Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

quotes

Spanish translation:

contexto

Added to glossary by Ramon Inglada
Nov 3, 2005 16:43
18 yrs ago
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English term

quotes

Homework / test English to Spanish Art/Literary Cinema, Film, TV, Drama japanese films
this decade represents ten years marked by public passion, the spectacle of governments struggling to contain their people's energies, and the shifts in consciusness that lead to new approaches to artistic _expression. In Japan historians have the convenient bookends of the U.S. security treaty renewals, but for our purposes we must place the sixties in scare quotes.

Discussion

S�lo una nota para comentar que en realidad la pregunta debi� ser por "square quotes". Aqu� una explicaci�n: http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=scare quote

Proposed translations

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contexto

En este caso, creo que se refiere a contexto, situación, coyuntura.

"... tenemos que colocar a la década de los sesenta en un contexto de miedo/inestabilidad/temor."
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comillas

SAludos
Gerardo
Peer comment(s):

agree ojinaga
21 mins
Gracias Ojinaga
agree Tomás Cano Binder, BA, CT : Sí, entre comillas para indicar que lo encerrado entre comillas no es tal como preferiría expresarlo el autor.
16 hrs
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11 mins

entre interrogantes

sé que scare quotes son comillas, pero lo que quieren los autores es cuestionarse esa década, por lo que interrogantes me parece más apropiado en este caso
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