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Spanish term or phrase:	afrontado
English translation:	confronted
Entered by:	James A. Walsh

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14:44 Aug 27, 2010

Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Finance (general) / Annual Report

Spanish term or phrase: afrontado

I’m translating an Annual Report for a Spanish construction company into UK English, and am just not sure what to use for “afrontado” here. Right now I’ve got “weather”, as in, “weathering the crisis”, but I’d like to explore other possibilities.

All suggestion welcome. Many thanks in advance.

CONTEXT:

“Hemos cerrado un nuevo ejercicio, en medio de un entorno económico y financiero muy complicado, y con una fuerte crisis en el sector constructor e inmobiliario. Aún así hemos afrontado de manera más que satisfactoria los retos estratégicos y operativos que se nos habían marcado, logrando unos ingresos de XXX,XXM€, lo que supone un incremento del X% respecto a los obtenidos en el cierre del ejercicio anterior.”

MY DRAFT:

“We have closed this financial year amid a highly complex economic and financial climate, and a deep crisis in the construction and real estate sector. Yet we weathered the strategic and operational challenges we were expecting more than satisfactorily, achieving revenues of €XXX.XXm, which represents an increase of X% year-on-year.”

James A. Walsh KudoZ activity Questions: 128 (none open) (18 closed without grading) Answers: 1457 Spain
Local time: 09:40

confronted

Explanation:
Mi sugerencia.

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Note added at 47 mins (2010-08-27 15:31:30 GMT)
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afrontar=to confront, to face,

Selected response from:

Leonardo Lamarche
Venezuela
Local time: 03:10

Grading comment

Thanks Leo, and everyone else for your help!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +2

met

Fiona Kirton

confronted

Leonardo Lamarche

3 +1

dealt / addressed this challenge satisfactorily

Smartranslators

to overcome an challenge

Giovanni Rengifo

we have faced up to the challenges

Natalia Pedrosa

Discussion entries: 1

Answers

3 mins confidence:

we have faced up to the challenges

Explanation:
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Natalia Pedrosa
Local time: 09:40
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish,

English
PRO pts in category: 20

11 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

dealt / addressed this challenge satisfactorily

Explanation:
Saludos

Smartranslators
Local time: 09:40
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 941

14 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

met

Explanation:
I would restructure a little bit what you already have:
"...we more than satisfactorily met the anticipated/expected strategic and operational challenges..."

Fiona Kirton
United Kingdom
Local time: 08:40
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 8

3 mins confidence:

confronted

Leonardo Lamarche
Venezuela
Local time: 03:10
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 90

Grading comment

Thanks Leo, and everyone else for your help!

1 hr confidence:

afrontar un reto to overcome an challenge

Explanation:
Considering the positive results they had, I believe this option could be used.

Giovanni Rengifo
Colombia
Local time: 02:40
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 161

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