confrontarsi (in this context)
English translation: challenges ... face up to
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| 4 +2 | the condition against which we must measure ourselves |
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| 4 +1 | challenges ... face up to |
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| 4 | face |
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| 3 | to confront |
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peer agreement (net): +1challenges ... face up to Explanation: "The condition of "solitude" is one of the most important challenges a man/person must face up to... " This is one way of doing it. Of course you might like to put just "solitude" instead of "the condition of solitude". |
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face Explanation: "confront and deal with or accept" (Oxford dictionary of English) |
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2 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +2
peer agreement (net): +2| la condizione con cui per l'uomo sia più importante confrontarsi the condition against which we must measure ourselves Explanation: not "Man". At least not in contemporary English, where we don't discriminate any more between men and women :) -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 34 mins (2009-02-03 10:38:34 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- and another thing: the Italian source text use of "l'uomo" in this particular piece, actually means "l'uomo e la donna" i.e. everybody. These days, in English, it's archaic to talk about "Man" when referring to the human race (but not in Italian, where women are still excluded from it). |
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