Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
mal disimulando
English translation:
ill disguising his feelings
Added to glossary by
Yvonne Becker
Nov 6, 2005 16:23
18 yrs ago
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Spanish term
mal disimulando
Spanish to English
Art/Literary
Linguistics
Es una expresión en un guión, describiendo la actitud de un personaje.
"Jesús: (**MAL DISIMULANDO**)
Su excelencia, como siempre, me honra, pero sabe que yo no puedo aceptar. Mi puesto... (APOYA SUS MANOS EN LOS HOMBROS DE JUANA) nuestro puesto, es a su lado."
Este personaje no es sincero en lo que dice y sus gestos o actitud lo delantan
"Jesús: (**MAL DISIMULANDO**)
Su excelencia, como siempre, me honra, pero sabe que yo no puedo aceptar. Mi puesto... (APOYA SUS MANOS EN LOS HOMBROS DE JUANA) nuestro puesto, es a su lado."
Este personaje no es sincero en lo que dice y sus gestos o actitud lo delantan
Proposed translations
(English)
Proposed translations
+8
20 mins
Selected
(ill disguising his feelings)
meaning hardly
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Note added at 21 mins (2005-11-06 16:45:00 GMT)
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or
(barely disguising his feelings)
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Note added at 21 mins (2005-11-06 16:45:00 GMT)
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or
(barely disguising his feelings)
Peer comment(s):
agree |
Daniel Burns (X)
4 mins
|
agree |
Rachel Fell
12 mins
|
agree |
Clare Macnamara
17 mins
|
agree |
Javier Herrera (X)
23 mins
|
agree |
Emilie
47 mins
|
agree |
Marcelo González
: barely disguising his feelings
53 mins
|
agree |
franglish
1 hr
|
agree |
claudia16 (X)
7 hrs
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11 mins
hardly disguising his intentions
hth
7 mins
concealing his feelings
an option
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es verdad! sería hardly concealing his feelings
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Note added at 13 mins (2005-11-06 16:37:33 GMT)
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es verdad! sería hardly concealing his feelings
+1
16 mins
making a bad job of hiding his feelings
sugg.
Steve sat behind her on the bed doing a bad job of hiding his nervousness. ...
Steve was helpless and delighted, free to surrender to all his feelings. ...
www.geocities.com/Hollywood/8200/strife.html
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... spend two hours a day doing his hair, the ... to make sure people notice them, doing
a bad job of hiding their disappointment ... then you get to start making light of ...
www.mrcranky.com/movies/animal/14.html
rather:
"making a bad/poor job of hiding his real feelings/what he was really thinking"
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Note added at 33 mins (2005-11-06 16:56:58 GMT)
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or "doing a bad..."
Steve sat behind her on the bed doing a bad job of hiding his nervousness. ...
Steve was helpless and delighted, free to surrender to all his feelings. ...
www.geocities.com/Hollywood/8200/strife.html
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Note added at 21 mins (2005-11-06 16:45:37 GMT)
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... spend two hours a day doing his hair, the ... to make sure people notice them, doing
a bad job of hiding their disappointment ... then you get to start making light of ...
www.mrcranky.com/movies/animal/14.html
rather:
"making a bad/poor job of hiding his real feelings/what he was really thinking"
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Note added at 33 mins (2005-11-06 16:56:58 GMT)
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or "doing a bad..."
+3
49 mins
barely hiding his (feeling)
"I will not!" she replied, barely hiding her disgust.
Peer comment(s):
agree |
Marcelo González
24 mins
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agree |
Muriel Vasconcellos
1 hr
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agree |
Carmen Riadi
5 hrs
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+1
51 mins
ill-concealed
for me
"My father no longer trusts me," he said, with ill-concealed bitterness. ...
His tone of ill-concealed compassion stung her like a cut from a whip across the back...
"My father no longer trusts me," he said, with ill-concealed bitterness. ...
His tone of ill-concealed compassion stung her like a cut from a whip across the back...
1 hr
poorly pretending
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9 hrs
poorly disguising (his feeling)
...
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