{"id":15827,"date":"2018-03-02T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T08:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/?p=15827"},"modified":"2018-03-01T12:52:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T11:52:08","slug":"ice-and-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/ice-and-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice and Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">Here&#8217;s my English translation of Serena&#8217;s recent article <a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/gelo-e-fuoco\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Gelo e Fuoco<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #808080\"><strong>Quando da bambina vidi il film &#8216;Dottor Zivago&#8217;, la scena che mi fece pi\u00f9 impressione \u00e8 quella in cui Zivago e Lara passano la notte in una casa isolata, in mezzo alla bufera di neve, coi lupi che ululano fuori. Quella notte non riuscii a dormire e rimasi sveglia, con la coperta tirata sugli occhi, tutta tesa, in ascolto del vento e dei lupi.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nWhen, as a child, I saw the film Doctor Zhivago, the scene that impressed me the most was that in which Zhivago and Lara spend the night in an isolated house in the middle of a snowstorm with the wolves howling outside. That night I couldn&#8217;t get to sleep, and stayed awake, tense, with the blanket pulled over my eyes,\u00a0 listening for the wind and the wolves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><span style=\"color: #808080\">Non che fosse molto probabile che io venissi attaccata da un branco di lupi in mezzo ad una bufera di neve, perch\u00e9 a quei tempi abitavo a Bengasi, in nord Africa! Oggi per\u00f2, col vento siberiano Burian che infuria fuori di casa, mi \u00e8 tornata in mente quella scena, e mi sembra di sentire davvero i lupi che ululano!<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nNot that it was very probable that I&#8217;d be attacked by a pack of wolves in the middle of a snowstorm, because at the time I lived in Benghazi, in North Africa! Today, however, with the Siberian Burian wind that rages outside our house, that scene came back to mind, and it seems like I really can hear the wolves howling!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15823\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/02\/Dec-07-047.jpg\" aria-label=\"Dec 07 047\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15823\" class=\"wp-image-15823 size-full\"  alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/02\/Dec-07-047.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/02\/Dec-07-047.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/02\/Dec-07-047-350x263.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/02\/Dec-07-047-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15823\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #808080\"><em><strong>Vicino a casa nostra.<\/strong> Near our house. Photo by Geoff<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><span style=\"color: #808080\">Ieri pomeriggio c&#8217;era un bel cielo azzurro e cos\u00ec abbiamo deciso di fare una passeggiata! Ma appena usciti dai punti riparati siamo stati investiti da questo vento gelido che si infiltrava dappertutto, malgrado ci fossimo ben coperti. E col freddo si infilavano dei piccolissimi cristalli di ghiaccio portati dal vento, che facevano parecchio male.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nYesterday afternoon there was a beautiful blue sky, and so we decide to go for a walk! But as soon as we left the sheltered areas we were hit by this gelid wind that filtered in everywhere, despite us being well wrapped up. And with the cold, tiny ice crystals carried by the wind found their way in, and they really hurt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><span style=\"color: #808080\">Il vento, come l&#8217;acqua, non lo puoi fermare in nessun modo, entra dappertutto, trova microscopiche aperture per passare, sia che si tratti del gelido Burian siberiano, sia che si tratti del rovente Ghibli sahariano.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nJust like water, there&#8217;s no way to stop the wind, it gets in everywhere, finding microscopic openings to pass through, whether it&#8217;s the freezing Siberian Burian or the red hot Ghibli of the Sahara.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><span style=\"color: #808080\">Io sono cresciuta col Ghibli, che invece del freddo porta un gran caldo, e invece dei fiocchi gelati porta la terra finissima del deserto. Questa polvere entrava dappertutto, anche se tenevamo le finestre e le porte chiuse, le pentole coperte e i bicchieri rovesciati. Dovevamo risciacquare piatti e bicchieri prima di usarli, ma sotto ai denti sentivamo sempre lo scricchiolare della terra.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nI grew up with the Ghibli that brings not the cold but sweltering heat, and rather than frozen snow flakes carries very fine soil from the desert. This dust got in everywhere, even if we kept the windows and doors closed, the saucepans covered and the glasses turned upside down. We had to rinse the plates and glasses before using them, but we always felt the crunching of soil between our teeth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><span style=\"color: #808080\">Andare al mare era troppo pericoloso perch\u00e9 si creava una forte corrente che portava velocemente al largo, e stare sulla spiaggia era un supplizio perch\u00e9 il vento soffiava i grossi granelli di sabbia che ti colpivano come schegge di vetro.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nGoing to the seaside was too dangerous because it created a strong current that carried you quickly out to sea, and being on the beach was torture because the wind blew large grains of sand which hit you like shards of glass.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><span style=\"color: #808080\">Quando il Ghibli cessava, il pavimento di casa era ricoperto da uno spesso strato di polvere che si poteva eliminare solo gettando secchi d&#8217;acqua per terra e spazzandola poi fuori di casa. Le lenzuola e i letti erano pieni di sabbia, cos\u00ec come i nostri abiti, la nostra pelle e i nostri capelli. Tutto andava lavato.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nWhen the Ghibli died down, the floor of our house was covered with a thick layer of dust which you could only get rid of by throwing buckets of water on it and then sweeping it outside. The sheets and the beds were full of sand, as were our clothes, our skin, and our hair. Everything had to be washed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><span style=\"color: #808080\">Ma fra il Burian e il Ghibli preferisco il Ghibli!<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nBut between the Burian and the Ghibli I prefer the Ghibli!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/03\/Dec-07-047-350x263.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/03\/Dec-07-047-350x263.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/03\/Dec-07-047-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/03\/Dec-07-047.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Here&#8217;s my English translation of Serena&#8217;s recent article Gelo e Fuoco. Quando da bambina vidi il film &#8216;Dottor Zivago&#8217;, la scena che mi fece pi\u00f9 impressione \u00e8 quella in cui Zivago e Lara passano la notte in una casa isolata, in mezzo alla bufera di neve, coi lupi che ululano fuori. Quella notte non riuscii&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/ice-and-fire\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":15835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[619,2588],"tags":[351067,474363,474364],"class_list":["post-15827","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-italian-language","category-translation","tag-italian-to-english-translation","tag-the-italian-weather","tag-winter-in-italy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15827"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15834,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15827\/revisions\/15834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}