Translation Exercise for Beginners: Number 17
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So here is our sentence for Number 17:
"Vivir no es sólo existir
sino existir y crear
saber gozar y sufrir
y no dormir sin soñar
Descansar, es empezar a morir."
Gregorio Marañon
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Translation:
Living is not simply existing
rather existing and creating
it is knowing pleasure and suffering
and not sleeping without dreaming.
Taking a break from life, is to begin to die.
Congratulations Shemmn!!! Thank you everyone as usual for participating in and voting for this thread...see you in Number 18!
20 Answers
"Vivir no es sólo existir sino existir y crear saber gozar y sufrir y no dormir sin soñar Descansar, es empezar a morir."
English: To live is not only to exist, but to exist and create, know enjoyment and suffering, and not sleep without dreams. To be passive is to begin to die.
Hmm, this one seemed harder to me than #16, I wasn't sure how to make "descansar" make sense with the rest of the sentence... At first I wanted to translate all the verbs as gerunds but they're in the infinitive form in the original, so I waffled and finally went with this.
To live is not merely to exist...it is rather to exist and create, know, enjoy, and suffer, and not to sleep without dreaming. When you rest is when you start to die.
Since a translation loses the beauty of the rhyme, I'm going to be a little loose in my translation:
Living is not just existing
You are fated to exist and create
It's how you know joy and suffering
And if you sleep without dreaming
It is just resting, and you'll start to die.
Vivir no es sólo existir sino existir y crear saber gozar y sufrir y no dormir sin soñar Descansar, es empezar a morir.
Living is more than merely existing, You have to both exist and create You must know suffering and joy You can not go through life without dreams If you stop doing these things then you are already dead.
I took liberties.
To live is not only to exist, but to exist and to create, to know joy and suffering, and not to sleep without dreaming. To rest, is to begin to die.
To live is not solely to exist
but also to create
to know how to enjoy and to suffer
and not to sleep without dreaming
To rest is when you start to die.
Life is not merely existence but existing and creating, to know how to enjoy and to suffer and to never sleep without a dream. To rest is to begin a path towards death.
Living is not only exist but exist and create know how to enjoy and suffer and not sleep without dreaming Rest, is starting to die
Living is not just existing, but to exist and and create, to know joy and suffering, and never sleeping without dreaming. Resting is the start of death.
"Vivir no es sólo existir sino existir y crear saber gozar y sufrir y no dormir sin soñar Descansar, es empezar a morir." Gregorio Marañon
"Living is not simply existing, but existing and creating; to experience learning, enjoying, suffering, and never sleeping without having dreams. Resting is the beginning of death."
Gregorio Marañon
Living is not only to exist, but rather to exist and create, to know how to enjoy yourself and to suffer, and not to sleep without dreaming. Resting is beginning to die.
To live is not only to exist, but rather to exist and to create, to know how to enjoy oneself and to suffer, and not to sleep without dreaming. To rest, is to begin to die.
"Vivir no es sólo existir sino existir y crear saber gozar y sufrir y no dormir sin soñar Descansar, es empezar a morir."
To live is not to be alone but to live and to create, to know, to enjoy and to have and not to sleep but to dream. Resting, is to begin to die.
"Vivir no es sólo existir
sino existir y crear
saber gozar y sufrir
y no dormir sin soñar
Descansar, es empezar a morir."
**To live is not only existing
but rather living and creating
to know pleasure and suffering
and to not sleep without dreaming.
resting is to start dying.**
To be alive is not soley to exist but to live and to create,to know,to rejoice and to suffer and not to sleep without dreams.To rest is to begin to die.
