Sep 24, 2014 10:45
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Polish term

pozorny spokój

Polish to English Social Sciences Education / Pedagogy
W chwilach pozornego spokoju możemy łatwo zapomnieć o zagrożeniach.

Discussion

Magdalena Szewciów Sep 24, 2014:
Ditto J.w.
Jacek Konopka Sep 24, 2014:
A szerszy kontekst może Pani podać Pani Ewo?: o jakie zagrożenia chodzi i kto może zapomnieć o takowych?

Proposed translations

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seeming peace

mix tego, co zaproponowano, lecz "prawie" to samo, czyni różnicę ;-)

"Strangely, in these whiles of seeming peace between my time of life and the time of the world of human affairs, I have experienced assaults of literary and personal malice (...)."


"Then all was seeming peace around, Was seeming peace by field and flood, — We woke — and on our lintels found The mark of death, the sign of blood."

"Appearances were deceptive, however, and for all its seeming peace Ireland was in a state of unstable equilibrium."



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"Another freezing winter descends in seeming peace upon the Northern Ontario lake where realtor Belle Palmer lives genteelly with her dog, tropical fishes and classic film collection." [Northern Winters Are Murder]

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“The seeming peace a sinner has, is not from the knowledge of his happiness, but the ignorance of his danger.”
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apparent peace

at moments of apparent peace and quiet.
Peer comment(s):

agree clairee
4 hrs
dziękuję
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6 mins

deceptive tranquility

tak bym napisał osobiście

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Holt begins by setting a mood of deceptive tranquility, meant to lull viewers into a calm out of which he can then unloose them…
http://cinepinion.blogspot.com/2009/10/scream-of-fear-1961.h...

Levinthal's ambient electronic soundscapes on Dimetrodon tend to set up a mood of deceptive tranquility that he then invades with disturbing dissonance.
http://www.amazon.com/Dimetrodon-Collective-Volume-One/dp/pr...
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seeming calm

Proposition derived from calm before the storm.
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4 hrs

false/superficial peace

IMO
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4 hrs

illusive calmness

that illusive calmness which was so calculated to mislead...

http://books.google.com/books?id=ExECAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA98&lpg=PA...

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...illusive calmness swept over her...
http://www.wattpad.com/46546143-depth-four

...find the illusive calmness and peace...
http://www.trailjournals.com/text/entry.cfm?id=83118
Example sentence:

would I find the illusive calmness and peace, wisdom and clarity for which I've been searching?

An illusive calmness swept over her and she turned away from shore,...

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apparent calmness

Don't be fooled by the apparent calmness of the valley.

http://www.doc.govt.nz/documents/parks-and-recreation/plan-a...


Example sentence:

Despite the apparent calmness of the hour there was agony in his heart.

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