Dec 1, 2011 18:51
12 yrs ago
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Spanish term
United States
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Native in: English 
Works in: Spanish to English
se nos sale de las manos
Spanish to English
Bus/Financial
Business/Commerce (general)
This is in text from an interview with an employee in Nicaragua, who is talking about identifying climatic and environmental threats and what to do about them:
... debe tener la habilidad de identificar las amenazas y donden se nos sale de las manos esas amenazas para que podamos demostrar nosotros donde esta la visionalidad del cambio climatico.
Thanks.
... debe tener la habilidad de identificar las amenazas y donden se nos sale de las manos esas amenazas para que podamos demostrar nosotros donde esta la visionalidad del cambio climatico.
Thanks.
Proposed translations
(English)
Proposed translations
+3
10 mins
Ion Zubizarreta
Spain
Spain
Native in Spanish
Spain
Audiovisual Translator - ENG>ESL/BAQ
Native in: Basque 
, Spanish
Works in: English to Spanish, English to Basque, Spanish to Basque, and 1 more.
Related KudoZ points
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4
Selected
and when these threats get out of hand
The quality of the Spanish used in the source text is quite bad. This would be my way of translating the required extract.
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Note added at 10 days (2011-12-12 13:35:49 GMT)
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"get out of hand
if a situation gets out of hand, it cannot be controlled any more Things got a little out of hand at the party and three windows were broken. In my first year at college my drinking got a bit out of hand."
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/get out of hand
"get out of hand v (become uncontrolled) irse de las manos loc
The party got out of hand, and a neighbour called the police.
La fiesta se nos fue de las manos y un vecino llamó a la policía".
http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=get...
http://www.linguee.es/ingles-espanol/traduccion/get out of h...
http://www.linguee.es/ingles-espanol/traduccion/get out of h...
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Note added at 10 days (2011-12-12 13:35:49 GMT)
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"get out of hand
if a situation gets out of hand, it cannot be controlled any more Things got a little out of hand at the party and three windows were broken. In my first year at college my drinking got a bit out of hand."
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/get out of hand
"get out of hand v (become uncontrolled) irse de las manos loc
The party got out of hand, and a neighbour called the police.
La fiesta se nos fue de las manos y un vecino llamó a la policía".
http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=get...
http://www.linguee.es/ingles-espanol/traduccion/get out of h...
http://www.linguee.es/ingles-espanol/traduccion/get out of h...
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
+1
1 min
Andrew Bramhall
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Native in English
United Kingdom
Flair and accuracy tailored to your text
Native in: English
Works in: Spanish to English, German to English
Related KudoZ points
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18
And when these are out of our hands...
'these' being the climatic and environmental threats.
Peer comment(s):
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Charles Davis
: I think this is what it means: "out of our hands" rather than "out of hand".
1 hr
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Thanks. Yes, beyond our control, rather than escalation in size.
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6 mins
jmleger
Specializes in field
escape our grasp
Just a suggestion
31 mins
Paul García
United States
United States
Native in Spanish
&
English
Specializes in field
United States
calidad y rapidez / quality and speed
Native in: English , Spanish
Works in: Spanish to English, English to Spanish
Related KudoZ points
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12
get out of hand
como diríamos en inglés,
when these threats get out of hand
when these threats get out of hand
+2
33 mins
become overwhelming / spiral out of control
www.nswnurses.asn.au/news/33334.html - Traducir esta página
6 May 2011 – Climate change will affect the health of most populations in the next decades ... for the threat of climate change for humankind to be seen as a health issue. ... the implications of climate change on health as the overwhelming ...; www.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6092564.stm - Traducir esta página
28 Oct 2006 – Droughts are becoming more frequent, the report says ... Climate change is an "unprecedented" threat to food security, it says. ... "Climate change is overwhelming the situation in Africa... unless we take genuine steps now to ...; www.guardian.co.uk/.../obama-climate-change - Traducir esta página
18 Jan 2009 – 'We have only four years left to act on climate change - America has to ... by a global greenhouse catastrophe that is spiralling out of control ...; www.anped.org/index.php?part=554 - Traducir esta página
Many are agreed that climate change may be one of the greatest threats ... years and may begin melting entirely in the summer months as early as 2020. ... Here are the mechanisms that could lead to climate change spiraling out of control: ...; europedia.moussis.eu/.../discus-1262342635-962... - Traducir esta página
The EU had placed great expectations on the UN climate change conference in .... Climate change is a global threat that only global action can address effectively. ... to begin negotiations on a new global regime to tackle climate change for after 2012, ... the threshold beyond which climate change may spiral out of control. ...;
Climate: Time's Up - we will always have ten years
www.oilempire.us/climate-time.html -
Peak OIl climate crisis 9/11 World War IV media homeland security vote fraud ..... Hurricane Rita) catalyzes public awareness of the threat of climate change. ... the extinction crisis and the climate crisis will begin to spiral out of control," said ...
6 May 2011 – Climate change will affect the health of most populations in the next decades ... for the threat of climate change for humankind to be seen as a health issue. ... the implications of climate change on health as the overwhelming ...; www.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6092564.stm - Traducir esta página
28 Oct 2006 – Droughts are becoming more frequent, the report says ... Climate change is an "unprecedented" threat to food security, it says. ... "Climate change is overwhelming the situation in Africa... unless we take genuine steps now to ...; www.guardian.co.uk/.../obama-climate-change - Traducir esta página
18 Jan 2009 – 'We have only four years left to act on climate change - America has to ... by a global greenhouse catastrophe that is spiralling out of control ...; www.anped.org/index.php?part=554 - Traducir esta página
Many are agreed that climate change may be one of the greatest threats ... years and may begin melting entirely in the summer months as early as 2020. ... Here are the mechanisms that could lead to climate change spiraling out of control: ...; europedia.moussis.eu/.../discus-1262342635-962... - Traducir esta página
The EU had placed great expectations on the UN climate change conference in .... Climate change is a global threat that only global action can address effectively. ... to begin negotiations on a new global regime to tackle climate change for after 2012, ... the threshold beyond which climate change may spiral out of control. ...;
Climate: Time's Up - we will always have ten years
www.oilempire.us/climate-time.html -
Peak OIl climate crisis 9/11 World War IV media homeland security vote fraud ..... Hurricane Rita) catalyzes public awareness of the threat of climate change. ... the extinction crisis and the climate crisis will begin to spiral out of control," said ...
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Noni Gilbert Riley
: Yes: unfortunately in English, get out of hand sounds like something of an understatement.
2 hrs
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Thanks, Noni. I just finished editing the text for a photo essay on climate refugees and environmental migrants: beautiful work but a sobering subject.
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| agree |
Krassi Kostova
: spiral out of control
3 hrs
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Cheers and thanks, Krassi.
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Karen Vincent-Jones (X)
: These are 2 quite different answers- which one are you posting?
21 hrs
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They are two ways of looking at the same phenomenon.
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7 hrs
ertraducciones
Mexico
Mexico
Native in Spanish
Works in field
Mexico
¡Make a special link between languages!
Native in: Spanish
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English
Related KudoZ points
:
4
it is out of our hands
when we say something is our of our hands, it means it´s out of our control
Example sentence:
I do not have the solution it´s out of my hands
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