Translation - Woman's life (English)

Hi Angelus

Is this "affection" as in "emotion, love" or as in "disease"?

Either is probably true of some women If it's more precise in Portuguese, maybe we should find a less ambiguous word in English.

The English is otherwise fine.

Bises
Tantine

I think "the story of her loves or love relations" is more suitable because "affections" can mean also "diseases".

story of love is less suitable than "love affair", or should we use "romantic encounter/experience"?

story of her romances???

then, romances

"afectos" -> "love affairs"?

a tradução correta seria:A vida da mulher é a historia de suas afeições.

Hi All

Thanks for these precisions.

Vivianwb, it's the English text that needs evaluating, not the Portuguese text.

What about

"A woman's life is the sum of her love affairs"

Bises
Tantine

Hi, Ruth!

I'm not sure about "sum": this words seems to me that the woman's love affairs are (mis)arranged like a heap, while "(hi)story" is somewhat an ordered sequence of that affairs, like things in a row. I'm thinking about a linear sequence of facts, that's what "história" means in Portuguese.

In short: "sum" = "amount"; "(hi)story" = "quality"

What do you think? Thanks again!

Ok Goncin,

You're right

"A woman's life is the story of her love affairs"

Will this be ok?

I'll edit and validate if so.

Bises
Tantine

It's OK for me.

That's nice Tantine.. you can validate it
Thank you!

Kisses

affairs = afectos?

Dear guilão,

What are you doing here in Cucumis You oughta have your vacancies in Croatia!

Anyway, if you are a true cucumaddict...

"Afectos" ("afetos" in pt-BR), in that sense, means "love affairs" (see messages above).

CC: guilon

Goncinho, Goncinho... I never doubted that Guilão was right.

Washington Irving wrote some time ago:

"Man is the creature of interest and ambition. His nature leads him forth into the struggle and bustle of the world. Love is but the embellishment of his early life, or a song piped in the intervals of the acts. He seeks for fame, for fortune for space in the world’s thought, and dominion over his fellow-men. But a woman’s whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world; it is there her ambition strives for empire—it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless—for it is a bankruptcy of the heart."

pirulito is [omitted thousands of words]

Hi

Nice quote Pirulito!!

But I'm validating this as it is, as your quote speaks of "the affections" and not of "her affections".

The little BrP that I can understand leads me to believe that is is "her" (seus) and not "the" that figures in the original.

Beijos
Tantine

"Love affairs" is a inappropriate and sexist translation!!! The
Washington Irving quote is the original.

Check it out!

A vida de uma mulher é a história dos seus afectos, escreveu há mais de um século o escritor americano Washington Irving e que cito de memória. (... I´m quoting from memory!!!)





CC: kafetzou

Aha! I found the original on several websites:

"A woman's life is a history of the affections."

NOTE: But I'm not sure why "love affairs" would be sexist, pirulito - they can go either way.

CC: pirulito

Thanks, Laura!