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English to Spanish translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Government / Politics / Libro de Noam Chomsky: Deterring Democracy | | English term or phrase: too short a half-life to be truly effective | "Current arguments for intervention forces, as in the National Security Strategy report, reveal that the ideological system is running out of pretexts for the resort to subversion and overt force in international affairs, and military Keynesian measures at home. Defense against the Stalinist hordes no longer sells. The problem of the disappearing pretext was recognized years ago, but the efforts of the 1980s to overcome it -- invoking lunatic Arab terrorists or Hispanic narcotraffickers, for example -- have ****too short a half-life to be truly effective****. It therefore becomes necessary to acknowledge that the Third World itself is the real enemy."
No sé si la traducción literal "una medio vida/semivida demasiado breve" vaya bien aquí (ya miré en los glosarios, pero todos parecen referirse a un proceso nuclear específico).
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  David Meléndez Tormen
Netherlands
Local time: 08:43
| Grading comment Muchas gracias a todos =)
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1 hr confidence: no durarían lo suficiente como para ser realmente eficaces
Explanation:
creo que la frase en negativo deja más claro el sentido (perdón por tan fea rima); otra posibilidad sería: "tienen/tendrían una fecha de caducidad demasiado próxima/cercana como para ser realmente eficaces/efectivos".
| elere
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Local time: 08:43
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Asker: Perdón otorgado por la rima sin querer ;) Me gustaron todas tus opciones, perdón por no poder darles los puntos a todos. Gracias.
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