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El presente

English translation: The present moment

22:02 Mar 20, 2012
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Cinema, Film, TV, Drama / Documentary
Spanish term or phrase: El presente
Idea audiovisual y tratamiento
Los tiempos en una calle abandonada son lentos, cualquier cosa que pasa, por pequeña que parezca, puede ser un suceso. El presente es el silencio de las casas tapiadas y los letreros de SE VENDE de la zona, con las sombras que le proporcionan las distintas horas del día, los escasos transeúntes siempre de paso, los letreros con nombres exóticos de los bares cerrados (de noche y de día), la actividad de los escasos negocios que aún funcionan, como el ambiente mortecino del bar Bristol y los recorridos de los habitantes de una u otra casa.
Lorna O'Donoghue
Local time: 22:30
English translation:The present moment
Explanation:
They're talking of the present as an instant opposed to other moments. It's more than a literal translation.
Selected response from:

Lillian Julber
Uruguay
Local time: 18:30
Grading comment
Many thanks
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +7The present/Today/Now
Blanca Collazo
5 +1The present moment
Lillian Julber
4 +1The here and now
claudia16 (X)
4at present
bianca urban
3(our current) reality
Lydia De Jorge


  

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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
(our current) reality


Explanation:
sugg

Lydia De Jorge
United States
Local time: 16:30
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 40
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21 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +7
The present/Today/Now


Explanation:
Probably the town was bursting with joy at some point, but now, it is so quiet and probably so hopeless that the present is described as silence.

Blanca Collazo
Puerto Rico
Local time: 17:30
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish, Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  fionn: the present moment
9 mins
agree  Gabriela Rivera
10 mins
agree  Thayenga
22 mins
agree  Rosa Paredes
29 mins
agree  Jenni Lukac (X): Today
59 mins
agree  Vivian B E
1 hr
agree  Claudia Luque Bedregal
9 hrs
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
The present moment


Explanation:
They're talking of the present as an instant opposed to other moments. It's more than a literal translation.

Lillian Julber
Uruguay
Local time: 18:30
Works in field
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Many thanks

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  fionn
18 hrs
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8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
The here and now


Explanation:
x

claudia16 (X)
United Kingdom
Local time: 22:30
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  James A. Walsh: This is what occurred to me too.
7 hrs
  -> thank you James
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18 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
at present


Explanation:
it is talking about the here and now, but in a dreamy, nostalgic way

bianca urban
United Kingdom
Local time: 22:30
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
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