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59 months ago

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

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59 months ago

   wrote:

she raised her shapely full-blown bust

My comment:

I suppose the extract deals with a woman, given the context (silk clothes, tentadoras caderas...màs ensanchadas). I chose "full-blown" because otherwise the author would have used "lleno" instead of "pleno" .. The maiden has become a woman. I think that must be the meaning. As for "morbideces" I found a definition, not in a Spanish dictionary, but in a French one: morbidesse = délicatesse et souplesse dans le modelé des chairs. Perhaps I forgot to translate the idea of "souplesse" but I think the translation would have been too long.

Comments by other colleagues on this answer:

59 months ago

   wrote:

I've just read the remarks you made for CMD's translation. I don't know whether she lifted her breasts with her hands or if she just straightened the top of her body.

59 months ago

CMD   wrote:

sorry, that's just my answer to Barbara's question "lifted her breasts (with her hands)?

59 months ago

CMD   wrote:

I agree with you. it's just that I mean it's up to Barbara to decide because it's not so clear to me either. Far from me the idea of "stealing" your translations or your remarks. Happy new year by the way.

59 months ago

CMD   wrote:

Mais no, ici, il n'est pas du tout question de "piquer quoi que ce soit"; le problème qui se pose toujours (au moins pour moi), c'est plutôt l'interprétation et/ou le risque de surinterprétation face au peu de contexte dont on dispose. Et tout le monde (soit homme soit femme) "comprend" un passage différemment et/ou en ressent d'autres accentuation, perçoit et éprouve des différences selon ses propres expériences et connaissances. Donc et en fin de compte, il ne reste que de donner des "propositions" dont seule la personne posant la question peut en décider tout seule tout en considérant l'ensemble de son texte, son original et ceci en vue d'une solution appropriée. ... et finalement aussi de ma part, ce n'est pas encore trop tard: Bonne Année et mes sincères meilleurs vœux pour tous!

59 months ago

CMD   wrote:

I eventually tried to visualize the scene. And my conclusion is that she cannot lift her breasts with her hands and "palparse las caderas" at the same time. She sticks out her chest proudly while touching her hips, as if she were with arms akimbo.

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59 months ago

Charles Ferguson   wrote:

he raised the torso, all mottled and blotchy

My comment:

My first thoughts...

59 months ago

CMD   wrote:

to erect the soft [and/or tender] breasts

My comment:

morbidez f (pl. morbideces) : 1. softness 2. morbidity --

cf https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/morbidez#Spanish

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59 months ago

Vicki Santamaria   wrote:

This isn’t a good enough dictionary for doing translations. Also, a person would never “erect the breasts”. Only a penis gets erect.

59 months ago

CMD   wrote:

Sorry, but "wiktionary" (as Internet ref. here) refers to only different meanings of "morbidez, morbideces". "Webster's" (p. 340/my ref. here) points out 4 - 5 completely different meanings of "erect", among others "straight in posture, bearing, head etc.". Only at the end, specifically, you find "state of physiological erection".

59 months ago

CMD   wrote:

I had used "pushed up" in my working translation, to refer to what she did with her breasts.

59 months ago

CMD   wrote:

NB: push implies “application of force (by a body)” due to the Latin origin pulsare, pulsus = pp of pellere = to strike, to drive; therefore: push = “vigorous advance against obstacles”, “steady application of physical force in a direction away from the body”; to push = “to press with force, to use pressure, to move ahead by force”; push-up = conditioning exercise Another option: she straightened up her breasts ...?

59 months ago

CMD   wrote:

[IMO to push up: may lead to the fallacious association of push-up bra ...]

59 months ago

CMD   wrote:

"lifted her breasts (with her hands)?

59 months ago

CMD   wrote:

another option, why not: she (up)lifted her breasts cf https://www.leadinglady.com/blogs/archive/4-ways-to-naturally-lift-your-breasts (IMO without " with hands", because sometimes breasts are getting (up)lifted only by righting up/ straightening up and deeply breathing in)

59 months ago

Ffion Marianne Moyle   wrote:

raised her bust full of morbidities