Aug 27, 2013 11:42
11 yrs ago
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Italian term
United Kingdom
a peso
Italian to English
Art/Literary
Poetry & Literature
Story for teenagers
not seen this before, could it be some kind of idiom, or did I miss something?
Stremati dal freddo, fatica e fame, N e i suoi genitori furono caricati sul motoscafo a peso, insieme ad altre anime in pena scappate per miraculo alla furia del mare e all'incuria di uomini senza scrupoli.
Stremati dal freddo, fatica e fame, N e i suoi genitori furono caricati sul motoscafo a peso, insieme ad altre anime in pena scappate per miraculo alla furia del mare e all'incuria di uomini senza scrupoli.
Proposed translations
(English)
| 3 +6 | bodily |
Sabrina Bruna
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| 3 +5 | Leave it out |
Marco Solinas
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| 5 | heaved out |
Leanne Young
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| 1 | packed like sardines |
Fiona Grace Peterson
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Proposed translations
+6
14 mins
Sabrina Bruna
Italy
Italy
Native in Italian
Works in field
Italy
Law, marketing, medicine/pharmacy
Native in: Italian 
Works in: English to Italian, French to Italian, Italian to English, and 3 more.
Related KudoZ points
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4
Selected
bodily
I think "a peso" is a typo, it should be "di peso": "... were lifted bodily on the motorboat"
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thanks to all, I would have left it out but it sounded OK to me in the end. Charles"
14 mins
Fiona Grace Peterson
Italy
Italy
Native in English
Works in field
Italy
Just what the doctor ordered
Native in: English (Variant: UK)
Works in: Italian to English
Related KudoZ points
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44
packed like sardines
Hi Charles,
not many Ghits; this is the idea I get from your context and from current events of refugees arriving in Sicily by boat.
Just a guess, as my confidence level shows :-)
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Note added at 16 mins (2013-08-27 11:58:49 GMT)
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Found this... "caricati a peso d'oro":
"Il fenomeno dei clandestini scaricati dai tir, è sempre più preoccupante in quanto è chiaro che nasconde un traffico di disperati caricati a peso d'oro per raggiungere il nostro paese e proseguire poi verso nord."
http://gazzettadimodena.gelocal.it/cronaca/2010/11/02/news/d...
not many Ghits; this is the idea I get from your context and from current events of refugees arriving in Sicily by boat.
Just a guess, as my confidence level shows :-)
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Note added at 16 mins (2013-08-27 11:58:49 GMT)
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Found this... "caricati a peso d'oro":
"Il fenomeno dei clandestini scaricati dai tir, è sempre più preoccupante in quanto è chiaro che nasconde un traffico di disperati caricati a peso d'oro per raggiungere il nostro paese e proseguire poi verso nord."
http://gazzettadimodena.gelocal.it/cronaca/2010/11/02/news/d...
+5
1 hr
Marco Solinas
Native in Italian
&
English
Works in field
Accurate, professional translations
Native in: English 
, Italian
Works in: Italian to English, French to English
Related KudoZ points
:
24
Leave it out
"were lifted" or "were heaved" conveys the meaning
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Leanne Young
13 mins
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| agree |
Barbara Carrara
34 mins
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| agree |
Lara Barnett
1 hr
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| agree |
philgoddard
1 hr
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| agree |
JudyC
3 hrs
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1 hr
heaved out
please don't leave this out ...
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