Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
Supere aquel aterrizaje de emergencia que siempre se estrellaba en el sueño
English translation:
[I] got over/overcame that emergency landing which, in the dream, always crashed
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Supere aquel aterrizaje de emergencia que siempre se estrellaba en el sueño
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To give some context, there is talk of aeroplanes and general fear in earlier passages but it's not clear whether the protagonist was ever in a crash or just dreams of it. I'm just not sure how to totally understand the 'siempre estrellaba en el sueño' part
More context:
Supere aquel aterrizaje de emergencia que siempre se estrellaba en el sueño, pero me quedaron las secuelas: el miedo enquistado y la sensación de vulnerabilidad constante
Thanks
To give some context, there is talk of aeroplanes and general fear in earlier passages but it's not clear whether the protagonist was ever in a crash or just dreams of it. I'm just not sure how to totally understand the 'siempre estrellaba en el sueño' part
More context:
Supere aquel aterrizaje de emergencia que siempre se estrellaba en el sueño, pero me quedaron las secuelas: el miedo enquistado y la sensación de vulnerabilidad constante
Thanks
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[I] got over/overcame that emergency landing which, in the dream, always crashed
not an elegant translation but just to give you an idea and get the ball rolling
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Note added at 2 hrs (2016-05-04 03:36:03 GMT)
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Difficult to tell without further context (I know you said that you have not been provided the whole story). But what I gather is that he did have an emergency landing in real life but he has a recurring dream where the emergency landing is unsuccessful and the plane crashes.
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Note added at 2 hrs (2016-05-04 03:36:03 GMT)
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Difficult to tell without further context (I know you said that you have not been provided the whole story). But what I gather is that he did have an emergency landing in real life but he has a recurring dream where the emergency landing is unsuccessful and the plane crashes.
Note from asker:
| Yes i think that was about how I translated it as a first attempt, but I just wasn't sure if I had missed something in terms of whether it was a real or imagined emergency landing, or even whether 'estrellar' had some other meaning in the contexts of dreams. Thanks |
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I managed to get through the emergency landing which, in my dreams, had always ended with a crash
It seems that the intended sense of "superar" in this particular context is that of "survival" (i.e., coming out alive - or at least fully conscious and in one piece - after the emergency landing) and I think that "managed to get through expresses this idea more naturally than either "got over" or "overcame" here.
Finally, I think the pluperfect tense is necessary here to describe the previous reiterated dream scenario in which the plane ended up crashing.
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Note added at 15 hrs (2016-05-04 15:57:16 GMT)
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Erratum:
Close quote after "through" in explanation.
Finally, I think the pluperfect tense is necessary here to describe the previous reiterated dream scenario in which the plane ended up crashing.
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Note added at 15 hrs (2016-05-04 15:57:16 GMT)
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Erratum:
Close quote after "through" in explanation.
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