Translation for "movimiento de vaivén" to english
Movimiento de vaivén
noun
  • back and forth motion
Translation examples
back and forth motion
noun
Collingswood, sin que nadie se percatara, continuó lo que había empezado con un capricho exacerbado, frotando las manos contra la mesa como si fuera un DJ haciendo un scratch al son del politono de un compañero de clase, cuyo ritmo dictaba de forma inesperada el movimiento de vaivén del pez.
Collingswood, unnoticed, continued what she had started on an exasperated whim, scratching her hands on the desk as if DJing to a classmate’s ringtone, which rhythms quite unexpectedly dictated the fish’s back-and-forth motion.
El cabello o la larga trenza de Rapunzel es un vehículo por el cual va y viene la figura de la madre-bruja, una metáfora acertada para representar el movimiento de vaivén, la presencia y la ausencia de la madre que Freud explicó en Más allá del principio del placer al describir a su nieto de año y medio jugando con un carrete y un cordel.
Rapunzel’s hair or extensive braid is a vehicle by which the mother-witch figure comes and goes on her visits, an apt metaphor for the back-and-forth motion, presence and absence of the mother for the child that Freud famously elaborated in Beyond the Pleasure Principle when he described his one-and-half-year-old grandson playing with a spool and string.
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