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Sep 26, 2009 23:34
14 yrs ago
Spanish term

convenios (in this context)

Spanish to English Art/Literary Textiles / Clothing / Fashion
that renewed the agreements in Mother Nature's repertoire? It sounds weird to me ...

Porque sí que se requerían horas y meses y años para imaginar o idear trajes esplendorosos con, digamos, abundancia de chaquira y lentejuelas y mezclas de colores de brillantez rotunda que desembocaban en un diseño irrepetible y que renovaban los convenios del repertorio de la naturaleza.

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Patricia Rosas (asker) Oct 1, 2009:
Apologies for closing without awarding points, but I've decided to go with "renewing the covenants in nature's repertoire" because I don't want to stray too far from the original.

Proposed translations

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harmonies

I'm thinking it means that the inventiveness behind the evolving designs ends up coming full circle and reflecting the harmony of colour and form found in nature. Back to square one as it were...
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agree bcsantos
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conventions

Thus, in some sense, signs are natural conventions, as well as conventions of nature. Third, those who have reason for confidence in language must also be ...

Dutch poets were deeply influenced by Petrarchan conventions of nature and love, which reached them via the French Pléiade (a prominent group of ...
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Spanish term (edited): y que renovaban los convenios del repertorio de la naturaleza.

and that continued to faithfully reflect patterns in nature, albeit in new and different ways.

Perhaps this will be of some use. I think you definitely want to stay away from using "Mother Nature" in this translation....

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