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準備する

English translation: get ready


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Japanese term or phrase:準備する
English translation:get ready
Entered by: Madelharri
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02:33 Sep 25, 2009
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Business/Commerce (general) / official documents
Japanese term or phrase: 準備する
業務一覧書を作成しております。業務文書を作成する作業について、「Prepareation of ドキュメント名」という表現でよろしいでしょうか。「Making of　ドキュメント名」を使用したほうがよろしいのでしょうか。
どのような違いがあるのかご教示いただけますと幸です。
akihi
Philippines
get ready
Explanation:
This is more natural than to prepare a document or create a document. If you want to use a noun then you can say "Getting the document ready" or "the preparation of the document" eg "I took a lot of trouble over getting the document ready" or I took a lot of trouble over the preparation of the document" - in this case the latter sounds more natural.
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Summary of answers provided
5get ready
Madelharri
3 +1drafting/creating ドキュメント名Tomo Fuji
3Preparation for~
Yumico Tanaka


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Preparation for~


Explanation:
Preparation of-ではなくfor~を使います。就職活動の文書作成など、取り揃えたりちょっと修正するだけですむことが主です。

Making of というと、映画などで作成過程の苦労話などをまとめたものが思い浮かびます。Ｍａｋｅというのはなにかを創作するときに使います。


Yumico Tanaka
Local time: 13:39
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Native speaker of: Native in JapaneseJapanese
PRO pts in category: 8

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agree  yumom: 創作ではなく、情報に基づく文書の作成ですから。法律関係の文書にもpreparationを使います。単なる起案の段階でしたらproposing、draftingなど。。。
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  -> ありがとうございますＹｕｍｏｎさん。
disagree  Madelharri: The correct preposition is preparation of a document. Preparation for is used if you are preparing for an event etc. So you could say we prepared the document for a meeting, but the preparation of the document was delayed.
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drafting/creating ドキュメント名


Explanation:
○○申請書等の雛形の項目を記入して、部長等責任者の承認を待つだけの状態にするような作業でしたら、draftあるいはcreateという表現の方が、英語としては自然かもしれません。making ドキュメント名、あるいはpreparation ofドキュメント名でも、意味は伝わると思います。

Tomo Fuji
Native speaker of: Native in JapaneseJapanese

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agree  Minoru Kuwahara: 文字通り準備することを言っているなら preparetaion がふさわしいでしょうが、もっとそれを越えた訳が許されるケースであると思います。-
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  -> mulberryvalleyさん、ありがとうございます！
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get ready


Explanation:
This is more natural than to prepare a document or create a document. If you want to use a noun then you can say "Getting the document ready" or "the preparation of the document" eg "I took a lot of trouble over getting the document ready" or I took a lot of trouble over the preparation of the document" - in this case the latter sounds more natural.

Example sentence(s):
  • I got all the documents ready well in advance of the meeting.
Madelharri
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