Favorite Quotes (closed)
Hey, we just played this in SPANISH 4 class and I wanted to share it with the SD gang
Directions:
1: type your favorite quote or phrase in English
2: now type it in Spanish, next to your English version
3: in ENGLISH, explain where you heard the quote/phrase
HAVE FUN
2 Answers
Wow.
This gave me a very long exercise. it has taken a few hours to do these translations but here they are.
1 “Just because you are paranoid, doesn’t mean no one is out to get you”
Solo porque eres paranoid, no significa que nadie quiere te herir”
2The French have overwhelmingly rejected condensation and arrogance. Thats in other people not themselves
El francés han rechazando altivez y arrogancia, pero solo en otros gentes, no en ellos
3 If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.- Mark Twain
Si no lees los periodicos, estas desinformado. Si lees los periodicos, estas informado mal.
4 Kill all my demons and my angels might die too
Matas todos de mis demonios, y mis angeles mueren tambien
5 When asked on his deathbed by a priest to renounce the devil and turn to God,Voltaire is alleged to have replied, "Now is no time to be making new enemies".
Ahora no es la hora, para haciendo enemigos
6 "History doesn't repeat itself, it rhymes” Twain
Historia no se repita, se rima
7 "Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong." – Oscar Wilde.
Cada vez que personas estan de acuerdo conmigo, siempre siento que tengo que estar equiviocado
8 "First say yes, and later say but".
Primero, digas “si”, y mas tarde, digas “pero”
9 "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it” – Churchill
Historia va a estar favourable (a mi / conmigo?) porque tengo la intencion a escribirlo
10 A UN GOODWILL AMBASSADOR is a strange position which DOESNT CHANGE VERY MUCH OTHER THAN PERHAPS THE DEFINITION OF GOOD WILL.
Un ONU embajador de Buena voluntad, es una extraña puesta que no cambia mucho, ademas de quizas la definición de Buena voluntad
11"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter" - Winston Churchill
EL major argumento contra democracia, es una conversación de cinco minutes con un votante medio
12 Lenin on social democracy. We should support it like the rope supports the hanging man.
Debemos apoyarlo, que la cuerda apoya el hombre colgante
13 Stop calling it abuse. Abuse is what I do to Johnny Walker Black, its a victimless crime-
Dejes de llamarlo abuso. Abuso es que hago a Johnny Walker negro. No es un crimen
14 Your cause of grief, must not be mentioned by his worth, for then it haff no end.-Macbeth
Su causa de dolor, no debe no mencionar por su vale, porque entonces no tiene el final
15 Tony Blair while solving Northen Ireland peace process This is not a time for soundbites, I feel the hand of history upon my shoulder- tony blair.
No es el vez por palabras famosos, siento las manos de historia en mi hombro
16 Many men would take the death sentence without a whimper to escape the life sentence which Fate carries in her handTE Lawrence on death
Muchos hombres tomarian la pena de muerte sin una palabra, para escapar la cadena perpetua, que el destino oferece en su otra mano.
17 "Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing."
Tomando de mi estupenda mano de idioma, no hablé nada
18 HE SHARED WITH US A DARK CORNER OF THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT
El compartió con nosotros una esquina negra de el Experimento Americano
19 thats the first time anyones called me sir without adding you're making a scene- Homer
Eso es el primera vez que alguien me llamó “senor” sin añadir. haces una escena.
20 Go now and die in what way seems best for you
Ve ahora y morir en cual sentido te gusta mejor.
21 Broken ribs are overated anyway –
Cortillas rotos son sobrevalorado.
22 I know thee not old man, fall to thy prayers – Shakespear, Henry IV
No te conozco el viejo, caes en sus oraciónes
23 He's bad, but he'll die. So I like it. – Simpsons Miss Hoover on a painting of Mr burns
El es malo, pero va a morir, entonces lo me gusta
24 "Went by the name of Homer. Seven feet tall he was, with arms like tree trunks. His eyes were like steel: cold, hard. Had a shock of hair, red, like the fires of Hell"
Se llamó Homer, ,medió siete pies, con brazos como troncos. Su ojos fue como acero, fríos, duro. Ha tenido el pelo largo. Rojo, como los fuegos del infierno
25 A coward dies a thousand deaths, a hero only one – Shakespear
Un cobarde muere un mil muertes, pero un héroe solo uno
26 A man is not completa till hes married, then hes finished
El hombre no es complete hasta esta casado, y entonces es acabado.
27 A famous Soviet-era joke advised that the latest edition of the encyclopedia had a regrettable misprint: instead of “distinguished statesman, hero of socialist labor” the paragraph should read “enemy of the people, convicted foreign spy.”
En lugar de “destacado estadista, héroe de trabajo socialista”, el párrafo debe decir “enemigo de la gente, espia extranjero convicto”
And here is a Spanish one 28 El sueno de la razon produce monstruos": the sleep of reason brings forth monsters. ...
Let's see... besa mi burro? No eso no es bueno. ¿Qué tal esto?
Seeing is believing.
Ver es creer.
I'm not sure where I first heard this quote but it is pretty commonly used.
