Mar 9, 2010 21:25
14 yrs ago
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Spanish term
Works in: Spanish to English
es lo poco que
Spanish to English
Art/Literary
Poetry & Literature
Dentro de cuatro días llegará a Tu Océano con uno de mis soldaditos dormido sobre sus labios. Y se dirá, sonriéndome: "Es lo poco que hace que este hombre iba al centro del sol cada mañana con un puñado de soldados de plomo. Es lo poco que hace que en el centro del sol, cada mañana, su corazón era un puñado de soldados de plomo entre gallos"
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Carolina Brito
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it is the small thing that makes this man go
I see it this way
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Tatiana Voloshchuk
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It's what
in this context
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Barbara Cochran, MFA
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It didn't take too much for this man to go
HTH
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Not long ago, this man used to go to... each morning
because the past tense is used (iba, era) I understand "Es lo poco que hace que" as "desde hace poco" (a short while ago)
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Sebastian Wasserzug
: It is indeed very ambiguous, but I take it in this sense too, only much stronger: “Just a little while ago” or something a lot more colloquial actually (almost ungrammatical/wrong but that people say) that I cannot/could think of…
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thanks so much Sebastian, hope you're enjoying your weekend! - Deborah
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It´s how much he needs to...
Good luck
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Carol Gullidge
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poetically precise prose with... panache
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it was just for this that...; this was sufficient to...
i.e., this (and nothing more) was all the incentive he needed to...
... this was all it took for him to...
he needed no more than this to...
he did it for this reason alone
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makes sense of it... for some of the above suggestions, you'd need to change the text around a little, but this shouldn't prove too problematic
... this was all it took for him to...
he needed no more than this to...
he did it for this reason alone
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makes sense of it... for some of the above suggestions, you'd need to change the text around a little, but this shouldn't prove too problematic
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