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Italian term or phrase:	volano
English translation:	engine/driver
Entered by:	Valeria Faber

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19:43 Sep 29, 2010

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Art/Literary - Journalism / evento culturale

Italian term or phrase: volano

devo tradurre alcune schede informative su un evento culturale che ha come tema i beni ambientali e culturali, e uno dei Key aspects da comunicare (espressi sotto forma di brevi frasi o parole chiave) è: Patrimonio culturale come *volano dello sviluppo economico.

In questo contesto secondo voi è corretto tradurre come "driving force"? Avete suggerimenti?
Grazie!

Giulia T. KudoZ activity Questions: 57 (1 open) (8 closed without grading) Answers: 7 Italy
Local time: 05:32

engine/driver

Explanation:
maybe one of these

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Valeria Faber
Italy
Local time: 05:32

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Summary of answers provided

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engine/driver

Valeria Faber

inertial force

Michael Brennen

flywheel

Vincenzo Di Maso

a boost

cynthiatesser

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4 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +7

engine/driver

Explanation:
maybe one of these

Valeria Faber
Italy
Local time: 05:32
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Italian
PRO pts in category: 2

Grading comment

Thank you very much!

1 hr confidence:

flywheel

Explanation:
also metaphoric

Vincenzo Di Maso
Local time: 04:32
Native speaker of: Italian
PRO pts in category: 4

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thank you for your help, but the methapore of the "volano" is odd in italian as much as some English collegues told me to be in English, so I prefer to avoid it!

10 hrs confidence:

a boost

Explanation:
less metaphorical

cynthiatesser
Italy
Local time: 05:32
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Italian

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thank you for your help, but I sense that "boost" is a bit too much in this context... Anyway, thanks very much indeed!

11 hrs confidence:

inertial force

Explanation:
This is not an often used phrase (probably as frequenly as 'volano' is used metaphorically in such contexts!), but it is represented in political and economic contexts with the same idea, as I read your text.

One of the key factors of a literal mechanical flywheel is its inertia; they usually have some mass, and in rotation that mass stabilizes and maintains a driving force through short term variations. 'Inertial force' seems to carry that underlying idea, without the more obscure metaphor/direct reference to a flywheel. Jim Collins in the book "Good to Great" did talk about the "flywheel effect", but he explained it at some length so that the reference would not be lost on the non-mechanically inclined.

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http://books.google.com/books?id=z53AMiWCGIsC&lpg=PA24&ots=1...

Existing policies - however ill chosen - often have large inertial force...

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http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/14234/1/MPRA_paper_14234.pdf

Referring to this, Postolache T. (1981) showed that the inertial force of the economic mechanism tends to the reproduction – on the same technical base and structure – of the production apparatus, because on the short run is the most advantageous. This inertial force, Postolache added, is hitting the new requirements and conditions which appeared meanwhile in the economy, generated from the most varied origin.

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/zeese/zeese30.html

There is an inertial force to empire, we have the armed forces, an ideology of global mission, we need oil, lots of it and we need bases to guarantee that we control the oil going to others, as well as to get access to our new bases in central Asia between our superpower rivals China and Russia.

Michael Brennen
Local time: 22:32
Native speaker of:

English

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thanks for your accurate explanation! I surely will use this expression in another context, but in this particular text it just doesn't seem to fit in well... Thank you very much indeed!

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Oct 1, 2010 - Changes made by Valeria Faber:
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