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a tall order

Spanish translation: tarea difícil

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English term or phrase:	a tall order
Spanish translation:	tarea difícil
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15:24 May 12, 2006

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Tech/Engineering - Engineering: Industrial

English term or phrase: a tall order

¿Cómo podría traducir "a tall order" en el siguiente contexto?

In order to understand and participate in the coordination of varios contributions, a central controlling party therefore must be multi-lingual. This is a tall order if the composition of a design team includes a wide variety of experts, each speaking very specialized languages.

Muchas gracias.

MAA KudoZ activity Questions: 655 (7 open) (61 closed without grading) Answers: 27
Local time: 08:32

tarea difícil

Explanation:
Una opción

Selected response from:

Idoia Echenique
Spain
Local time: 08:32

Grading comment

Muchas gracias. Es la mejora opción.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

5 +3

es algo difícil / un reto

David Russi

3 +3

tarea difícil

Idoia Echenique

4 +1

es un verdadero desafío

Smartranslators

verdadero desafío

oxtrans

un exigencia grande

Karen Olson

un requisito excesivo

Olga Alex

es dificil conseguir/esperar que xxx sea xxx es mucho pedir

xxxcw010

Answers

2 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

es algo difícil / un reto

Explanation:
Oxford:

a tall order: 40 pages by tomorrow? that's rather a tall order, isn't it? ¿40 páginas para mañana? eso es mucho pedir ¿no?; it's a bit of a tall order, but I'll see what I can do es algo difícil, pero veré qué puedo hacer; (before noun)

David Russi
United States
Local time: 00:32
Native speaker of:

English,

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 100

2 mins confidence:

es dificil conseguir/esperar que xxx sea xxx es mucho pedir

Explanation:
.

xxxcw010
Local time: 01:32
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 47

3 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

es un verdadero desafío

Explanation:
Suerte

Smartranslators
Local time: 08:32
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 327

3 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

tarea difícil

Explanation:
Una opción

Idoia Echenique
Spain
Local time: 08:32
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 20

Grading comment

Muchas gracias. Es la mejora opción.

3 mins confidence:

un requisito excesivo

Explanation:
Otra idea

Olga Alex
Spain
Local time: 08:32
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 23

4 mins confidence:

un exigencia grande

Explanation:
Asi lo entiendo. Es como "mucho para pedir/exigir."

Karen Olson
Local time: 00:32
Native speaker of:

English

5 mins confidence:

verdadero desafío

Explanation:
http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/tall order.html... Something that is likely to be hard to achieve or fulfil is a tall order

also see: previous KUZOZ!!

Reference: http://www.proz.com/kudoz/704874

oxtrans
Native speaker of:

English,

Spanish

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