Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
Beat into the grave
Spanish translation:
(ni siquiera) llegando primera a la tumba / llegando a la tumba antes que ella
English term
Beat into the grave
How and why two people who always had the best of everything could contrive to be so bitterly jealous of one another it is difficult to understand, but it was nevertheless the case that from the moment of their birth Aurora and Jeanne were rivals. The most probable explanation is that their competition began even before birth, when they struggled for the lion's share of the limited resources available in their crowded womb. Their mother was fond of saying, with tired irony, that Jeanne had never forgiven Aurora for being born ahead of her, and never would be satisfied EVEN IF SHE BEAT HER INTO THE GRAVE.
Creo que es algo así como "golpearla hasta matarla", pero no estoy segura si es el término apropiado. Quizás me puedan decir un termino mejor.
Espero sus aportes.
Gracias.
| 4 +1 | (ni siquiera) llegando primera a la tumba / llegando a la tumba antes que ella |
margaret caulfield
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| 5 | ni siquiera provocando su muerte |
Marc Christian
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| 3 | incluso si ella muriera antes |
claudia16 (X)
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Proposed translations
Accurate, natural and very hard-working
Native in: English 
, Spanish
Works in: Spanish to English, English to Spanish, French to English, and 3 more.
(ni siquiera) llegando primera a la tumba / llegando a la tumba antes que ella
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Note added at 1 day20 hrs (2010-08-23 11:43:22 GMT) Post-grading
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Me alegra el haberte podido ayudar, Lucía.
incluso si ella muriera antes
Dominican Republic
Your message, understood. Ger, Spa, Eng
Native in: German (Variant: Germany) , Spanish (Variants: US, Latin American, Dominican)
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English, German to Spanish, and 3 more.
ni siquiera provocando su muerte
Jeanne quedó con resentimiento (bitterly jealous)y, más allá de Caín y Abel, ni siquiera se sentiría satisfecha con golpear hasta causarle la muerte a Aurora [no es que ella lo haría, pero es más bien para describir lo arraigado del sentimiento].
En la página http://maudnewton.com/blog/?p=9558, que contiene muchas expresiones idiomáticas graciosas, se cita como ejemplo:
Dan Leo offers this one “from Philadelphia, PA, where they boo Santa Claus”: “Of an extremely ancient senior citizen: ‘Some guys you gotta beat into the grave with a stick.’”...
Aunque suenan muy lógicas, no coincido con las opiniones de Claudia y Margaret por un refrán que dice: "Nadie quiere morirse, e incluso los que creen en el cielo no están dispuestos a morir para llegar allá".
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