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Conges terminology question
154 months ago
Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:
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Italian > English |
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Other |
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Easy / medium |
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Word or term in question: |
a colmare il disagio morale della questione |
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Context: |
A colmare il disagio morale della questione, arrivò una lettera di Josephine a Marjorie,.. |
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...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. |
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to worsen the moral discomfort/dilemma of the situation
154 months ago
Giorgio Vellani 
wrote:
To bridge the moral discomfort of the metter, a letter came from ......
154 months ago
Giorgio Vellani
wrote:
In the depths of moral embarrassment arising from the matter (issue)
154 months ago
Giorgio Vellani
wrote:
and to crown it all/to crown the whole affair/to crown the hardship/inconvenience
My comment:
the last straw to break the camel's back, so to say; disagio=discomfort, embarrassment,uneasiness
Comments by other colleagues on this answer:
154 months ago
Josephine Cassar
wrote:
and to crown it all/to crown the whole affair/to crown the hardship/inconvenience
My comment:
the last straw to break the camel's back, so to say; disagio=discomfort, embarrassment,uneasiness
154 months ago
Josephine Cassar
wrote:
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..."
The asker rated this answer best
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