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159 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:

gli è che...erano ammaestrati fin troppo

Context:

Commisi un errore parlando chiaro con Toeplitz, il quale non perdonò la mia assenza di...

Keywords:

...servilismo, e mi creò successivamente una stampa di pazzo e di violento presso i suoi collaboratori, uno dei quali, il dottor Mattioli, divenuto suo successore, ha perso molto del suo tempo ripetendo come un fedele pappagallo le stereotipate critiche emesse dal grande Giuseppe (Toeplitz). Eppure i Dolcetti, i Goldschimdt, gli Anglici, ed altri esponenti della Comit di Milano, non mancavano di caratteristiche segnate Mammone e Cupido, atte ad interessare più di un pappagallo ammaestrato. Gli è che, a Milano, i pappagalli erano ammaestrati fin troppo.

 

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The fact is that, in Milan, [the] parrots were only too well trained/drilled.

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The fact is that, in Milan, "parrots" like Mattioli were more than well trained.

159 months ago

giulianoscarpa  See profile wrote:

The fact is that, in Milan, parrots were even too well domesticated

My comment:

could be domesticated or trained, up to you.

159 months ago

giulianoscarpa  See profile wrote:

However, parrots in Milan were tamed/trained even too much

My comment:

Gli è che (forma arcaica) = si dà il caso che, sta di fatto che, evidentemente però