23:24 Mar 1, 2002 |
German to English translations [PRO] Tech/Engineering | |||||
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4 +1 | "untranslatable" |
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5 | Clearance adjustable. |
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4 | moved away from... / moved away from each other |
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4 | distance-adjustable |
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4 | remote controlled |
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moved away from... / moved away from each other Explanation: Another typical German adjective, reeking of perfectionism...well, there is (to my knowledge) no English equivalent, so I'd go with the above suggestion. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2002-03-01 23:58:50 (GMT) -------------------------------------------------- I was actually meaning to say \"can be moved / moved away from each other\" |
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distance-adjustable Explanation: you could also try to turn the adjective into a verh phrase "can be adjusted..." to make it conform to English stylistic rules. Retaining the adjective would be stretching it. |
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"untranslatable" Explanation: well, even if this may not be of any help to you, but neither abstandsbewegbar nor erschiebbar nor the grammar of the last part of the sentence are in fact German (of these, abstandsbewegbar may be the (relatively) most acceptable). May be it could be useful, if you could get hold of the real original text, in whatever language it may have been. Greetings, Nikolaus |
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remote controlled Explanation: I would think that adjustable would have been expressed by ..einstellbar and that with abstandbewegbar was meant bewegbar auf Abstand |
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Clearance adjustable. Explanation: Implicit. |
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