Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
leones de piel ocre tumbados al sol
English translation:
brown/ochre (furred) lions lying / basking in the sun
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Noni Gilbert Riley
Jun 14, 2009 15:28
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Spanish term
leones de piel ocre tumbados al sol
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I got a little lost with this one:
No puede faltar un pic-nic en el crater y un safari fotográfico: contemplar los hermosos leones de piel ocre tumbados al sol o la increíble fauna oculta que habita en el crater, es otro más de los atractivos de encontrarse con África.
Do not miss out on a picnic in the crater or a photo safari – gazing at the beautiful, ochre skin lions arched to the sun or the incredible hidden fauna that live in the crater...
No puede faltar un pic-nic en el crater y un safari fotográfico: contemplar los hermosos leones de piel ocre tumbados al sol o la increíble fauna oculta que habita en el crater, es otro más de los atractivos de encontrarse con África.
Do not miss out on a picnic in the crater or a photo safari – gazing at the beautiful, ochre skin lions arched to the sun or the incredible hidden fauna that live in the crater...
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Jun 27, 2009 17:03: Noni Gilbert Riley Created KOG entry
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Noni Gilbert Riley
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brown/ochre (furred) lions lying / basking in the sun
I've avoided using skin, because we don't actually see their skin, but their fur (the writer didn't have his/her eye completely on the ball here, I fear!). In fact I think it works best without anything at all. The colour adjective used is a little surprising: golden is what we're used to. And tumbados is really just lying, but basking is asking to be used I feel - a question of collocation.
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lions with ochre-coloured skin lying in the sun
Animales salvajes, animales en extincion, animales de la selva
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Pero no todos viven en manada, algunos leones, tanto machos como hembras, ... El león macho tiene la cabeza grande, la piel es de color ocre y está provisto ...
es.geocities.com/animaleswebs/animales-salvajes.htm - Cached – Similar
Flores Island, Indonesia
1 Sep 1998 ... The creature's scaly, ochre coloured skin was sun-mottled with shards of pink, green and silver. A couple of second later it shuffled away, ...
goinside.com/98/9/flores.html - Cached – Similar
Carretera al cielo de los gatos / Road to heaven' s cat on Flickr ...
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Esperará en la alcantarilla tumbado al sol a que llegue del trabajo por las ... He will be lying in the sun over the sewer cap and waiting me to come from ...
www.flickr.com/photos/pedrosalvador/3441875937/ - Cached - Similar
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Pero no todos viven en manada, algunos leones, tanto machos como hembras, ... El león macho tiene la cabeza grande, la piel es de color ocre y está provisto ...
es.geocities.com/animaleswebs/animales-salvajes.htm - Cached – Similar
Flores Island, Indonesia
1 Sep 1998 ... The creature's scaly, ochre coloured skin was sun-mottled with shards of pink, green and silver. A couple of second later it shuffled away, ...
goinside.com/98/9/flores.html - Cached – Similar
Carretera al cielo de los gatos / Road to heaven' s cat on Flickr ...
- [ Translate this page ]
Esperará en la alcantarilla tumbado al sol a que llegue del trabajo por las ... He will be lying in the sun over the sewer cap and waiting me to come from ...
www.flickr.com/photos/pedrosalvador/3441875937/ - Cached - Similar
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jmleger
: ochre lions basking in the sun (forget the fur, forget the coloured, it's superfluous.)
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fair enough.
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Michael Kincaid
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Ochre lions lounging in the sun
another option...sounds like a fun project :)
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Sylvia Valls
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reddish-brown lions basking in the sun
I think you can play around with the style a bit ... tumbados, flopped down... but they are indeed basking in the sun. More poetic... :--)
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golden-brown lions lazing in the sun
Colors are highly subjective and no words can accurately describe them.
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Tara Orzolek
: I hate to say it, but often you have to appeal to the lowest common denominator, and I think most people would better visualize golden-brown than ochre. Although I do like basking vs. lazing.
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Cinnamon Nolan
: Lying or basking
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Ruth Ramsey
: I like "basking" but I think golden-brown captures it nicely.
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Lucy Williams
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lions the colour of ochre basking in the sun
another idea
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