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Polish translation: widać las spoza drzew

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English term or phrase:	forrest/wood for the trees
Polish translation:	widać las spoza drzew
Entered by:	Kamila Sławińska

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17:15 Nov 28, 2009

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English term or phrase: forrest/wood for the trees

Tekst jest opisem zalet komputerowego narzedzia, sluzacego organizacji i zarzadzania informacja; moj problem polega na tym, jak wybrnac ze szczegolowego omowienia, bazujacego na idiomie nie majacego dpowiednika w jezyku polskim. Ponizej cale zdanie, z ktorym walcze:

This is not just seeing ‘the wood for the trees’, it is getting an ‘aerial’ view of the whole Amazon rainforest while simultaneously zooming into a single jungle hardwood tree, then on to the leaf and vine, and then on to the veins of the leaf and beyond into the chemical molecules of the leaf, and so on ad infinitum.

Kamila Sławińska KudoZ activity Questions: 138 (3 open) (10 closed without grading) Answers: 116 United States
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widać las spoza drzew

Explanation:
Sprobowalabym jednak zachowac idiom, bo jest przyjety.
Nie widzieć lasu spoza drzew - koncentrowac sie na detalach, nie dostrzegac sedna.
Nie tylko widać tu las spoza drzew, widać tu cala amazonska dżunglę zlotu ptaka...

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http://www.google.co.nz/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4GZEZ_enNZ341NZ34...

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Bubz
Local time: 05:07

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3 +1

widać las spoza drzew

Bubz

3 +1

las

Jakub Szacki

[zobaczyć] dżunglę spoza drzew

Adam Jarczyk

Discussion entries: 2

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1 hr confidence:

[zobaczyć] dżunglę spoza drzew

Explanation:
Moja propozycja. Idiom "nie widzieć lasu spoza drzew" jest używany w języku polskim, tu proponuję sparafrazować.

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Na przykład tutaj: http://www.lask-kolumna.pl/?id=artykuly&kat=2&art_id=55
albo tutaj: http://www.bankowa.pl/wiecej.php?id=m0-875 "Pozwala to studentom nie tylko dostrzec las spoza drzew, (...)"

Adam Jarczyk
Poland
Local time: 19:07
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PRO pts in category: 4

Notes to answerer

Asker: Nie udało mi się wygooglać przykładu użycia takiej frazy w polskim tekście - czy mogłabym prosic o jakiś fragment, gdzie ten zwrot występuje?

6 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

las

Explanation:
a ja bym zbytnio nie kombinował. Byłoby: to nie jest po prostu oglądanie lasu, tylko... itd. Sens zachowany, jak sądzę.

Jakub Szacki
Poland
Local time: 19:07
Native speaker of:

Polish

1 day4 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

widać las spoza drzew

Bubz
Local time: 05:07
Native speaker of:

Polish
PRO pts in category: 57

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