English translation of "iluminados por una claridad" - "as if lit up by a certain luminosity"

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60 months ago

Barbara R Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	Spanish > English
Subject:	General
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	iluminados por una claridad
Context:	Estuvo largo rato entretenida así, paseando la mirada por el techo, por las paredes y por el suelo como si estuviesen iluminados por una claridad. A guy has just proposed to a naive young woman who is now lying in bed in the dark.

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60 months ago

CMD wrote:

to be of brightly translucent clarity

My comment:

[here] everything appeared in a brightly translucent clarity

60 months ago

Charles Ferguson wrote:

as if lit up by a certain luminosity

My comment:

I am trying to introduce a certain note of increased intensity by using a learned word "luminosity".The naive young lady would be experiencing a degree of tension in the circumstances.

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60 months ago

Ffion Marianne Moyle wrote:

I agree this is a good answer

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