Glossary entry

español term or phrase:

personalidades sin porvenir

inglés translation:

dead-enders/ dropouts / drifters

Added to glossary by Lorena Zuniga
Mar 8, 2017 12:07
7 yrs ago
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español term

personalidades sin porvenir

español al inglés Arte/Literatura Poesía y literatura
Y los anónimos: personalidades sin porvenir, modelos amnésicas, sementales de una sola noche, lúmpenes encantadores, profesionales de la impostura, rentistas de la fotogenia...
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Mar 8, 2017 12:07: changed "Kudoz queue" from "In queue" to "Public"

Proposed translations

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dead-enders/ dropouts / drifters

All of thse are options that accurately and idiomatically reflect the original in a single word.

See:

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/dead-ender

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/drifter


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Note added at 41 mins (2017-03-08 12:48:12 GMT)
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Of the three, I think "dead-enders" would work best.
Peer comment(s):

agree Charles Davis : I agree with you: dead-enders would fit very well
13 minutos
Thank you, Charles!
agree franglish : Same here.
29 minutos
Thank you, Franglish.
agree Cecilia Gowar : I like dead-enders
46 minutos
Gracias, Cecilia.
agree Marie Wilson
1 hora
Thank you, Marie.
agree Carol Gullidge : ... and I also like drifters for the "los anónimos" theme
3 horas
I also think "drifters" is a possibility, as it inherently implies "people that are going nowhere" (which is what *personajes sin provenir* means). Thank you, Carol.
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
13 minutos

characters with no prospects / future

From the Oxford Spanish:

porvenir masculino future; nadie sabe lo que nos depara el porvenir nobody knows what the future has in store for us o holds for us; de gran porvenir with excellent prospects; un joven sin porvenir a young man with no future o no prospects
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3 horas

no-hopers

Another option.
No-hoper (noun) -> A person who is not expected to be successful.
"they wasted their nominations on a no-hoper"
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