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Sentence #365045

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 sysko sysko February 16, 2010 February 16, 2010 at 5:48:10 PM UTC flag Report link Permalink

can you add the [] information in comment please :)

eoi eoi February 17, 2010 February 17, 2010 at 3:55:45 AM UTC flag Report link Permalink

This is the famous first sentence of "The Pillow Book" of Sei Shonagon, probably started in 994 AD and completed sometime after 1000. Ivan Morris makes the English more explicit, "In spring it is the dawn that is most beautiful", but the shorter version seems more Sei Shonagon-like as well as following Strunk and White ("Omit needless words!").

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This sentence was initially added as a translation of sentence #365044春は曙。.

➜ #365044春は曙。

linked by eoi, February 16, 2010
In spring, the dawn. [Famous first words of "The Pillow Book" of Sei Shonagon.]

added by eoi, February 16, 2010
➜ #365046Wiosną - brzask.

linked by zipangu, February 16, 2010
In spring, the dawn.

edited by eoi, February 17, 2010
➜ #366473Im Frühling, die Morgendämmerung.

linked by lilygilder, February 19, 2010
➜ #719145Весной - восход.

linked by shanghainese, January 21, 2011
➜ #4145600Напролет, взори.

linked by Lepotdeterre, May 4, 2015
➜ #4977245En primavera, el alba.

linked by albrusgher, March 15, 2016