18:20 Mar 14, 2011 |
Italian to English translations [PRO] Art/Literary / Concorso letterario | |||||||
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4 +1 | see my suggestion for the whole sentence |
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4 | sound sensations |
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see my suggestion for the whole sentence Explanation: You haven't really explained the relevance of this quote and precisely what he's talking about, but here's my suggestion: When I'm confronted by the grandeur of nature, I always associate it with sound. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 12 mins (2011-03-14 18:33:05 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Or "I always feel that I hear sound," or anything along those lines. |
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sound sensations Explanation: Nature for him is a kind of 'sound imprinting'...(Medicine of the Future -Exploring New Gateways To Healing With Sound by Karen Lynch) Look 'sensation' and 'impressione' up in the dictionaries, they prompt this solution sensation (Merriam-webster) a : a mental process (as seeing, hearing, or smelling) resulting from the immediate external stimulation of a sense organ often as distinguished from a conscious awareness of the sensory process — TRECCANI b. L’effetto, l’impronta che la realtà esterna determina, col suo intervento diretto o indiretto, sulla coscienza; e quindi ogni forma di esperienza, conoscitiva o emotiva, in cui la coscienza appaia colpita dallo stimolo esterno, e presenti rispetto ad esso un atteggiamento di passività: Reference: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sensation Reference: http://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/impressione/ |
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