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Conges terminology question
160 months ago
Carlos Pablo MIGUES-LABANCA (a guest user) asked this question:
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Language pair: |
English > Spanish |
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Subject: |
Other |
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Level of diffculty: |
Easy / medium |
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Word or term in question: |
THE TRIM PERFECTION |
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Context: |
Today he could take no pleasure in the trim perfection of Colbert Road, the plain trees |
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Keywords: |
that shaded the promenade beside the River Ling... It is part of a novel. I would appreciate an explanation in English too. Thanx a lot, folks. |
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The answer of Peonia Kempenich |
perfección esmerada o pulcra
My comment:
Cuando visité a Beverly Hills en California, me refiero a Rodeo Drive (solo he ido una sola vez), lo que me impactó fueron las calles, casas y jardines INMACULADOS del vecindario (qué prosaica se oye esta palabra para designar a Beverly Hills). Nada, no hay ni una pizca de polvo por ningún lado, las casas perfectamente limpias y pintadas, ¡perfectas! Los jardines... perfectamente manicurados, como si podaran el pasto y los árboles cada hora para que nunca haya ni una sola hoja fuera de su lugar.
La perfección es -por antonomasia- lo máximo, pero en este caso para enfatizar aun más la cosa, se habla de una perfección mejorada, una perfección perfecta -válgase la redundancia.
En mi opinión, esto corresponde a la figura literaria o retórica de la hipérbole.
"hasta la máxima perfección"...
My references:
trim (adjective) - pleasingly neat or smart in appearance: trim lawns.
Hipérbole
Figura retórica consistente en ofrecer una visión desproporcionada de una realidad, amplificándola o disminuyéndola. Es exageración.
"That means a suit tailored with trim perfection"
"Outside Louisville is Camelot Gardens, a fictional but symbolic development and the sort of expensive tract housing whose occupants are defined by their lawns. The plots are neurotically and ceaselessly nurtured into an almost unnatural state of trim perfection."
"Then Roz plucked her eyebrows to trim perfection and began her tasteful application of make up."
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