English translation of "una sbornia da ragazzaccio viziato" - "an expensive hangover for a spoiled brat"

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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:	una sbornia da ragazzaccio viziato
Context:	Sarei stato in America. Facendo che cosa? Pagando conti d'albergo e spese varie. E...
Keywords:	...raccogliendo che cosa? Quale promessa per il futuro? Prima di accettare la sconfitta bisognava tentare la prova. Quel viaggio era stato una parentesi. Una parentesi stupida. Una sbornia un po' costosa da ragazzaccio viziato...Thoughts of a young man in his twenties after he has come back to Rome, after visiting his old money relatives in the United States and failing to make much of a go of it at writing for newspapers in the United States. A failed dream.

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155 months ago

giulianoscarpa wrote:

the drinking binge of a spoilt tear-away

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155 months ago

giulianoscarpa wrote:

thinking again, it sounds better as: a spoilt tear-away's somewhat expensive drinking binge

155 months ago

giulianoscarpa wrote:

An expensive spoilt child's fantasy

155 months ago

Robert Tucker wrote:

a rather expensive intoxicated dream of a spoiled brat

My comment:

"sbornia" is more the state of intoxication than its consequences
http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=119120
http://www.wordreference.com/iten/sbornia

155 months ago

Robert Tucker wrote:

an expensive hangover for a spoiled brat

My comment:

nothing much else possible

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155 months ago

giulianoscarpa wrote:

I think "costly" would work better here, since his behavior in America cost him his job at The New York Times. Thanks.

155 months ago

giulianoscarpa wrote:

I see, true, costly fits better according to context you put in now. Are you writing american English? As behaviour would have a U in UK English but without in US english

155 months ago

giulianoscarpa wrote:

I see, true, costly fits better according to context you put in now. Are you writing american English? As behaviour would have a U in UK English but without in US english

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