English translation of "ambienti più delicati" - "most sensitive “community”"

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145 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:	ambienti più delicati
Context:	Ad un tratto, scorsi la mia lettera a John Evans. Era aperta. "È vostra questa lettera?"..
Keywords:	...mi chise. "Sì, certo," dissi sorpreso e preocupato. "Cè qualcosa che no va?" chiesi a mia volta facendomi corragio. "In verità, vi sono molte cose che non vanno," asserì con forza. "Questo Evans è un personaggio un po' equivoco." "Fino a prova contraria è un cittadino americano che gode la fiducia degli ambienti più delicati del suo paese," dissi contono fermo...John Evans is a friend of the protagonist, who is being interrofated by an English sergeant. John Evans works for the American Secret Service.

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145 months ago

wrote:

higher strata of society/higher echelons of society

My comment:

I think he was among the leaders in his country, or protagonist was making him out to be one, not to show he belonged to the Secret Service; kind of literal meaning but according to your text

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145 months ago

wrote:

or more sensitive parts of society/the community as I now realise the indirect meaning is that they belonged to the american secret service-a pun, or my suggestions in inverted commas

145 months ago

wrote:

or more sensitive parts of society/the community as I now realise the indirect meaning is that they belonged to the american secret service-a pun, or my suggestions in inverted commas

145 months ago

Josephine Cassar wrote:

higher strata of society/higher echelons of society

My comment:

I think he was among the leaders in his country, or protagonist was making him out to be one, not to show he belonged to the Secret Service; kind of literal meaning but according to your text

145 months ago

Claude Le Frapper wrote:

most sensitive “community”

My comment:

I'd put “community” in quotes as it is short for "intelligence community".

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