come to life | Idiomator

Meaning: (intransitive,idiomatic)Tobecomealive, to be given life; to be brought intoexistence.1999, Lee Smolin, New York Times,We All Came From Mars‎[1]:We want to know exactly how the first cellscame to lifeon earth.1995,Bill Watterson,The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book, Kansas City, MO: Andrews and McMeel, page22:I don't think of Hobbes as a doll that miraculouslycomes to lifewhen Calvin's around. Neither do I think of Hobbes as the product of Calvin's imagination... Hobbes is more about the subjective nature of reality than about dollscoming to life.; (intransitive,idiomatic)Toappearas ifalive.The CGI-generated characterscame to lifethrough an incredible display of a cutting-edge 3D technology.; (intransitive,idiomatic)Tostarttobecomeenergetic.2011October 29, Neil Johnston, “Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn”, inBBC Sport‎[2]:It was only after Yakubu sliced another chance into the side netting, a bad miss by the former Everton striker, that Norwichcame to life.

Examples:

EN: All fairy tales come to life, all dreams of secret nights...
ES: Cobran vida los cuentos de hadas, los suenos prohibidos...
EN: Sometimes they come to life.
ES: Algunas veces resucitan.
EN: That it might come to life again.
ES: Cuántas veces recé para que volviese a la vida.
EN: Then suddenly. To see her come to life.
ES: Aún siendo un recuerdo me mantuve fiel.
EN: I thought the picture had come to life.
ES: - Mi querida Lena.
EN: He'll declare himself Genghis Khan come to life again, and he'll lead hundreds of millions of men to sweep the world.
ES: Él se declarará la resurrección de Genghis Khan... y enviará hordas de millones de hombres a arrasar el mundo.
EN: Don't try and make me believe that this Ardeth fellow is a mummy come to life.
ES: No intente hacerme creer que ese Ardath es una momia.
EN: The hand of a heathen image will not come to life.
ES: La mano de la estatua no cobrará vida.
EN: He believed that after his death, at a certain hour... the image of Anubis would come to life in his tomb and receive his soul.
ES: Creía que después de morir, a una hora determinada... la imagen de Anubis cobraría vida en su tumba y recibiría su alma.
EN: And, my child... you are that figure come to life.
ES: Y, pequeña, es usted la personificación de esa figura.
EN: At last, I've seen a god come to life.
ES: Al fin, he visto a un dios cobrar vida.
EN: She's gonna get a kick outta seeing her storybook fairies come to life.
ES: Le encantará... Ver cómo los personajes De sus cuentos cobran vida.
EN: All of your knights have come to life. Hooey!
ES: Tus caballeros cobraron vida.
EN: All these things were done before you came. But suddenly they've come to life.
ES: Todas las cosas han vuelto a la vida desde que has llegado.
EN: Watching it come to life little by little.
ES: Verla cobrar vida poco a poco.

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