"Intenta Respetar" por Carlos Baute
¡Hola a todos!
Trataba de traducir las letras de una canción de Carlos Baute, pero creo que hice mal la traducción de una estrofa. Aquí está:
No estás siendo razonable
No sé lo que te ha ocurrido
Vas jugando al tiro al blanco con el que se te atraviese
Sin haberle conocido
Creía que significaba:
You're not being reasonable
I don't know what has happened to you
You're playing target shooting with he who cuts you off
Without having met him
¡Yo no entiendo para nada qué significa la tercera línea! ¿Es que me pueden explicar su significado, por favor?
¡Gracias!
2 Answers
I like your post because I am very familiar with the circumstances.
I just watched the video. Although the message of this song is perfectly applicable to any situation of intolerance, Carlos Baute’s words are particularly directed against the Venezuelan government. What does the third line mean? In addition to what polenta says, I think it means that any intolerant person attacks anyone who get in his way (anyone who “es diferente…que piensa algo distinto”, such as the beginning of the song says).
I have no clear idea how to translate that line. Do these make sense?:
You play target shooting against (or with) anyone who gets in your way.
You use anyone who gets in your way as target of your shots.
"Tiro al blanco" is like a sport called darts in English I guess but instead of darts you shoot bullets. It's like the person criticized (you) is playing with people instead of being reasonable
and trying to know him/her. In general you are at a distance of an aim and around it you have concentric circles. The closer you hit the aim, the better you are at this sport . This is called "tiro al blanco".
As for "el que se te atraviese" it would mean whoever passes by near you or whoever is near you, or whoever walks past you etc.
"Sin conocerlo" would be without knowing him/her . Conocer could be "meet" or "know". In this case it's "know".
