Perceives the dulled pain of his cheek scraping against the ice, and feels how something seems to be squeezing the insides of his chest in a big, merciless fist.
Over the following months, she gradually started to experience various neurological symptoms — the bottoms of her feet became numb, and this spread to her lower legs along with a dull pain.
Thinking Chinese Translation A Course in Translation Method Chinese to English
A Chinese pain that feels 'sour' is probably felt by a British patient as a 'dull ache'. The translator must feel that sour pain as a Chinese patient feels it, and turn it empathetically into a dull English ache.
I'm going to introduce you to tension headaches – that's the first kind of dull ache that lots of us get, quite regularly actually, and also vascular headaches – those are the migraines and the cluster headaches of this world.
He says he " felt a sharp pain, and thought it was something serious, but it doesn't hurt much now." Now, he says, " There's just a dull (dull) pain" when he tries to sit up straight – when he tries to sit normally.