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Spanish term or phrase:
ilusión por alimento
English translation:
[youth always] thrives on dreams
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ilusión por alimento
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Trying to find the English equivalent to this quote, help appreciated thanks, there must be a translation on the internet already but just cant find it...
La juventud siempre tiene la ilusión por alimento.
DESCARTES
La juventud siempre tiene la ilusión por alimento.
DESCARTES
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[youth always] thrives on dreams
Una manera para decirlo, aunque no lo encuentro tampoco.
Por supuesto, nunca traduciría "ilusión" en "illusion"
Por supuesto, nunca traduciría "ilusión" en "illusion"
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| gracias...no yo tampoco, habia pensado enthusiasm...muchas gracias y feliz año, me gusta tu sugerencia :) |
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youth thrives on enthusiasm
Keeping in mind that Descartes was a rationalist, I suggest you stay with "enthusiasm" - it more clearly maintains the "earthly" sense basic to his thinking, and it sustains the idea that although the present may be difficult and the future unknown, life moves inevitably forward (recurrent themes in his work). And precisely because young people do not consider consequences (in fact are often incapable of imagining them), they are able to throw themselves forward with joy and ENTHUSIASM - they can live on this alone.
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nurtures on dreams/desires//is nurturing in dreams...
"nature vs. nurture"... Descartes.
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Carol Gullidge
: sorry but "nurtures on" and "nurturing in" don't work in English//sadly, you can't rely on everything you find on Google. Your link looks rather like a bad translation :(( ... "Nurture" is a transitive verb, requiring a direct object
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The Deir El Ahmar vineyard, which is located 112 km from the Winery in Basbina, nurtures on rich red clay soil. http://www.ixsir.com.lb/media/vineYards.swf?nocache=12299040... It may depend on the context then. Thanks Carol !
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Youth lives on hope
There is a french proverb 'Youth lives on hope, old age on remembrance'. Could this be from Descartes?
Reference:
http://www.searchquotes.com/quotation/Youth_lives_on_hope%2C_old_age_on_remembrance/232261/
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