Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
los orondos hombres del Consejo de Hamelín
English translation:
the smug/pompous men of the Hamelin Council
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los orondos hombres del Consejo de Hamelín
This is from the story about The flautist of Hamelin. Here is the full paragraph:
Y dicho esto, los orondos hombres del Consejo de Hamelín le volvieron la espalda profiriendo grandes carcajadas.
Furioso por la avaricia y la ingratitud de los hamelineses, el flautista, al igual que hiciera el día anterior, tocó una dulcísima melodía una y otra vez, insistentemente. Pero esta vez no eran los ratones quienes le seguían, sino los niños de la ciudad
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Proposed translations
the smug/pompous men of the Hamelin Council
(=grueso)[persona] potbellied, big-bellied; [vasija] rounded, potbellied
2(=satisfecho) smug, self-satisfied; (=pomposo) pompous
3(LAm) (=sereno) calm, serene
https://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=oro...
If you wanted to include the 'plump' you could maybe say 'the smug/pompous fat cats on the Hamelin Council'.
Also, re your translation, the plural of 'man' is not 'mens' but 'men'.
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ormiston
: Small quibble. The definite article sounds odd. Wouldn't you just say, e.g. Edinburgh Town Councilt
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Orkoyen (X)
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Thank you.
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Yvonne Gallagher
: 'the smug/pompous fat cats on the Hamelin Council'.
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Thank you. Yes I think ‘on’ is better.
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neilmac
: No quibbles with the article here...
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The big-wigs/ fat-heads on the Hamelin council
And with that said, the big wigs/ fat-headed/ pig-headed men on the Hamelin Council turned their backs on him with great howls of mocking laughter. Furious at the greed and ingratitude of the Hamelinese, the piper, as he had done the day before, played the sweetest melody over and over again, insistently. But this time it was not the mice that followed him, but the children of the city.
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"Big -wigs" and " fat-heads" are pejorative, and due to the historical nature of Grimms' Fairytales, I'd plump ( no pun intended!) for ' big wigs';
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the smug and self-satisfied Burghers of Hamelin
This is The Burgher's Chorale, the march of the townspeople: smug-sounding, self-satisfied, self-important. As the burghers approach the Piper, ...
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Andrew Bramhall
: Except it's the council representatives who are smug and self-satisfied, not the burghers themselves, but rather their elected representatives;
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neilmac
: Was thinking "burghers" myself, like the despotic Landburgher Gessler in the late 1950s series William Tell...
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the big shots/fat cats of the Hamelin Council
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Discussion
They have also an old movie about this.
Thanks for providing me with this information.
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