barlume
Italian
    
    
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /barˈlu.me/
- Rhymes: -ume
- Syllabification: bar‧lù‧me
Noun
    
barlume m (plural barlumi)
- glimmer, flicker
-  2019, George Orwell, Nicola Gardini, transl., Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mondadori:- Pensava più spesso a O'Brien, con un barlume di speranza.- He thought oftener of O’Brien, with a flickering hope.
- (literally, “He thought more often of O'Brien, with a glimmer of hope.”)
 
 
-  2012, John Green, Giorgia Grilli, transl., Colpa delle Stelle [The Fault in our Stars], Mondadori, page 44:- Data la futilità finale dei nostri sforzi, l'effimero barlume di significato che l'arte ci regala ha forse un valore?- Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable?
- (literally, “Given the final futility of our efforts, does the ephemeral glimmer of meaning that art gifts us maybe have a value?”)
 
 
 
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