English translation of "sottrazione delle differenze" - "eliminating/eliminated the differences"

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152 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:	sottrazione delle differenze
Context:	Fu dopo il mio ingreso al circolo nel 1934 che il poker venne meno, quando molti fra gli..
Keywords:	...elementi principali furono convogliati verso le partite in casa mia che, a loro modo di vedere, rappresentavano un duplice vantaggio: quello del ricambio dei giocatori abituali con elementi nuovi di passaggio, e queloo della sottrazione delle differenze alla curiosità morbosa di molti soci che, ogni mattina, si precipitavano dal l'impiegato al gioco per conoscere i dettagli delle vincite e delle perdite avvenute la sera precedente...Wins and losses in card games where betting is going on.

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152 months ago

wrote:

lessen(ing)/reduce the differences

My comment:

you cannot totally remove them but reduce them

152 months ago

Josephine Cassar wrote:

lessen(ing)/reduce the differences

My comment:

you cannot totally remove them but reduce them

152 months ago

Josephine Cassar wrote:

eliminating/eliminated the differences

My comment:

Tricky sentence! My (slightly hesitant) interpretation is this: One of the advantages was.... and the other was that, to the curious onlookers, the card sessions at X's house put everyone on an equal footing (eliminated whatever differences existed between the members of the club).

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