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2012-11-14
Different Bodies
My two children have a different constitution. The youngest has an athletic body. Nor a drop of fat. He does not stay still a minute. He is pure nerve. Well, it is not quite true. He can performing any activity which requires concentration like drawing, reading, writing, making puzzles during about half an hour. Then, he suddenly explodes and starts jumping, tumbling around and doing somersaults. The sofas are his vaulting horses.
The elder of the two is quite different. He has something of overweight, about two or three kilos. He is quieter. Contrary to his brother, he is a long-distance runner. He has a lot of stamina.
From time to time I go out to run through the park. I thought it would be great going to run with my elder son so I talked about this issue with his physical education teacher. He told me all would depend on the willpower of my son, not of his physical endurance.
He said that children have, in proportion to their size, larger lungs and probably he would withstand more than me.
And indeed it was. The first time was amazing. It seemed that my son was accompanying me as one who takes his dog for a walk. I was shattered and however, he was enjoying the landscape and the wonderful evening.
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My two children have [] different constitutionS. The youngest has an athletic body. NoT a drop of fat. He does not stay still a minute. He is (pure nerve)(1). Well, it is not quite true. He can perforM any activity which requires concentration like drawing, reading, writing, making puzzles FOR about half an hour. Then, he suddenly explodes and starts jumping, tumbling around and doing somersaults. The sofas are his vaulting horses.(2)
ReplyDeleteThe elder of the two is quite different. He IS A LITTLE overweight(3), about two or three kilos. He is quieter. Contrary to his brother, he is a long-distance runner. He has a lot of stamina.
From time to time (good expression) I go out to run through the park. I thought it would be great going to run with my elder son so I talked about this issue with his physical education teacher. He told me all would depend on the willpower of my son, not ON his physical endurance.
He said that children have, in proportion to their size, larger lungs and probably he would withstand more than me.
And indeed it was SO. The first time was amazing. It seemed that my son was accompanying me as one who takes his dog for a walk.(great image) I was shattered WHILE he was enjoying the landscape and the wonderful evening.
(1)I might know what you're trying to say, this isn't right, and I can't think of the right way to say it.
(2)These 2 sentences are excellent.
(3)"overweight" is an adjective, not a noun.
Pure nerve = Pure adrenaline?
ReplyDeleteThanks for the corrections.
ReplyDeleteI am very surprised again. I did use the expression "pure nerve" in a literal way without look for another alternative, because it is an expression very common in Spain and I assumed that would be the same in the whole world.
It is an expression which we fundamentally use as in my example, when a person is very active, very vigorous.
It is widely used when you are describing a child but you can also hear it often in sports.
Puro nervio = pura actividad, pura adrenalina, pura energía, etc. It is all together. It is like saying: all these nouns in its "pure state" (estado puro).
Estado puro = net, without mixture. Oro puro / Oro fino = gold without any alloy.
In short, we use "pure" like "the summum, the highest degree".
The expression: "él es un completo imbécil" can still be more noticeable, it can have a bigger degree: "él es un puro imbécil".
"Pure adrenaline" and "pure energy" are good. "Nerve" means something else in this kind of saying -- see http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=nerve, item 3.
ReplyDeleteIf you look for "nervio" in www.rae.es, you can read:
ReplyDeleteser alguien puro ~, o un puro ~.
1. locs. verbs. coloqs. Ser muy activo e inquieto.