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Swedish to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Energy / Power Generation / power lines | | Swedish term or phrase: julgranar | det står spännvinkel julgranar :
kontext ur projektbeskrivning är:
stolpar till en luftledning som ska byggas,
Vinkelstolpar i ledningen kommer förutom B-stolpar med hängkedja också vara tvåbenta hängvinkelstolpar och spännvinkel julgranar båda med vertikal fasplacering. |
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It is that simple. Now, there are zealots who don't like the specificity
and call them "holiday trees" etc, but those are extremists who should
be ignored. Everybody calls them Christmas tree, regardless of
personal beliefs. |
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27 mins confidence:   Christmas tree
Explanation:
This is in fact Swedish translated or taken over from English, I belive, though I may be wrong. (As I naturally heard of it first in English.)
The traditional pylon design is sometimes called the Christmas tree.
http://www.building.co.uk/buildings/architecture-news/riba-r...
Not an area I specialise in, but I AM interested in design, and knew about it from that angle.
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Note added at 38 mins (2012-01-25 11:58:45 GMT)
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/may/23/electricity-p...
In 2000, Lord Foster designed a pylon for Italian utility Enel that looked like a gymnast standing with arms aloft.
His practice explained that the design "abandons the conventional and untidy 'Christmas tree' configuration in which cables are supported by arms sprouting at intervals from the pylon's main mast. Instead the cables are neatly grouped within an open V-form, created by the junction of two attenuated masts".
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56 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +4 Christmas trees
Explanation:
It is that simple. Now, there are zealots who don't like the specificity
and call them "holiday trees" etc, but those are extremists who should
be ignored. Everybody calls them Christmas tree, regardless of
personal beliefs.
| Nils Andersson
United States
Local time: 23:08
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Native speaker of:  Swedish, English
PRO pts in category: 22
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The translation workplace 
