Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
Desenvolverse
English translation:
unroll / unwind
Spanish term
Desenvolverse
"La reja del ascensor tenía flores con cáliz dorado y follajes rizados de fierro negro, donde se enganchan los ojos cuando uno está triste viendo desenvolverse, hipnotizados por las grandes serpientes, los cables del ascensor."
| 4 +2 | unroll / unwind |
claudia bagnardi
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| 4 | unwind / uncoil |
Charles Davis
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| 3 | disengage / disentangle |
DLyons
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May 18, 2013 16:41: claudia bagnardi Created KOG entry
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Proposed translations
30 years translating law and finance
Native in: Spanish 
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish, Spanish to English, and 1 more.
unroll / unwind
disengage / disentangle
unwind / uncoil
"viendo desenvolverse [...] los cables del ascensor" means "watching the lift cables unwind"; "hipnotizados por las grandes serpientes", referring to the observer's eyes, has been inserted in the middle. The cables are like coiled snakes. I sort of understand what the writer means here: watching a lift is hypnotic.
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Note added at 3 hrs (2013-05-04 23:30:21 GMT)
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Come to think of it, "uncoil" would be particularly suitable here; it fits in well with the reference to snakes.
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