anticipation

Spanish translation: ansiedad y expectativa

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English term or phrase:anticipation
Spanish translation:ansiedad y expectativa
Entered by: Antonio Berbel Garcia

12:41 Mar 23, 2016
English to Spanish translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature
English term or phrase: anticipation
I decided to answer Pablo's sixth unanswered phone message. We spoke two languages together that helped me forget. One was Spanish, the other was sex.
"Jenny, llamaste" His surprise looked genuine and excited me.
Did you think I wouldn't call? The pause before his reply said more than most of our words ever did. Let's meet at the restaurant, the usual one. So I dressed in a tight black miniskirt and skimpy white top, and slipped into the streets.
After three hours of ANTICIPATION with Pablo, oiled by a bottle of Borgoña red wine, coffee, cognac and a great deal of eye contact, I am hungry, yet there is something about entering the place that I can never get used to. I think it's the smugness of it all, the coy yet knowing glint in the eyes of the couple who are just leaving as you step into the red light, or the matter-of-factness about the man behind the counter who asks if you want "with video or without" and the discreet way he hands you the keys.
Antonio Berbel Garcia
Local time: 00:37
ansiedad y expectativa
Explanation:
maybe?
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patinba
Argentina
Local time: 19:37
Grading comment
Gracias a todos. Un abrazo desde Almería.
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2ansiedad y expectativa
patinba
4 +1expectación
Diego Sebastián Navarro
4divagación/elucubración/lucubración
Juan Arturo Blackmore Zerón
3expectativa llena de anhelo
JohnMcDove


Discussion entries: 2





  

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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
ansiedad y expectativa


Explanation:
maybe?

patinba
Argentina
Local time: 19:37
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 176
Grading comment
Gracias a todos. Un abrazo desde Almería.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Mónica Algazi
14 mins
  -> Gracias, Mónica!

agree  Toni Castano: "Ansiedad", I would say... in view of what is about to happen :-)
47 mins
  -> Maybe! Thanks, Toni!
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50 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
expectación


Explanation:
Otra opción

expectación (DRAE)
1. f. Espera, generalmente curiosa o tensa, de un acontecimiento que interesa o importa.


    Reference: http://dle.rae.es/?id=HHzOzQc
Diego Sebastián Navarro
Spain
Local time: 00:37
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Beatriz Ramírez de Haro
26 mins
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9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
expectativa llena de anhelo


Explanation:
expectativa anhelante...

No conozco todo el contexto, ni a la chica ni a la pareja...

Pero 3 horas de "ansiedad", me parecen excesivas...

En un contexto "poético"... un poco de "anhelo esperanzado" me parece más "fino"... aunque a lo mejor o a lo peor yo soy un ingenuo romántico...

"Salid sin duelo, lágrimas corriendo", que diría el pastorcillo de las églogas de Garcilaso... cosa que no viene al caso..., dicho sea de paso. ;-)

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Note added at 9 hrs (2016-03-23 22:07:33 GMT)
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Bueno, y quien dice "anhelo", puede decir "aguardo" (espera) "apentencia" (deseo), aquella sensación de quien "se las ve y se las desea"... para lograr su objetivo...

JohnMcDove
United States
Local time: 15:37
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 241
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9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
divagación/elucubración/lucubración


Explanation:
Aunque pienso que sería mejor: después de tres horas de divagar con Pablo . . .

Juan Arturo Blackmore Zerón
Mexico
Local time: 17:37
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 12
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