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159 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:

Spanish > English

Subject:

Other

Level of diffculty:

Easy / medium

Word or term in question:

esquelético y casi injusto fin del cuento

Context:

una semilla de sésamo cae, y tu fe se viene abajo. Fin del cuento, esquelético y casi...

Keywords:

...injusto fin del cuento.

 

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159 months ago

Vicki Santamaria  See profile wrote:

a skimpy, almost unfair, outline of an ending.

My comment:

Just a suggestion, to try to keep the same poetic tone of the Spanish.

My references:

Roget's International Thesaurus

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159 months ago

Vicki Santamaria  See profile wrote:

a laconic / succint / concise and nearly unjust story ending

My comment:

"Esquelético" does NOT mean "skinny", "slim" or "very thin"; it means "very brief" or "very short", I believe.

Comments by other colleagues on this answer:

159 months ago

  See profile wrote:

...because the ending lacks "flesh", i.e.: words, substance.

159 months ago

Mauricio N.  See profile wrote:

poor and almost unfair ending to the story

159 months ago

Margarita Viada  See profile wrote:

a meager and almost unfair end of story

159 months ago

Margarita Viada  See profile wrote:

an extremely thin and almost unfair ending to the story

My comment:

"skeletal" might be all right, but "thin" is often used to describe insufficient description...