Oct 18, 2012 11:18
11 yrs ago
English term

all bare sand

English to Italian Other Poetry & Literature
Sentence or paragraph where the term occurs, type of document (legal document, formal letter, etc.), target audience, source and target country, dialects, etcOut in the courtyard—all bare sand—the light is a kind of light-bulb twilight. An old babe is rocking herself back and
forth on a straight chair and putting one hand out in front from time to time and pulling it in toward her bosom.
It seems clear enough to me. “A slot machine?” I say to the nurse, but she says there is no telling.
“ ... and yet the same aggressive types are necessary to build a frontier town, and Las Vegas is a frontier town,
certainly by any psychological standard,” Dr.————— is saying. “They’ll undertake anything and they’ll
accomplish it. The building here has been incredible. They don’t seem to care what they’re up against, so they do
Change log

Oct 18, 2012 11:36: Danila Moro changed "Field (specific)" from "General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters" to "Poetry & Literature"

Proposed translations

+5
18 mins
Selected

nient'altro che sabbia

Se non ho capito male, si riferisce all'aspetto del cortile
Peer comment(s):

agree AdamiAkaPataflo : con l'inciso ci sta bene :-)
53 mins
grazie!
agree Francesco Badolato
1 hr
grazie!
agree Sara Negro
2 hrs
grazie!
agree Yaotl Altan
3 hrs
grazie!
agree MariaGrazia Pizzoli
1 day 2 hrs
grazie!
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
17 mins

tutta spiaggia nuda/priva di vegetazione

una possibilità
Peer comment(s):

neutral AdamiAkaPataflo : mi è scappato il dito, pardon - si parla di un cortile... :-) //ah, ecco, era la spiaggia che non mi tornava... ;-)))
2 mins
perché un cortile non può avere la sabbia?? centro non in città.....//volevo scrivere sabbia.... non spiaggia, si vede che ho voglia di mare!
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+1
20 mins

di sola sabbia

altra variante
Peer comment(s):

agree Monia Di Martino
10 mins
ti ringrazio!
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2 days 22 hrs

sabbia, solo sabbia

un'alternativa
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