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154 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:

Italian > English

Subject:

Other

Level of diffculty:

Easy / medium

Word or term in question:

a colmare il disagio morale della questione

Context:

A colmare il disagio morale della questione, arrivò una lettera di Josephine a Marjorie,..

Keywords:

...nella quale scrisse testualmente: "Se tuo marito spera di trovare modo di vivacchiare soltanto, non dico di vivere largamente, nell'America di oggi, con le sue idee politiche, con le sue abitudini europee, con la sua mania di dedicare alle fantasticherie, scritte e orali, la maggior parte del suo tempo, egli sta inseguendo una pericolosa illusione...The wife wants to live in the lap of luxury in Rome, while the husband wants to try out the life of a writer in the United States, which, in the end, might spell financial disaster for the couple.

 

 

The answer of   See profile was rated best

as if morale wasn't low enough on this issue

My comment:

colmare here means to add "the last straw". As if morale wasn't low enough on this issue, a letter from Josephine arrived..."