Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

a stout, and turbulent, and self-willed boy

Spanish translation:

un chico testarudo, violento y egoísta

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English term

a stout, and turbulent, and self-willed boy

English to Spanish Art/Literary Religion 19th century book
A few years since, a lady was left a widow, with several little sons. She loved them most devotedly. The affliction which she had experienced in the loss of her husband, fixed her affections with more intensity of ardor and sensitiveness upon her children. They were her only hope. Sad and joyless as she was, she could not endure to punish them—or to deprive them of a single indulgence. Unhappy and misguided woman! Could she expect to escape the consequences of such a course? She was living upon the delusive hope that her indulgences would ensure their love! And now one of these sons is seventeen years of age—a stout, and turbulent, and self-willed boy. He is altogether beyond the influence of maternal restraint. He is the tyrant of the family, and his afflicted mother is almost entirely broken-hearted by this accumulation of sorrow. The rest of the children are coming on in the same path.

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un chico testarudo, violento y egoísta

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12 mins

un muchacho obstinado/porfiado, revoltoso/belicoso y díscolo

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un chico determinado (decidido), revoltoso (conflictivo) y obstinado (testarudo, terco)

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1 hr

un muchacho/joven corpulento, revoltoso y terco/obstinado

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Note added at 2 hrs 1 min (2005-09-06 18:04:10 GMT)
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las opciones pueden ser varias....

stout = adj. - corpulento, sólido, fuerte, resistente, robusto

self-willed = adj. - arbitrario, obstinado, terco
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Un muchacho/joven/chico fuerte, rebelde y terco/cabezota

Otra sugerencia. Un saludo,
Cecilia
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