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Spanish to English translations [PRO] Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / Lírica contemporánea | |||||||
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perceiving myself with the snout thrust upward, as if trying to sniff the arrival of spring Explanation: perceiving myself with the snout thrust upward, as if trying to sniff the arrival of spring perceive - To become aware of directly through any of the senses, especially sight or hearing. to sniff - To inhale a short, audible breath through the nose, as in smelling something. (http://www.answers.com) |
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seeing me sniffing the wind as if to know whether spring had come Explanation: does the translation have to contain a specific number of syllables to fill the line of lyrics? |
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with my nose in the air Explanation: seeing me with my nose in the air, as if trying to smell/detect the spring I Can Smell Spring in the Air! So what does Spring smell like? Maybe not what you would expect. Around here long before the spring peepers make their first chirp, before the robins return, before the outdoors begins to smell of thawing earth there are two sure signs that spring is on its way. http://www.localharvest.org/blog/26423/entry/i_can_smell_spr... Do I Smell Spring In The Air? http://www.betterphoto.com/gallery/big.asp?photoID=6227096&c... "...Tasha, on the other hand, doesn’t mind the cold. Her nose is awake long before I can detect spring in the air. I’ve seen her plunge her whole head into a foot of snow in order to smell the tracks of some small animal, laid down weeks before..." she's a dog, by he way.../ http://donskiff.com/geometry_of_spring.htm Its a Greyt Day: March 2009 Do I detect spring in the air? 0 comments. Labels: Jori. Thursday, March 19, 2009. Happy Birthday Sweetie. Today would have been your 15th birthday. ... greyhoundgardens.blogspot.com/2009_03_01_archive.html Pages .A Nose For All Seasons .Sniffer May Detect Spring, Winter ... Many of the .persons who think they have detected a smell of spring in air during the last two weeks prob ably will claim that they can smell a hint of ... news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat...id...sjid... snout doesn't sound right in this context - it sounds disparaging, etc. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 50 mins (2009-08-01 12:21:38 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- woops - didn't close the italics properly... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 53 mins (2009-08-01 12:24:08 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- I missed the fact that it was lyrics, so would also like to know the answer to Deborah's question |
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