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Ejercicio de traducción #2 (EN > ES)
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Language Barriers
Language barriers are holding back science. English is the language of science, but a third of research is not in English. Researchers said scientists miss a lot of important research. Journals should have summaries of a study in many languages. They said universities should translate research into different languages.
International companies are asking staff to use only English to reduce language barriers. Volkswagen said English is its official language. Japan's carmaker Honda said its staff must use English by 2020. Scientists need to be serious about this. The WHO missed important research about avian flu because it was in Chinese.
Source: breakingnewsenglish.com
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TRADUCCIÓN
Las barreras del idioma
Las barreras del idioma están impidiendo el avance de la ciencia. El inglés es el idioma de la ciencia, pero más de un tercio de las investigaciónes no son en inglés. Los investigadores comentan/dicen que los científicos pierden muchas de las investigaciónes importantes. Las revistas deben tener resúmenes de una/cada investigación en muchos idiomas. Han dicho que las universidades deben traducir las investigaciónes en idiomas diferentes.
Las empresas internacionales están pidiendo a sus empleados usar sólo inglés para reducir las barreras del idioma. Volkswagen ha dicho que el inglés es su idioma oficial. El fabricante japonés de coches, Honda, ha dicho que sus empleados deben usar inglés para 2020. Los científicos tienen que estar serios sobre este tema (tienen que tomarse en serio este tema). La OMS perdió investigaciones esenciales sobre la gripe aviar porque estaba en chino.
Fuente: breakingnewsenglish.com0 votedFebruary 13, 20171- Review Restaurant Review. Last day I went to a new vegan restaurant which has been opened near to Gran Vía, in Madrid. Since I stopped eating meat I do not have a lot of options in traditional restaurants and I wanted to eat something different, so I went with some friends. The restaurant is called Shishang, and it's actually a vegan Chinese restaurant. In the first place, the atmosphere was cool, it's a beautiful restaurant and the staff were so nice with us. They have a lot of different vegan food and imitations of real Chinese meals, like vegan sweet and sour pork, prawns, chicken ... and they also taste and look similar to the "real" ones! It's amazing. I ordered vegan veal with bamboo and Chinese mushrooms and it was delicious. Usually, vegan or vegetarian food are much more expensive than the regular food, but in this case the prices were like in other non-vegan Chinese restaurants. These kind of restaurants are a great option for vegan and vegetarian people and also for the omnivore people who want to try something new and explore different nutritional options that people couldn't imagine years ago. _______ THANK YOU!February 13, 201710
- RESTAURANT REVIEW Restaurant Review. Last day I went to a new vegan restaurant which has been opened near to Gran Vía, in Madrid. Since I stopped eating meat I do not have a lot of options in traditional restaurants and I wanted to eat something different, so I went with some friends. The restaurant is called Shishang, and it's actually a vegan Chinese restaurant. In the first place, the atmosphere was cool, it's a beautiful restaurant and the staff were so nice with us. They have a lot of different vegan food and imitations of real Chinese meals, like vegan sweet and sour pork, prawns, chicken ... and they also taste and look similar to the "real" ones! It's amazing. I ordered vegan veal with bamboo and Chinese mushrooms and it was delicious. Usually, vegan or vegetarian food are much more expensive than the regular food, but in this case the prices were like in other non-vegan Chinese restaurants. These kind of restaurants are a great option for vegan and vegetarian people and also for the omnivore people who want to try something new and explore different nutritional options that people couldn't imagine years ago. _______ THANK YOU!November 28, 201600
- ESSAY: Adventure Tourism - Do you think adventure tourism in inexplored parts of the world should be encouraged?- Adventure tourism is gaining importance in the last years as a new form of travel, people likes to live different and exciting things in their free time instead of the traditional ways based on relaxing. This new forms of amusement are usually done in natural places, what can affect the animals and plants that live there. Human beings have controlled most of superfice of Earth, and this has affected the environtment in a very dangerous ways: pollution, deforestation, floods, forest fires… Some parts of the world luckily have survived the horror human can do in natural places, but they are in danger for the bussiness opportunitys they have, and one of them is tourism. Besides the fact that tourism in inexplored parts can be dangerous for the people that “enjoy” this kind of tourism, this places and their wildlife can be destroyed easily by the human action: cutting down trees, killing animals, river engineering… Adventure tourism has a lot more of terrible aspects than positive ones, so I think it should be forbidden or just allowed for activities that doesn’t need changes in the natural wildlife. _______________ THANK YOU!November 26, 201620
- WHAT I’D SAVE IN A FIRE (Informal Article). Imagine your house is on fire, literally, and you only have the opportunity to save just one thing. This is a typical joke question that can give you a lot of information about people, depending on what they really care and letting them think about their priorities. In my case, I have a lot of things that I would save immediately, but I think I would choose my camera. My camera is a Canon EOS 100D I bought 5 years ago, which is not the best of all the reflex cameras, but it’s really important for me because I’m studying photography and I need it in my job and other personal projects I’ve been doing this years, and also other video projects I’m starting to do now. Emotionally it’s also important because it was my first professional camera, and it has some pictures inside that are special for me. Some people can feel love for some objects, but I think this is because they are really important for them in a lot of aspects. And the reflex cameras and the lenses they use are so expensive that I couldn’t buy a new one in a million years, which is also a good point for save them in a fire. ______________________ THANK YOU SO MUCH!November 15, 201631
El banquete de hambre, cuarta parte (con traducción al inglés)
Después de que todos hubiesen conseguido comida, la habitación se reunió para una discusión. La coordinadora del programa nos leyó unas estatísticas: Cada once minutos, un niño se (no es necesario totalmente, no se refiere a un niño concreto) muere por desnutrición; el sesenta por ciento del mundo vive en la pobreza; el veinte por ciento de los niños (en este caso no se refiere a hijos de nadie concreto) en EE.UU viven por debajo del umbral de la pobreza.
