Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
short time
Spanish translation:
shortage (Instead of short time): escasos
English term
Reliable and accurate
Native in: Spanish (Variant: Standard-Spain) 
, Catalan (Variant: Central)
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English, English to Catalan, and 2 more.
short time of the world
Se trata de un horror de contrato en chino y en "inglés", en el que pueden encontrarse perlas de este tipo. ¿A alguien con imaginación se le ocurre qué puede querer decir? A mi ya se me ha agotado.
| 3 +1 | shortage (Instead of short time): escasos |
Walter Landesman
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| 3 | están escaseando en el mundo |
Jairo Payan
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| 3 | pertenecerán en poco tiempo a todos |
Alba Mora
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| 2 | deteriorarse en poco tiempo |
Rosa Enciso
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Mar 13, 2006 14:19: Walter Landesman changed "Field" from "Other" to "Law/Patents" , "Field (specific)" from "Other" to "Linguistics"
Proposed translations
Uruguay
Translation services since 1986
Native in: Spanish (Variants: Uruguayan, Argentine)
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish
shortage (Instead of short time): escasos
shortage (Instead of short time) has a similar sound. It might have been a typo or a "chinese" misspelling. And shortage does make sense. May be somebody was dictating and the person writing the words down got mixed up.
Good luck.
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Marina56
: Creo que tienes razón, me parece la más adecuada.
3 days 22 hrs
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Muchas gracias Marina
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Colombia
"Knowledge and quality"
Native in: Spanish
Works in: English to Spanish, Portuguese to Spanish, Spanish to English, and 1 more.
están escaseando en el mundo
Ojalá salgan otras opciones para aprender a decifrar este tipo de errores.
"Los materiales hechos a partir del silicio están escaseando en el mundo algo que el vendedor no puede controlar"
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Note added at 7 mins (2006-03-08 17:00:19 GMT)
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Marque 2 en nivel de confianza pero me salió 3.
Germany
In love with my profession
Native in: Spanish (Variant: Standard-Spain) , French (Variants: Swiss, Belgian, Standard-France)
Works in: German to Spanish, German to French, Spanish to French, and 2 more.
deteriorarse en poco tiempo
Suerte!
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