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ferocious setting

Spanish translation: áspera fortaleza

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English term or phrase:ferocious setting
Spanish translation:áspera fortaleza
Entered by: berbeito

07:59 Apr 12, 2022
English to Spanish translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / guidebook
English term or phrase: ferocious setting
In the 1880s synthetic aniline dyes were developed and the demand for cochineal tailed off, leaving a legacy of attractive but hazardous prickly pears across the landscape. Old plants can be enormous, their bulbous and twisted woody bases rearing among the skeletal fibrous ovals of long dead pads, providing a playground for rats living in their ferocious fastness and feasting through the winter on lingering, squishy fruits. The story doesn’t quite end there though because cochineal is still used in certain items of food and drink as, unlike the chemical alternatives, it is not highly toxic.
berbeito
Spain
Local time: 02:30
áspera fortaleza
Explanation:
No sé de donde salió "setting", la frase es "ferocious fastness"
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patinba
Argentina
Local time: 21:30
Grading comment
mil gracias
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5implacable fortaleza
Estefanía Quis
4rapidez feroz
Adriana Uribe
1 +1áspera fortaleza
patinba
Summary of reference entries provided
festejo feroz
José Patrício

  

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ferocious fastness
áspera fortaleza


Explanation:
No sé de donde salió "setting", la frase es "ferocious fastness"

patinba
Argentina
Local time: 21:30
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 176
Grading comment
mil gracias

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Antonio Berbel Garcia: Si, perdon. Es fastness, no setting
1 hr
  -> OK, Gracias!
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
rapidez feroz


Explanation:
It may not be particularly poetic but I feel that the iteration of "ferocious fastness" could be omitted as the long sentences help the reader to perceive the busy and hectic environment being narrated.

Adriana Uribe
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:30
Works in field
Native speaker of: Spanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  patinba: You should check the meaning of fastness.
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1 day 7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
implacable fortaleza


Explanation:
Las plantas antiguas pueden ser enormes; las bases leñosas, bulbosas y retorcidas que se levantan entre los óvalos fibrosos y esqueléticos de las pencas que llevan mucho tiempo muertas constituyen un parque de diversiones para las ratas, que eligen esa implacable fortaleza para vivir y que, en invierno, se dan un festín con los frutos blandos abandonados.

Estefanía Quis
Argentina
Local time: 21:30
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
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Reference comments


1 hr
Reference: festejo feroz

Reference information:
Tenemos aquí una hipálage. Quien es feroz son las ratas y non los festejos

José Patrício
Portugal
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese

Peer comments on this reference comment (and responses from the reference poster)
neutral  patinba: No, lo que es feroz es la fortaleza (fastness), pausa, seguido de "y en invierno se hacen un festín"
6 hrs
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