English translation of "rivestire il carattere" - "been (like)"

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155 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:	rivestire il carattere
Context:	Avevo capito che la spedizione in America avrebbe al massimo potuto rivestire il carettere
Keywords:	...di una breve gita. Ma nulla di più. Quanto al lavoro presso un giornale americano era evidente che mio padre non lo avrebbe mai preso in seria considerazione...The protagonist's thought about going to the United States to undertake a journalism internship while his father, who he's attending to in Rome, gets sicker and sicker. The protagonist feels that his father probably never took his interest in becoming a journalist as a serious option for his son.

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155 months ago

wrote:

been (like)

My comment:

it's just a fancy way of saying "to be (like)..."
I realized the journey to America would, at best, have been a short trip/vacation. No more than that.

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