Apr 23, 2022 09:42
2 yrs ago
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español term

endurecerse con la fama

español al inglés Otros Poesía y literatura Literature.
I would like to know the best translation of this phrase from Latin American Spanish into American English.

Translator colleagues from Spain, feel free to send me your suggestions as well. This is a translation about Mythology. Is okay to translate it as his heart hardened with the fame?

It's about the story of Theseus and the Minotaur of the Greek Mythology.

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Al poco zarpaba del puerto incendiando los barcos cretenses y dirigiéndose hacia el mar abierto con la cabeza envuelta en un trapo. Ariadna se fue con él, le amaba, desde el primer momento en que le vio le amaba, pero se dio cuenta de que su corazón empezaba a endurecerse con la fama. Tenía ante si el sangriento trozo de vela que cubría la cabeza de su hermano...

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realized that fame hardened / was beginning to harden his heart

Example sentence:

Pharaoh for his fame hardened his heart, From the fruits of Israel he would not part

Into the wilderness Israel escaped Pharaoh with hardened heart,

Note from asker:
Thanks Ana. I was thinking the same. I read this part of the old testament.
Peer comment(s):

agree Andrew Bramhall
58 minutos
Thank you, Andrew!
agree Bartholomeu (X)
4 horas
Thank you, Bartholomeu!
agree José Patrício
4 horas
Obrigada, José Patrício!
agree Marcelo González
14 horas
Obrigada, Marcelo!
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realized that fame was beginning to turn him into a hard-hearted individual

Or "realized that fame was beginning to make his heart as hard as steel".

https://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/heart of steel...

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Note added at 1 hr (2022-04-23 10:53:08 GMT)
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Or simply, "was beginning to make him hard-hearted".

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Note added at 1 hr (2022-04-23 10:55:12 GMT)
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Or the much less literal "was beginning to turn his heart to steel".
Note from asker:
Thanks Miss Cochran!
Peer comment(s):

agree Adrian MM.
2 horas
Thanks again, Adrian! Top of the weekend to you!
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