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English translation: wooden walkway


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Spanish term or phrase:pasarela
English translation:wooden walkway
Entered by: Nora Escoms
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04:14 Sep 18, 2005
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Tourism & Travel
Spanish term or phrase: pasarela
Se refiere a esos caminitos de madera que suele haber en las playas para evitar la arena caliente. ¿Cuál sería el equivalente en inglés británico?
Nora Escoms
Argentina
Local time: 16:05
plank walkway
Explanation:
HTH

... a three-minute walk to the beach - a short jaunt through a new beach park with playground and restrooms until a plank walkway leads you to the beach. ...
www.vrbo.com/25738 - 16k - Cached - Similar pages


Floating Dock. How to build. Question and Answers / Links.Answer: The walkway (plank) should be easy, but keeping the dock in place ... When you look at how my dock is sitting there on the beach, note that the ...
www.canadianfishing.com/dock/qal.htm - 16k - Cached - Similar pages


Port Angeles Attractions, Red Lion HotelBeach found on the Washington State coast line. .6 mile hike, tide pools and ... and avoid vibram-soled shoes as the cedar plank walkway can be slick! ...
www.redlionportangeles.com/thearea/attractions.html - 35k - Cached - Similar pages


FFH Devotional Series # 9The coolest thing about Wildwood was the boardwalk - a two or three mile stretch of plank walkway on the beach with ocean on one side and endless shops, ...
christianteens.about.com/library/blffh9.htm

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bigedsenior
Local time: 12:05
Grading comment
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Summary of answers provided
5 +3plank walkwaybigedsenior
4 +3boardwalk
Sonja Zibin
3 +2wooden walkway /walkway / boardwalk
Sheila Hardie
4gangway
Xenia Wong
3wooden footbridge
roneill


  

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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
gangway


Explanation:
sug.

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...a raised platform or walkway providing passage- One defenition = Babylon...

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"definition"

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gangway
(English)

gang·way (gngw )
s.
1. (passageway) - pasillo



Xenia Wong
Local time: 14:05
Meets criteria
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 15
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12 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
boardwalk


Explanation:
This is how I would translate it.

Sonja Zibin
Local time: 15:05
Does not meet criteria
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Sheila Hardie
5 hrs
  -> Thank you Sheila!
agree  MargaEsther
10 hrs
  -> Thank you MargaEsther!
agree  Sheilann: Definitely. Boards placed directly on top of the sand.
11 hrs
  -> Thank you again Sheilann!
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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +3
plank walkway


Explanation:
HTH

... a three-minute walk to the beach - a short jaunt through a new beach park with playground and restrooms until a plank walkway leads you to the beach. ...
www.vrbo.com/25738 - 16k - Cached - Similar pages


Floating Dock. How to build. Question and Answers / Links.Answer: The walkway (plank) should be easy, but keeping the dock in place ... When you look at how my dock is sitting there on the beach, note that the ...
www.canadianfishing.com/dock/qal.htm - 16k - Cached - Similar pages


Port Angeles Attractions, Red Lion HotelBeach found on the Washington State coast line. .6 mile hike, tide pools and ... and avoid vibram-soled shoes as the cedar plank walkway can be slick! ...
www.redlionportangeles.com/thearea/attractions.html - 35k - Cached - Similar pages


FFH Devotional Series # 9The coolest thing about Wildwood was the boardwalk - a two or three mile stretch of plank walkway on the beach with ocean on one side and endless shops, ...
christianteens.about.com/library/blffh9.htm



bigedsenior
Local time: 12:05
Meets criteria
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 124
Grading comment
Thank you all! You've been very helpful.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Nikki Graham: except I would say wooden walkway
4 hrs
  -> It's an option as well as wooden plank walkway.
agree  Sheila Hardie: I agree with Nikki - I'd say wooden walkway or simply walkway
5 hrs
  -> thanks, Sheila
agree  MargaEsther: Yes, I'd say wooden walkway.
10 hrs
  -> thanks, Marga
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
wooden footbridge


Explanation:
I think this would work

roneill
Local time: 12:05
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
wooden walkway /walkway / boardwalk


Explanation:
I think there are several possible ways of saying this in UK English. 'Wooden walkway', 'walkway' and even 'boardwalk'.


HTH

Sheila

".. a much quicker route via the dunes and a single track road into the nature reserve. The first gate on the left after leaving the car park seemed to be the best route. After about one mile along the road there is a wooden walkway on the right hand side of the road, this is a path for disabled / infirm walkers. Walk along the walkway until you come to the viewing platform at the end.
From here you have 2 options, 1) Walk onto the beach, go to the point on your left and walk along the beach until you see the sign denoting the start of the naturist area. 2) Turn left and walk along the dunes until you see the sign."

http://www.n-2.org.uk/nuff/pages/beaches/holkham.htm

http://www.broads-authority.gov.uk/broads/pages/press136.htm

A boardwalk is a place, most typically in beachfront communities, where a path for pedestrians and sometimes vehicles runs along a beach or overlooking and close to a beach. There are boardwalks in many places in the world; however, they are extremely common along the East Coast of the United States.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boardwalk

Sheila Hardie
Local time: 21:05
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Rachel Fell
19 mins
agree  Jane Lamb-Ruiz
5 hrs
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