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Question

What does the circus part mean? Is he saying he worked in a circus, or comparing his job to a circus dwarf? "Yo trabajaba en una mina sacando escombros hacia afuera y un trabajo de enano en un circo lejano".

Answer 1

He is just comparing " I worked in a mine pulling rubble outside, a job similar to a dwarf in a far away circus

Answer 2

No, it's not a comparison, they are two different jobs.

There's a grammar mistake in the sentence: "sacando escombros hacia afuera" should be "sacando escombros", "hacia afuera" is redundant as "sacando" already means that it's "hacia afuera".

I'll rephrase the sentence so it's grammatically correct and makes more sense...

"Yo trabajaba en una mina sacando escombros y también tenía un trabajo de enano en un circo lejano".

"I worked as a miner removing rubble and also had a job a circus dwarf"

Just a question...where did you get this from? is it me or it sounds odd that he worked as a miner and a dwarf in a circus?

"hacia afuera" what does it mean ? - LipsLikeSugar, Oct 6, 2011

literally "toward outside", here it means that he hauled the tailings out of the mine to be stockpiled or removed for processing... - 0074b507, Oct 7, 2011

I think it would sound better saying: I also had a job AS a circus dwarf or I had a job: a circus dwarf. - FELIZ77, Oct 7, 2011

Sorry, I meant to say "as a circus dwarf" - geouk, Oct 8, 2011

Answer 3

Its lyrics from a song, "El Agricultor" del Canto Del Sol, i need to interpret it for a school project