A change of heart

Spanish translation: cambiar de opinión / cambiar de idea

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English term or phrase:A change of heart
Spanish translation:cambiar de opinión / cambiar de idea
Entered by: Aïda Garcia Pons

16:05 Mar 30, 2009
English to Spanish translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Music
English term or phrase: A change of heart
I’ll go walking in circles
While doubting the very ground beneath me
Trying to show unquestionable faith in everything
Here am I a lifetime away from you
The blood of Christ or a change of heart

Song: Forbidden Colours (by Ryuichi Sakamoto).
Flyer466
cambiar de opinión / cambiar de idea
Explanation:
es lo que significa "a change of heart" o "to have a change of heart"
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Aïda Garcia Pons
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Summary of answers provided
4 +7cambiar de opinión / cambiar de idea
Aïda Garcia Pons
5un cambio de corazón / un cambio en el corazón
flapo
4 +1un cambio en mi corazón
Silvia Brandon-Pérez
5cambio de actitud/conversión
Wilsonn Perez Reyes
4cambio de idea
Michael Powers (PhD)
4una corazonada [que cambió mi corazón]
Paris_InterprTr
3un cambio de opinión/idea
Margarita Ezquerra (Smart Translators, S.L.)


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a change of heart
cambiar de opinión / cambiar de idea


Explanation:
es lo que significa "a change of heart" o "to have a change of heart"

Aïda Garcia Pons
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a change of heart
cambio de idea


Explanation:
Diccionario Oxford

Mike :)

Michael Powers (PhD)
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a change of heart
un cambio de opinión/idea


Explanation:
Suerte

Margarita Ezquerra (Smart Translators, S.L.)
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
a change of heart
un cambio de corazón / un cambio en el corazón


Explanation:
Se autoexplica, creo yo...

flapo
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a change of heart
un cambio en mi corazón


Explanation:
Caminaré en círculos
mientras cuestiono el mismo suelo tras mis pies
tratando de mostrar mi fe inalterable en todo
Aquí estoy yo, toda una vida nos separa
y de la sangre del Señor o de un cambio en mi corazón


Silvia Brandon-Pérez
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agree  Paris_InterprTr: if not "corazonada", that's the way to go.
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a change of heart
una corazonada [que cambió mi corazón]


Explanation:
Change of heart is a sudden change in decision, in the course of one's life, but it is not an idea or something logical. It is a *heartfelt* thing, one that you cannot resist.

Think Kate Winslet jumping back to the Titanic when she was already in the lifeboat.
Think Darth Vader suddenly grabbing the emperor and casting him down the shaft instead of finishing off Luke Skywalker...

So it *is* a change in the heart, that you can actually feel in the chest, and in this line the word "corazonada" is the strongest.
Usually it is about a hunch - the ominous feeling something is about to happen, "corazonada" also refers to the ominous feeling you are about to change the course of your life, and then you do it a second later.

On the other hand, this is a poem and maybe there is a play on words, the author suggesting that at some point he might change his whole heart and replace it with another, such as the bleeding heart of the aforementioned Jesus for instance...

Example sentence(s):
  • "...and after receiving his payment [Han Solo] parts ways with the rebels. However, near the end of the film, <b>he has a change of heart</b>, and returns at a critical moment in the film's climactic battle scene..."

    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Solo
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a change of heart
cambio de actitud/conversión


Explanation:
Considerando el contexto, creo que se trata de más que un cambio de idea o de opinión: un cambio de actitud, o incluso una conversión.

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Note added at 1 hr (2009-03-30 17:54:10 GMT)
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Otra opción: "renacimiento espiritual".

Wilsonn Perez Reyes
El Salvador
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