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Jacks/Jills-of-all-trades

Spanish translation: sabelotodo (en este contexto)

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English term or phrase:Jacks/Jills-of-all-trades
Spanish translation:sabelotodo (en este contexto)
Entered by: Cecilia Castro de Anderson

05:09 May 27, 2002
English to Spanish translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering
English term or phrase: Jacks/Jills-of-all-trades
Implementing the business engineer role will make the business and technical roles distinct and allow individual engineers to excel according to their specific desires, talents, and abilities without trying to be Jack/Jills-of-all-trades.
Erika Shimabukuro
Local time: 23:32
sabelotodo
Explanation:
No es exactamente la traduccion de Jack of all trades... (que es la que explico otro colega antes) pero transmite el sentido de que no tiene que saber de todo. Podes decir "sin intentar ser un sabelotodo".
Otra opcion seria decir "sin intentar cubrir todos los campos sabiendo que no se cuenta con los conocimientos pertinentes". O algo por el estilo.

Suerte!!
Ceci :)
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Cecilia Castro de Anderson
Local time: 00:32
Grading comment
Gracias
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +2aprendices de mucho...
Elena Pérez
5El que mucho abarca, poco aprieta"
Monica Colangelo
5milusos, maestro chasquilla
Henry Hinds
4 +1sabelotodo
Cecilia Castro de Anderson
4ser los que mucho hacen pero poco saben
Sebastián Sierpe Toral (X)
4hombres y mujeres orquestas / personas orquestas
RSI EN-ES (AA)


  

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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
El que mucho abarca, poco aprieta"


Explanation:
Erika: el dicho completo en inglés es "Jack of all trades, master of none", que se refiere justamente a quienes quieren hacer todo pero no son especialistas en nada finalmente

Monica Colangelo
Argentina
Local time: 01:32
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in pair: 2450
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16 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
ser los que mucho hacen pero poco saben


Explanation:
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Sebastián Sierpe Toral (X)
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41 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
milusos, maestro chasquilla


Explanation:
"Milusos" le dicen en México y "maestro chasquilla" en Chile, los que a todo le tiran y a nada atinan.

If your going to countries other than those, there may be more terms yet, but I don't know them all.


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Henry Hinds
United States
Local time: 22:32
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52 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
sabelotodo


Explanation:
No es exactamente la traduccion de Jack of all trades... (que es la que explico otro colega antes) pero transmite el sentido de que no tiene que saber de todo. Podes decir "sin intentar ser un sabelotodo".
Otra opcion seria decir "sin intentar cubrir todos los campos sabiendo que no se cuenta con los conocimientos pertinentes". O algo por el estilo.

Suerte!!
Ceci :)


    own experience
Cecilia Castro de Anderson
Local time: 00:32
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in pair: 57
Grading comment
Gracias

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  CNF: "sin intentar cubrir todos los campos"!!! impecable!!!
10 hrs
  -> THANK YOU NATALIA!!
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
aprendices de mucho...


Explanation:
En España se utiliza en estos casos el refrán "Aprendiz de mucho, maestro de nada".

Puedes verlo utilizado en el siguiente ejemplo:
"Naturalmente, siguen existiendo personas que abarcan varios campos a pesar del conocido dicho: "aprendiz de mucho, maestro de nada"."
http://www.ull.es/departamentos/didinv/tecnologiaeducativa/d...

Espero que te sirva.


    Reference: http://www.ull.es/departamentos/didinv/tecnologiaeducativa/d...
Elena Pérez
Belgium
Local time: 06:32
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in pair: 134

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  luka
25 mins
agree  Hans Gärtner
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
hombres y mujeres orquestas / personas orquestas


Explanation:
might be a nice way of putting it...

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Note added at 2002-05-27 11:29:24 (GMT)
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Should probably be understood by all Spanish speakers.

RSI EN-ES (AA)
Other
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish, Native in EnglishEnglish
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