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English translation: [youth always] thrives on dreams

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Spanish term or phrase:	ilusión por alimento
English translation:	[youth always] thrives on dreams
Entered by:	Beatriz Candil Garcia

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05:41 Dec 29, 2011

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Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature

Spanish term or phrase: ilusión por alimento

Trying to find the English equivalent to this quote, help appreciated thanks, there must be a translation on the internet already but just cant find it...

La juventud siempre tiene la ilusión por alimento.
DESCARTES

Beatriz Candil Garcia KudoZ activity Questions: 4068 (24 open) (1 without valid answers) (17 closed without grading) Answers: 347
Local time: 07:21

[youth always] thrives on dreams

Explanation:
Una manera para decirlo, aunque no lo encuentro tampoco.

Por supuesto, nunca traduciría "ilusión" en "illusion"

Selected response from:

Daniel Frisano Paulon
Italy
Local time: 07:22

Grading comment

thx
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

3 +2

[youth always] thrives on dreams

Daniel Frisano Paulon

Youth lives on hope

Jane Martin

youth thrives on enthusiasm

NinaEF

4 -1

nurtures on dreams/desires//is nurturing in dreams...

Anne Smith Campbell

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8 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

[youth always] thrives on dreams

Explanation:
Una manera para decirlo, aunque no lo encuentro tampoco.

Por supuesto, nunca traduciría "ilusión" en "illusion"

Daniel Frisano Paulon
Italy
Local time: 07:22
Native speaker of:

Italian,

Friulian
PRO pts in category: 12

Grading comment

thx

Notes to answerer

Asker: gracias...no yo tampoco, habia pensado enthusiasm...muchas gracias y feliz año, me gusta tu sugerencia :)

4 hrs confidence:

youth thrives on enthusiasm

Explanation:
Keeping in mind that Descartes was a rationalist, I suggest you stay with "enthusiasm" - it more clearly maintains the "earthly" sense basic to his thinking, and it sustains the idea that although the present may be difficult and the future unknown, life moves inevitably forward (recurrent themes in his work). And precisely because young people do not consider consequences (in fact are often incapable of imagining them), they are able to throw themselves forward with joy and ENTHUSIASM - they can live on this alone.

NinaEF
Spain
Local time: 07:22
Native speaker of:

English

20 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): -1

nurtures on dreams/desires//is nurturing in dreams...

Explanation:
"nature vs. nurture"... Descartes.

Anne Smith Campbell
Spain
Local time: 07:22
Native speaker of:

Spanish,

English
PRO pts in category: 4

5 days confidence:

Youth lives on hope

Explanation:
There is a french proverb 'Youth lives on hope, old age on remembrance'. Could this be from Descartes?

Reference: http://www.searchquotes.com/quotation/Youth_lives_on_hope%2C...

Jane Martin
Local time: 06:22
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 2

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