Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

an outcast from heaven

Spanish translation:

un proscrito del cielo

Added to glossary by Ana Juliá
Sep 15, 2005 14:36
18 yrs ago
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English term

an outcast from heaven

English to Spanish Art/Literary Religion 19th century book; Christian mothers
Though John Newton became a wicked wanderer, though he forsook friends and home, and every virtue; the remembrance of a mother's prayers, like a guardian angel, followed him wherever he went. He mingled in the most evil and disgraceful scenes of a sailor's life, and while surrounded with guilty associates, in midnight revelry, he would fancy he felt the soft hand of his mother upon his head, pleading with God to forgive and bless her boy. He went to the coast of Africa, and became even more degraded than the savages upon her dreary shores. But the soft hand of his mother was still upon his head, and the fervent prayers of his mother still thrilled in his heart. And this influence, after the lapse of many guilty years, brought back the prodigal, a penitent and a child of God; ... Had Mrs. Newton neglected her duty, had she even been as remiss as many Christian mothers, her son, to all human view, might have continued in sin, and been an outcast from heaven.

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un proscrito del cielo

o "un desterrado del cielo"

proscrito, ta.
(Del part. irreg. de proscribir).
1. adj. desterrado. U. t. c. s.
destierro.
(De desterrar).
1. m. Acción y efecto de desterrar o desterrarse.
2. m. Pena que consiste en expulsar a alguien de un lugar o de un territorio determinado, para que temporal o perpetuamente resida fuera de él.
Peer comment(s):

agree Javier Herrera (X) : eso había dicho yo
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gracias, Javier :)
agree Judith Payro
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gracias, Judith :)
agree muitoprazer (X) : like the use of indefinite article and Anabel is prettier than Javier as well.
3 mins
haha, thanks, you'll make me blush :P
agree Caro Friszman : Me gusta desterrado!
3 mins
gracias, Caro, saludos!
agree marybro : me gusta " desterrado" también
1 hr
gracias, Mary :)
agree JaneTranslates : My first reaction was to prefer the more poetic "desterrado" but then I was struck by the incongruency of "...terra..." and "cielo." Stick with "proscrito"!
2 hrs
thanks, Jane, you're absolutely right, I hand't even noticed! I guess I have the meaning of desterrado so internalized that I did no longer see the connection to tierra :)
agree Hebe Martorella
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gracias, Hebe, saludos :)
agree Arturo Delgado : de acuerdo con Jane ya que en el cielo no hay tierra que pisar, pero tampoco podria ser "descielado" (just kidding)
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gracias, Arturo, la verdad es que podríamos proponer descielar a la RAE, a ver qué opinan :D
agree Walter Landesman
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gracias, Walter :)
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Gracias, Anabel"
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apartado del cielo

Ya que no es un texto técnico ni nada por el estilo, es posible darle otra traducción que quede acorde al estilo, ya que se trata de religión.
El "apartar" aparece en la Biblia y en textos religiosos. Puede haber otras opciones, claro.
Espero te sirva. Saludo cordial.
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agree Tomás Cano Binder, BA, CT : A mí me gusta más esta opción. Todo el libro que está traduciendo Ana parece tratar la fe con mucha intensidad y la idea es que, por seguir en su línea de pecados, esta persona sería apartada de entrar en el cielo más adelante.
28 mins
Gracias, Tomás :-)
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expulsado del cielo

otra opción
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disagree Arturo Delgado : La idea es que el no se merecia "entrar" al cielo. Expulsado implica que el ya estaba alli y lo botaron
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expulsados / echados del paraíso

como adán y eva
salud.

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Note added at 29 mins (2005-09-15 15:06:01 GMT)
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clara referencia a lo bíblico

Adán y Eva expulsados del Paraíso

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que no merecia entrar en el cielo

Ante los ojos de la humanidad, hubiera seguido siendo un pecador que no merecia el cielo/entrar en el cielo
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