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Donauuferautobahn

English translation: Danube embankment motorway

09:35 Jan 6, 2001
German to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering
German term or phrase: Donauuferautobahn
Später wurde auch die Donauuferautobahn über einen Kilometer lang in einen Tunnel verlegt.
Danube shoreline motorway? or does it cross the river (i.e., not a shoreline highway).
Parrot
Spain
Local time: 19:10
English translation:Danube embankment motorway
Explanation:
There is an urban motorway that runs along the Danube on stilts.
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Roy Fox
Austria
Local time: 19:10
Grading comment
Thanks once again! Friends - all - I appreciate your help but I'm confronted with the specific problem of rendering this into British and I have to have an idea of what the highway looks like, first hand!
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Summary of answers provided
naalong the bank of..
Agius Language & Translation
na[Danube] riverside highway / freeway
Tom Funke
naDanube embankment motorway
Roy Fox


  

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along the bank of..


Explanation:
Usually shore is associated with the coast / sea, etc - here I think 'bank' is better as we are talking about a river. You would have to be quite descriptive in English and say something like the 'motorway running alongside/ parallel to the bank(s) of the Danube - a bit longwinded, I know but could you play around with that??

Agius Language & Translation
United Kingdom
Local time: 18:10
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 132

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Lotti
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2 hrs
[Danube] riverside highway / freeway


Explanation:
_riverside_ is the term most often appliedd (in the US) to such "freeways", "highways", "roads", "streets" or "drives". The term can also be, and often is, capitalized if is actually the name and not just a descriptive term.


    Long and varied experience living in or near US cities with highways etc./ so named
Tom Funke
Local time: 14:10
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in pair: 2419

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Lotti
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17 hrs
Danube embankment motorway


Explanation:
There is an urban motorway that runs along the Danube on stilts.

Roy Fox
Austria
Local time: 19:10
PRO pts in pair: 74
Grading comment
Thanks once again! Friends - all - I appreciate your help but I'm confronted with the specific problem of rendering this into British and I have to have an idea of what the highway looks like, first hand!
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