English translation of "cada una vivía por su lado" - ""each one led her own life"..."

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140 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	Spanish > English
Subject:	General
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	cada una vivía por su lado
Context:	Olvidé mencionar el domicilio de las hermanas. Como ya dije, cada una vivía por su lado. No existía esa necesidad entre ellas. No les importaba su vida cotidiana.

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140 months ago

wrote:

each one had her separate own life

140 months ago

María P. Álvarez wrote:

"each one led her own life"...

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140 months ago

Clara Fernández wrote:

...each one kept to herself.

My comment:

To me it is not clear from the context if they lived independently or if they were together but each kept to herself. The phrase "el domicilio de las hermanas" leads me to believe that it was only one home.

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140 months ago

wrote:

Me parece que es la buena interpretqción.

140 months ago

Charles Ferguson wrote:

each of them lived independently

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