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English to Italian: The Ship That Found Herself - Kipling General field: Art/Literary Detailed field: Poetry & Literature
Source text - English It was her first voyage, and though she was but a cargo-steamer of twenty-five hundred tons, she was the very best of her kind, the outcome of forty years of experiments and improvements in framework and machinery; and her designers and owner thought as much of her as though she had been the Lucania. Any one can make a floating hotel that will pay expenses, if he puts enough money into the saloon, and charges for private baths, suites of rooms, and such like; but in these days of competition and low freights every square inch of a cargo-boat must be built for cheapness, great hold-capacity, and a certain steady speed. This boat was, perhaps, two hundred and forty feet long and thirty-two feet wide, with arrangements that enabled her to carry cattle on her main and sheep on her upper deck if she wanted to; but her great glory was the amount of cargo that she could store away in her holds. Her owners — they were a very well known Scotch firm came round with her from the north, where she had been launched and christened and fitted, to Liverpool, where she was to take cargo for New York; and the owner’s daughter, Miss Frazier, went to and fro on the clean decks, admiring the new paint and the brass work, and the patent winches, and particularly the strong, straight bow, over which she had cracked a bottle of champagne when she named the steamer the Dimbula. It was a beautiful September afternoon, and the boat in all her newness she was painted lead-colour with a red funnel — looked very fine indeed. Her house-flag was flying, and her whistle from time to time acknowledged the salutes of friendly boats, who saw that she was new to the High and Narrow Seas and wished to make her welcome.
Translation - Italian Era il suo primo viaggio, e nonostante fosse solo una nave a vapore da carico di 2.500 tonnellate, era la migliore nel suo genere, il risultato di quaranta anni di esperimenti e miglioramenti alla struttura e alle parti meccaniche; e sia i costruttori che il proprietario pensavano lo stesso di lei, come se fosse stata la Lucania. Chiunque può costruire un hotel galleggiante che sosterrà le spese, se mette abbastanza denaro nel salone, e paga per bagni privati, suite e simili; ma in questi tempi di competizione e di bassi costi di trasporto, ogni centimetro quadrato di una nave da carico deve essere costruito considerando convenienza, grande capacità delle stive, e una certa velocità costante. Questa nave aveva, forse, una lunghezza di 73 metri e una larghezza di 9, con una sistemazione tale da permettere il trasporto di bovini sul ponte principale e di pecore sul ponte superiore, in caso avesse voluto; ma la grande gloria stava nella quantità di merci che poteva immagazzinare nelle stive. I proprietari – un’azienda scozzese molto conosciuta – erano partiti con lei dal nord, dove era stata varata, battezzata e preparata, fino a Liverpool, dove si trovava per prendere le merci dirette a New York; e la figlia del proprietario, la signorina Frazier, andava avanti e indietro sui ponti puliti, ammirando la pittura fresca e la lavorazione in ottone, e gli argani brevettati, e soprattutto la prua resistente e dritta su cui aveva scagliato una bottiglia di champagne quando aveva dato alla nave il nome di Dimbula. Era un meraviglioso pomeriggio di settembre, e la nave in tutta la sua novità – dipinta color piombo con un fumaiolo rosso – appariva veramente magnifica. La bandiera della casa stava sventolando, e ogni tanto il fischio ricambiava i saluti delle navi amichevoli, che vedevano che era nuova sulla Manica e in alto mare e volevano darle il benvenuto.
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I was born in Rome and I have alwaye been passionate about languages and music. I have recently completed my Master's degree in translation, studying translations from English and Spanish into Italian in different fields, from medicine, to law up to technology and literature. I also attended a course on Post-Editing and Machine Translation. I am constantly learning about new technologies, science and progress, and I volunteer as a translator for TED and for the ESO, as I am also interested in Astronomy.
I was born in a family of musicians and I started practising the violin when I was very little and I never stopped since then, participating in numerous concerts in the most diverse contexts. Amongst the most prestigious locations I played inside the Coliseum, the Teatro dell'Opera of Rome and in the S. Cecilia Hall inside the Auditorium Parco della Musica.
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