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...se da en un vacío histórico...

English translation: is born/emerges from a historical void ...


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Spanish term or phrase:...se da en un vacío histórico...
English translation:is born/emerges from a historical void ...
Entered by: Lydia De Jorge
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14:23 Sep 10, 2008
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Psychology
Spanish term or phrase: ...se da en un vacío histórico...
This comes from an essay on the history of the psycology profession in Puerto Rico. I am completely stumped. The complete sentence is:
Ninguna disciplina se da en un vacío histórico y la psicología clínica, subespecialidad de la psicología, no es la excepción.
Thanks again!
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is born/emerges from a historical void ...
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Lydia De Jorge
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Local time: 12:13
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That's it. Thank you muchisimo!!
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2is born/emerges from a historical void ...
Lydia De Jorge
4 +1...occurs/takes place/appears in a historical void...
Daniel Coria
4history gapSylvina
3occurs in a historical vacuumliz askew


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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
is born/emerges from a historical void ...


Explanation:
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Lydia De Jorge
United States
Local time: 12:13
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Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 20
Grading comment
That's it. Thank you muchisimo!!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Noni Gilbert: Yes, arises was what I was going to put, but yours are fine and dandy and anyway I'm too late!//Must be having a feeble day, can't even hit the keys with conviction!
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agree  Egmont
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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
...occurs/takes place/appears in a historical void...


Explanation:
"No discipline can occur/take place/appear in a historical void..."

The books of the Bible were not written in a historical void. Rather, they are pieces of literature which a competent exegete can locate, with reasonable ...
http://books.google.com/books?id=TFRYGphPQh4C&pg=PA200&lpg=P...

Such sources were not created in a historical void. An event of immense import both to nascent Christianity and to Judaism was the Jewish war against Rome ...
http://books.google.com/books?id=vSehrtQpcYcC&pg=PA26&lpg=PA...

Germany and the Twenty-first Century These serial acts of inhumanity did not, of course, take place in a historical void. Even if we leave to one side the ...
http://books.google.com/books?id=W9TODKJGzjwC&pg=PA150&lpg=P...

My 2 cents...

Daniel Coria
Local time: 13:13
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish

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agree  liz askew
11 mins
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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
history gap


Explanation:
No discipline occurs in a history gap...

Ref. for example "Strategies for Bridging the History Gap in British Primary Schools: Valuable Models for American History Reform."

Sylvina
Argentina
Local time: 13:13
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
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occurs in a historical vacuum


Explanation:
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OUP: UK General Catalogue
She warns us that today's decisions should not be made in a historical vacuum. We can still find solutions to today's problems in the hard-won experience of ...
www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780198206620 - 25k - Cached - Similar pages
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The significance of race to transport history
This historical vacuum can be partially attributed to the ways in which white. supremacy was a discourse both commonsensical (therefore not in need ...
journals.mup.man.ac.uk/cgi-bin/pdfdisp//MUPpdf/JTH/V28I2/280307.pdf - Similar pages

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exists in a historical vacuum

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Twice Condemned: Slaves & the Criminal Laws of Virginia, 1705-1865 - Google Books Result
by Philip J. Schwarz - 1998 - Law - 353 pages
Chapters 1 and 2 try to show that slave crime did not exist in a historical vacuum. White Virginians employed a combination of Old World and New World ...
books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=1886363544...
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Amazon.co.uk: The Third Reich: A New Hist

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►darse verbo reflexivo
1 (producirse, tener lugar) esa enfermedad se da en el norte de Europa, that disease is common in the North of Europe
se dieron una serie de coincidencias, a series of coincidences occurred
los frutales se dan muy bien en Levante, fruit trees grow really well in Levante
2 (hallarse) to be found, exist
3 (aplicarse) devote oneself
4 (causar cierta impresión) me doy lástima, I feel sorry for myself
5 (tener habilidad para algo) se le dan bien las matemáticas, he's good at maths 5 darse a, (entregarse, abandonarse) to take to: se dio a la bebida, he took to drink 6 darse con o contra, to bump o crash into ♦ LOC: darse por satisfecho, to feel satisfied
darse por vencido, to give in
dárselas de, to boast about: se las da de culto, he pretends to be very refined

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any discipline is influenced by other historical factors/present factors

liz askew
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:13
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 35
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