's "twisting" someone's mouth, it's making the mouth pucker. (hubby's bilingual...) |
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It caused my mouth to twist (or contort). Explanation: The main issue here is interpreting/translation methodology. If I am interpreting or translating a patient's statement, then I am bound to faithfully deliver the patient’s statement as stated, regardless of the “correct” way of describing the said condition. The clinician may choose to describe the drug reaction in a variety of ways, depending on its exact nature. Most of the time, it is a spasm that affects the jaw muscles, causing the jaw to jerk or twist. But I would not let that knowledge compromise my faithful translation of the patient’s statement. This is the translation/interpreting practice that we follow here at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, and which we advocate. Fuad 10 years at M.D. Anderson |
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