English-Italian translations for phoenix

  • feniceLa speranza, come la fenice, rinasce dalla proprie ceneri, eppure, a dire il vero, i protagonisti non sembrano affatto entusiasti. Hope, like the phoenix, has risen from the ashes, and yet the truth is that the main characters involved are hardly enthusiastic. Spero che tale sospensione sia provvisoria e che i negoziati non siano ridotti in cenere, ma piuttosto che da queste ceneri possa rinascere una fenice – come ha affermato il Commissario. I hope that this suspension is provisional and that the talks are not reduced to ashes, but rather that a phoenix can rise from them – as the Commissioner has said.
  • feniceLa speranza, come la fenice, rinasce dalla proprie ceneri, eppure, a dire il vero, i protagonisti non sembrano affatto entusiasti. Hope, like the phoenix, has risen from the ashes, and yet the truth is that the main characters involved are hardly enthusiastic. Spero che tale sospensione sia provvisoria e che i negoziati non siano ridotti in cenere, ma piuttosto che da queste ceneri possa rinascere una fenice – come ha affermato il Commissario. I hope that this suspension is provisional and that the talks are not reduced to ashes, but rather that a phoenix can rise from them – as the Commissioner has said.

Definition of phoenix

  • A mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun. It then arises anew from the ashes
  • Anything that is reborn after apparently being destroyed. Usually used as a simile
  • A mythological Chinese chimerical bird whose physical body symbolizes the six celestial bodies

Examples

  • Astronomers believe planets might form in this dead stars disk, like the mythical Phoenix rising up out of the ashes.

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