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cambiare specchio

English translation: to turn the tables

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Italian term or phrase:cambiare specchio
English translation:to turn the tables
Entered by: Therese Marshall

21:36 Jun 3, 2015
Italian to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Cinema, Film, TV, Drama / description of play storyline together with director's notes
Italian term or phrase: cambiare specchio
Indagare su quel che può accadere prima dell’Amleto significa provare a scoprire intrecci e motivazioni che nel testo scespiriano si affidano solo alla fantasia dello spettatore. Se cambiassero le premesse, la storia di Amleto sarebbe comunque piena di uccisioni, vendette, assassini?
La sensazione è che quella storia sia diventata il modello a cui l’umanità si è ispirata, e che ha ben saputo replicare nella vita di tutti i giorni; una storia che non accadrebbe se non venisse ispirata dalla parola Vendetta. “Vendica il mio brutale e snaturato assassinio”, dice lo spettro a suo figlio Amleto.
Probabilmente è quello il momento in cui nasce Amleto, e nascono l’immagine e il modello a cui noi stessi ci ispiriamo. Forse è arrivato il momento – così la pensa qualcuno di questi personaggi - di cambiare specchio, e provare a vivere la gestione del potere, a qualunque livello, rinunciando al sopruso, alla violenza, che sembrano le uniche premesse di quel che definiamo Giustizia.
Therese Marshall
Italy
Local time: 16:04
to turn the tables
Explanation:
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/turn the tables

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/turn_the_tables
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Aaron Kircher
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Local time: 07:04
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Summary of answers provided
4to turn the tables
Aaron Kircher
4change our view
Rita Koterba (X)
3to change the pattern
Barbara Cochran, MFA
3do an about-turn
Wendy Streitparth


  

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to change the pattern


Explanation:
Reference:

Sansoni's Rizzoli Larousse Unabridged Italian/English Dictionary.

Barbara Cochran, MFA
United States
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do an about-turn


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Wendy Streitparth
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to turn the tables


Explanation:
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/turn the tables

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/turn_the_tables

Example sentence(s):
  • The “no business as usual” ethos of the Black Lives Matter movement has shut down highways, shopping malls, and government buildings, but last week that disruption occurred inside a classroom at UC Berkeley when students at the School of Social Welfar
Aaron Kircher
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change our view


Explanation:
I was thinking along the lines of still incorporating the change aspect of cambiare and we look in a mirror so we view ourselves or others/other aspects through this.



Rita Koterba (X)
United Kingdom
Local time: 15:04
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in ItalianItalian
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