{"id":831,"date":"2022-04-10T23:55:54","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T22:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/?p=831"},"modified":"2023-08-20T23:02:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T22:02:11","slug":"frases-intraducibles-spread-too-thin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/2022\/04\/10\/frases-intraducibles-spread-too-thin\/","title":{"rendered":"Untranslatable sentences: spread too thin"},"content":{"rendered":"

These last two weeks have been a bit crazy for me: tasks and meetings at work were getting on top of each other, with some of them planned and some unplanned, and to be honest, I was mad busy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And as it usually happens, it was not a case of me being very busy with one particular thing; instead, I had to take care l of multiple things at once, so I spent my days in a state of alertness, splitting my attention (or rather, dispersing it), and constantly switching between tasks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does it sound familiar?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thankfully it was only for the two weeks, and now there\u00b4s a quieter period coming up. Otherwise, I would have found it exhausting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And all of this reminds me of another one of those expressions that I really like but find impossible to translate, or at least I\u00b4m not able to translate in an elegant way, from English into Spanish: to be spread too thin.<\/em> I\u00b4m not sure whether the phrase originated here, but I remember reading something very similar in The Lord of the Rings, in words said by Bilbo Baggins: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"I feel thin, sort of stretched, like<\/strong> butter scraped over too much bread<\/strong>.\"<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think all of us may have felt this way at some point in our lives. And what can we do? Well, a few things come to mind:<\/p>\n\n\n\n