Al fin y al cabo, no era muy fácil disfrutar de mi comida.
Los coordinadores nos avisaron/informaron acerca de oportunidades para ayudar a los necesitados en nuestra comunidad, como la distribución de comida en la despensa de alimentos o la preparación de cajas de comida para la Acción de Gracias. Pero después de discutir del asunto en una escala tan grande, estos esfuerzos me parecieron sin sentido. ¿Cuánto bien haría verdaderamente si trabajaba en la despensa de alimentos una hora por semana?
Al final, todo el mundo estaba invitado a comer la comida que previamente había sido reservada para el grupo de altos ingresos. Traté de imaginar la vida de alguien que en realidad no tenía con qué vivir. No logré a hacerlo.
--> ¡Buen trabajo!0 votedNovember 4, 20161- Is it better to have older or younger parents? -- ESSAY All families are different and every of them have good and bad things, it depends of a lot of other personal characteristics that are not related to the age of the parents, and it also depends of the perspective or opinion you have about your personal situation, it’s a really subjective point. Trying to be objective, in a family with younger parents maybe all the members of the family can share more hobbies, because their age gap is small and it’s easier to talk about topics that older people can’t understand. On the other hand, having older parents can be positive because they can teach their children a lot of different things about their past, like old groups of music, history, movies… In other practical terms, older parents can have more experience in parenting if they have been parents before, but if they haven’t, there is not so much diference between an older and a younger couple. In the economic point, older people usually have a more stable and a better economic situation that younger people, but it also depends of the family. In conclusion, age gap maybe it’s not so important because it depends of a lot of different situations. The most important about having a child is being emocional and economicaly prepared and give them the importance that they have, trying to do the best for form a good person in the future. ___________________________________________ Thank you so much!!!!November 4, 201640
Un texto (DELE B2)
Esa es mi composición y ¿podrían ustedes corregirla y darme alguna expresión que suene más natural y elegante si he escrito mal?Les doy las gracias de antemano por su atención. ;)
Aunque a pocos estudiantes les gustara hacer exámenes, no podemos negar que, como una manera indispensable de evaluación, la existencia de los exámenes es muy necesaria (/que haya exámenes es muy necesario).
No obstante, a la vez, el estudio les desencadena bastante estrés. Comparado con las tensiones acarreadas por el entorno universitario, los estudiantes estando inmersos en las agobiantes tareas del colegio sufren mucha más presión.
Según los encuestados, una gran cantidad de los cree que están sobrecargados y les falta tiempo suficiente para acabar sus actividades académicas.
Desde mi punto de vista, en la sociedad actual cada individuo se tropieza cada vez con mayores desafíos y competencia. Dada esta situación, es comprensible que se les exija cada vez de forma más estricta.
En conclusión, por un lado los estudiantes deberían acostumbrarse al estrés, por otro lado, a los rectores, les hace falta poner en su conocimiento la gran tensión con las que se enfrentan los alumnos y llevar a cabo las acciones necesarias para aliviar estas presiones/ esta presión.0 votedOctober 21, 20160Hoy es un día de lluvia.
Hoy es un día muy lluvioso. Anoche las lluvias venía sin la persuasión. Les gusta caer. Les gusta a moverse rapidamente. Las lluvias no tienen una razón sino de caer del cielo. No tienen un motivo más que este.
Hoy es un dia ventoso. El viento roza la lluvia. A veces el viento roza la lluvia con fuerza y el resultado único de la lluvia es moverse con el viento.
Hoy es un día de emociones. Emociones tristes, emociones no fáciles de entender. Nadie lo sabe. Nadie saben estas emociones o por qué las lluvias caen en la manera en que lo hacen. Nadie conoce al viento en la manera en que la lluvia lo hace.
Solo quiero dormir por los sonidos de lluvia y el calor de tu corazón.-------------- Ha sido un poco difícil de corregir porque es muy poético, pero creo que lo he corregido como lo querías expresar. Buen trabajo ;)
0 votedOctober 19, 20160- INFORMAL EMAIL. Hi! I have writen and informal email for an exercise of my English-book. The purpose is to explain what we do in my city in the evenings to a student called Max. If you could correct me it would be great, thank you so much. "Hi Max, nice to meet you! It’s great that you are coming to Madrid! I’m sure you are going to have a good time here, it’s a great city with a lot of things to do. First of all, what are you studying? I’m studying Advertising and Public Relations in the University Complutense, so maybe we can go together in the subway in the mornings! Classes finish at 13.00 pm, so then, maybe we can go out for some drinks or something, Madrid has a lot of cheap and great pubs which are perfect for young people and students, just in case you like beer so much as I do. I think is a good plan for meet each other. In the evenings, people use to go to drink something in the terraces of the bars too and talk about different things, and then sometimes we go to some nightclub in the center. There is also some squares where you can find a lot of people drinking in the street, which is a perfect way to know different people and make friends, like "2 de Mayo Square" in Malasaña, although it’s not legal. Other place I like to go is Chueca, which is recognized as being the “gay zone”, people also drink in the street and have a good time with friends or other people, and the bars in that zone are great. Maybe you think is a lot of drinking, but well, we are young and you’re in Spain, so have fun! Hope to see you! Alba".October 19, 201620
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