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> Salí de la ciudad, ribera abajo, al encuentro solitario del barco que aguardaba, sin saber cuándo vendría. > I left the city and made my way downriver alone,
by glibgil 10y ago
> Salí de la ciudad, ribera abajo, al encuentro solitario del barco que aguardaba, sin saber cuándo vendría.
> I left the city and made my way downriver alone, to meet the ship I awaited without knowing when it would come.
The human translation seems a little wrong to me.
I'll argue for the following:
I left the city, downstream, to the solitary meeting of the ship I awaited, not knowing when it would arrive.
"encuentro" seems to be a noun here, therefore "meeting". "solitario" is an adjective and describes the "meeting", not the narrator's manner of leaving.
- tetraodonpuffer 10y agoI agree your translation is a lot closer to the original text, the original for example talks about a 'solitary meeting' with the ship, it does not say like in the translators' that the character got there alone, they could have gotten there with others and left them to wait for the boat alone for all the reader knows. As much as the sentence in the article is quite nice, it seems more of a reinterpretation of the original compared to an exact translation like yours.