Dar peces y enseñar a pescar

English translation: give a man a fish...

06:38 Apr 28, 2005

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Spanish term or phrase: Dar peces y enseñar a pescar

I assume this is a maxim or saying-apart from it's literal translation- can anyone suggest another way of saying this?

David Brown KudoZ activity Questions: 287 (none open) (12 closed without grading) Answers: 2720 Spain
Local time: 01:24

English translation:give a man a fish...

Explanation:
I'm not quite sure why you'd want to say it another way...? It's a well-known saying in English:

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Chinese Proverb
http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/2279.html

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Note added at 37 mins (2005-04-28 07:16:19 GMT)
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If \"Dar peces y enseñar a pescar\" is your title, I don\'t see why you can\'t just translate it literally:

Giving fish and teaching to fish
Giving fish vs. teaching to fish
About giving fish...

(or whatever else best fits in with your article). I\'m sure the reference will be readily understood.

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tazdog (X)
Spain
Local time: 01:24

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Summary of answers provided

4 +7

Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach him to fish and he'll eat for life.

Charles Lucas

5 +2

give a man a fish...

tazdog (X)

sug. no dar pescado y/pero enseñar a pescar

kunstkoenigin

1 +1

Just a comment regarding feminism ... NOT FOR ANY KIND OF GRADING

Hermeneutica

Discussion entries: 4

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13 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +7

Dar peces y enseñar a pescar Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach him to fish and he'll eat for life.

Explanation:
I think it relates to this maxim of development aid. Happy fishing!

Charles Lucas
Local time: 01:24
Native speaker of:

English

19 mins confidence:

Dar peces y enseñar a pescar sug. no dar pescado y/pero enseñar a pescar

Explanation:
Give someone a fish and it will feed them for a day, give someone the knowledge to fish and you will feed them for a lifetime.”
“Give someone a fish and you feed him for a day;. Teach someone to fish and
you feed him for a lifetime.”
Give someone a fish, and they'll eat for a day. Teach someone to fish, and they'll eat for a lifetime.
If you give someone a fish, You feed him for a day, If you teach someone how
to fish, You feed him for life.

Reference: http://www.tatanka.com/bbc/fish.htm
Reference: http://www.cse.wustl.edu/~kjg/cse132/collaboration.html

kunstkoenigin
Local time: 01:24
Native speaker of:

Spanish

14 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

Dar peces y enseñar a pescar

give a man a fish...

tazdog (X)
Spain
Local time: 01:24
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 20

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1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

Dar peces y enseñar a pescar Just a comment regarding feminism ... NOT FOR ANY KIND OF GRADING

Explanation:
... there used to be the lovely "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle" ... :)) ... this only for amusement as concerns the ways of fish, don't think you could really make it fit!

Hermeneutica
Switzerland
Local time: 01:24
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish,

English

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