GR translation: bearing his loneliness

[Paul Mackin]

On 10/28/2011 10:30 AM, David Morris wrote:
> Actually "bearing" is very straightforward (not hard to translate at all):

Unless of course "carry" and "tolerate" don't happen to be the same word 
in Chinese.

My own choice would be to use the word for "tolerate"

In Merriam-Webster International 3, "bear" has well over a column of 
usages, and these are long columns in very small print.

I remember from high school Latin that "bear" was the funnist irregular 
verb.  Fero, ferre, tuli, latus.

P

>
> Irregular Verb - To Bear
>
> Meaning:
>
> To carry
> To tolerate
> To give birth to
>
> Conjugation of 'To Bear'
>
> Base Form:  Bear
> Past Simple:  Bore
> Past Participle:  Born/Borne
> 3rd Person Singular:  Bears
> Present Participle/Gerund:  Bearing
>
> So "bearing" would mean carrying, and would imply from the description
> of that loneliness (brittle, easily crazed, oozing gum from the
> cracks, a strange mac of most unstable plastic...) that his carrying
> is visible to others.
>
> "Oozing gum" is what some tree do when "wounded."  Gum and sap are
> synonymous.  Chewing gum was originally made from tree sap.
>
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Mike Jing
> <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> P152.32-35  Among these nights' faint and lusting couples, Ronald
>> Cherrycoke's laughing and bearing his loneliness, brittle, easily
>> crazed, oozing gum from the cracks, a strange mac of most unstable
>> plastic...
>>
>> Even I can see it now, here "bearing" is another one of those words
>> that evokes so many different shades of meaning that it is almost
>> impossible to translate properly.
>>
>> What about "gum"?  Does it have double meaning here as well?
>>