 Member since Mar '11
Working languages: Spanish to English
|    Alison Imms
MA Translation, 6 years of experience
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Freelancer and outsourcer,  Verified member | | Blue Board: Alida Language Centre | | Translation, Interpreting, Project management | | Specializes in: | | Business/Commerce (general) | Economics | | Finance (general) | Government / Politics | | Law: Contract(s) | Law (general) | | Law: Taxation & Customs |
| Also works in: | | Environment & Ecology | History | | International Org/Dev/Coop | Poetry & Literature | | Tourism & Travel |
More Less | Spanish to English - Rates: 0.07 - 0.07 EUR per word / 25 - 25 EUR per hour
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Jobs of high complexity +25%
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High volume -10%
| | PRO-level points: 295, Questions answered: 176, Questions asked: 102 | | <3 employees | | Euro (eur), U. S. dollars (usd) | Sample translations submitted: 3 Spanish to English: Carbonate deposition in continental settings
General field: Science
Detailed field: Geology | Source text - Spanish
La experiencia sobre sedimentación carbonatada en plataformas continentales demuestra que los medios carbonatados responden a los cambios del nivel del mar de manera muy diferente a como lo hacen los medios clásticos. Los even-tos transgresivos y regresivos se han definido como las migraciones hacia el continente y hacia el mar de la línea de costa, debido a la interacción entre la eustasia y la tasa de sedimentación. En medios marinos carbonatados los se-dimentos no provienen del continente, sino que se originan “in situ”, y la tasa sedimentaria es siempre menor o igual a las tasas de variación del nivel de base. Por lo tanto, las transgresiones y regresiones en la línea de costa, prescindiendo del aporte sedimentario continental, dependen únicamente del factor eustático. Además, en medios carbonatados las secuencias internas de orden menor tienen la capacidad de organizarse según stacking patterns progradacionales bastante antes de que se haya iniciado la regresión eustática en la línea de costa. En consecuencia, las superficies de estratigrafía secuencial pueden no tener la misma localización temporal en la curva de cambio del nivel de base que en el modelo independiente de estratigrafía secuencial, establecido fundamentalmente para interpretar sucesiones de materiales siliciclásticos en medios sedimentarios de transición marino-continentales. | Translation - English
Evidence collected on carbonate deposition in continental platforms shows that the response of carbonate environments to changes in sea level differs from that of clastic environments. Transgressive and regressive events are defined respectively as landward and seaward migrations of the shoreline driven by the interaction between eustasy and sedimentation rate. In marine carbonate environments, deposits do not originate from the continent but are rather generated within the basin, and sedimentation rate is always lower or equal to rates of base level change. As a result, in the absence of any supply of sediments from the continent, transgressions and regressions of the shoreline depend exclusively on eustatic factors. Furthermore, in carbonate environments minor internal sequences arrange themselves into a progradational stacking pattern before eustatic regression begins at the shoreline. In consequence, sequence stratigraphy surfaces may not have the same temporal location on the base level change curve as they do in the independent model of sequence stratigraphy, which is designed to be used to interpret siliciclastic deposits in sedimentary environments of marine-continental transition. | Spanish to English: Golf course description
General field: Other
Detailed field: Sports / Fitness / Recreation | Source text - Spanish
El Recorrido Rosa:
Hoyo 1:
Este par cinco, ligero dogleg derecha, es complicado como inicio de recorrido. Esta defendido por bunkers a ambos lados de la calle en la salida y segundo golpe. El green estrecho y alargado en el sentido del juego se pierde con facilidad por ambos lados. Sus múltiples caídas y longitud dificultan salvar los 2 putts a los tiros a green poco precisos.
Hoyo 2:
Estrecho y rodeado de bosque por ambos lados este par 4 exige precisión tanto en la salida como en el tiro a green. Es vital alcanzar la calle para tener un buen ángulo en el segundo tiro por lo que se premia la línea sobre la distancia. Su green en alto y bien defendido por el bunker corto-izquierda exige al jugador un golpe por alto.
