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Spanish: "dar bote"

English translation: bounce/d around/tried different things







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Spanish term or phrase:"dar bote"
English translation:bounce/d around/tried different things
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Spanish term or phrase: "dar bote"

Cuando salí del colgio no sabía que estudiar, estuve tres años dando bote hasta que encontré lo que me gustó.
Andrea N
Chile
bounce/d around/tried different things
Explanation:
DAR BOTE: En esta expresión lo de dar bote no se refiere a ninguna embarcación, menos a la entrega de una de ellas, más bien este bote es ir de un lado a otro, es decir, como pelota. "Dar bote" se aplica a la gente inexperta que poco o nada que sabe y a la gente inestable que va por la vida sin rumbo.

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trans4u
United States
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Summary of answers provided
4 +4going/drifting from one thing to anotherneilmac
5kicking about/bouncing aroundfemme
4 +1bounce/d around/tried different thingstrans4u
4walking to and fro / from here to there / walking about
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3I drifted [around] for three years
Robert Forstag


  

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49 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
dar bote bounce/d around/tried different things

Explanation:
DAR BOTE: En esta expresión lo de dar bote no se refiere a ninguna embarcación, menos a la entrega de una de ellas, más bien este bote es ir de un lado a otro, es decir, como pelota. "Dar bote" se aplica a la gente inexperta que poco o nada que sabe y a la gente inestable que va por la vida sin rumbo.




    Reference: http://cuarta.cl/diario/2006/03/18/4a.FICHA.FICHA.html
trans4u
United States
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
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agree Robert Copeland
8 hrs
  -> Thank you, Robert.
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
walking to and fro / from here to there / walking about

Explanation:
Es como estar yendo "de aquí para allá"

Smartranslators
Spain
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
going/drifting from one thing to another

Explanation:
"... drifting..." hace hincapie en en sentido de "...a la deriva/sin rumbo..." que yo creo idoneo en este contexto.

neilmac
Spain
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 80

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree MJ Barber: drifting around ...
36 mins
  -> Cheers MJ

agree jlrsnyder
2 hrs
  -> Thanks j

agree Robert Copeland
5 hrs
  -> Thank you RC

agree kironne: drifting
7 hrs
  -> Gracias :)
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
estuve tres años dando bote I drifted [around] for three years

Explanation:
I think that this would be the most idiomatic solution. Perhaps better without "around".

See references.

Suerte.


    Reference: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/.../1930/lewis...
    Reference: http://hsc.unm.edu/emermed/content/Fac_bio11.shtml
Robert Forstag
United States
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13 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
kicking about/bouncing around

Explanation:
"Bote" implies a thrusting (hence "kicking") or other strong motion forward. Pink Floyd used the expression "kicking about in your home town" in one of the songs on their album "Dark Side of the Moon" to describe someone who was wasting away their time and getting nowhere with their life.

femme
United States
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