Translation for "escandir" to english

Escandir

verb

• scan

Translation examples

scan verb

Quizá por eso la mayoría de los estudiantes de letras no se dedicarán luego a nada relacionado con su disciplina, sino a la política o las finanzas: siempre hay tiempo para aprender en un cursillo con posterioridad, y en cambio se considera en la sociedad inglesa que quien ha padecido los métodos oxonienses está capacitado para casi cualquier puesto de responsabilidad, aunque en sus años universitarios se limitara a escandir sonetos de Góngora y a aburrirse con la novela de nuestra postguerra.
Perhaps that is why most of the literature students take up jobs that have nothing to do with their degree, but go into politics or banking, it being a widely held view in English society that anyone who has been exposed to the Oxford method of education is thereby qualified to take on any post of responsibility, even if he spent his university years scanning sonnets by Góngora and being bored to death by Spain’s post-Civil War novels.