Hoyo 3:
El más corto de los pares 3 del campo es una buena oportunidad de quitarse algún golpe de la tarjeta, pero en caso de fallarse la salida la recuperación desde el bosque que lo rodea puede ser muy complicada.
| Translation - English
The Pink Course:
1st Hole:
The course gets off to a tough start with this par five, dog-leg right. Bunkers on both sides of the fairway pose a risk for the tee and second shots. The long and narrow green set diagonally across from the tee can be easily missed on either side. Numerous dips make it hard to ensure 2 putts after an inaccurate approach shot.
2nd Hole:
Narrow and surrounded by trees on either side, this par 4 requires accuracy on both the tee and approach shots. It is of vital importance to make it onto the fairway in order to get a good angle on the second shot, so accuracy should take precedence over length. The elevated green is well guarded by a short left bunker, and thus requires a high shot.
3rd Hole:
The shortest of the par 3s on the course, this hole is a good chance to knock a point off your score. If you miss your tee shot, however, it may be pretty hard to save par shooting from the forest that surrounds the hole.
| Spanish to English: The Banco de España releases its conclusions on the recapitalisation needs of Spain's banking sector
General field: Bus/Financial
Detailed field: Finance (general) | Source text - Spanish
Banco de España califica hoy la solvencia de bancos y cajas
El sector financiero español afronta hoy una jornada decisiva. El Banco de España dará a conocer en unas horas las necesidades de capital de bancos y cajas. El supervisor anunciará la lista de entidades que no cumplen la nueva ratio de solvencia exigida y el importe de las fondos que necesitan para alcanzarla. Los bancos y cajas que no alcancen el listón disponen de apenas quince días hábiles para presentar al regulador su plan de recapitalización. Si en septiembre no lo han cumplido, el estado entrará en su capital. El baile de cifras sobre las necesidades de capital de la banca española debería concluir hoy. La previsión del Gobierno sitúa la exigencia en un máximo de 20.000 millones. Pero las firmas de inversión se mueven en una horquilla que oscila entre los 17.000 millones de Moody’s y los 120.000 millones de UBS. Ayer, Goldman Sachs situó la cifra entre 22.000 y 59.000 millones
| Translation - English
The Banco de España will evaluate commercial and savings bank solvency today
Today is critical for Spain’s banking sector. In a few hours the Banco de España will release its conclusions on the recapitalisation needs of Spain’s commercial and savings banks. Data released by Spain’s central bank will include a list of banks that do not meet new solvency ratio requirements, as well as estimates of how much they must raise in order to do so. Banks that fail to make the cut will have just fifteen days to submit a recapitalisation plan to the Banco de España. If the plan does not bear fruit by September the government will take a stake in the bank’s equity. Confusion and uncertainty over the cost of recapitalising Spain’s banking sector should be cleared up today. The government estimates the cost at no more than €20 billion, but calculations by investment firms range from Moody’s estimate of €17 billion to UBS’ estimate of €120 billion. Yesterday Goldman Sachs placed the figure between €22 billion and €59 billion.
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More Less | | Master's degree - UWE (University of West England) | | Years of translation experience: 6. Registered at ProZ.com: Jul 2005. Became a member: Mar 2011. | Spanish to English (University of the West of England, verified)
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Previous and ongoing projects include translation from Spanish to English for prestigious clients such as RBA, KPMG, Accenture, Toyota, the European Institute for Energy Research (EIFER), Exide, TNS and the European Central Bank. Some of the most significant projects are detailed below. Some specific client names have been omitted but can be supplied along with references upon request.
- Daily translation (since 2009) of financial and political articles from a range of Spanish newspapers for the European Central Bank (end client)
- Translation of 16 travel guides for Starwood Hotels
- Translation of several video games for market leader Ubisoft
- Translation of a nutritional textbook for the Spanish branch of a top German pharmaceutical company
- Spanish-English translation of a series of scientific reports on gasification, pyrolysis and energy crops for the European Institute for Energy Research (EIFER)
- Spanish-English translation of 50 reports for a Spanish insurance firm headquartered in London
- Translation of three mathematics school textbooks for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd years of the Spanish ESO programme (7th, 8th and 9th grade in the USA / years 7, 8 and 9 in the UK) published by the Spanish Anaya Group)
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