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"dar bote"

English translation: bounce/d around/tried different things

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Spanish term or phrase:"dar bote"
English translation:bounce/d around/tried different things
Entered by: trans4u

05:05 Oct 14, 2006
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Spanish term or phrase: "dar bote"
Cuando salí del colgio no sabía que estudiar, estuve tres años dando bote hasta que encontré lo que me gustó.
Andrea N
Local time: 12:49
bounce/d around/tried different things
Explanation:
DAR BOTE: En esta expresión lo de dar bote no se refiere a ninguna embarcación, menos a la entrega de una de ellas, más bien este bote es ir de un lado a otro, es decir, como pelota. "Dar bote" se aplica a la gente inexperta que poco o nada que sabe y a la gente inestable que va por la vida sin rumbo.

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trans4u
Local time: 12:49
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Summary of answers provided
4 +4going/drifting from one thing to another
neilmac
4 +1bounce/d around/tried different things
trans4u
5kicking about/bouncing around
Barbara Cochran, MFA
4walking to and fro / from here to there / walking about
Margarita Ezquerra (Smart Translators, S.L.)
3I drifted [around] for three years
Robert Forstag


  

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49 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
dar bote
bounce/d around/tried different things


Explanation:
DAR BOTE: En esta expresión lo de dar bote no se refiere a ninguna embarcación, menos a la entrega de una de ellas, más bien este bote es ir de un lado a otro, es decir, como pelota. "Dar bote" se aplica a la gente inexperta que poco o nada que sabe y a la gente inestable que va por la vida sin rumbo.




    Reference: http://cuarta.cl/diario/2006/03/18/4a.FICHA.FICHA.html
trans4u
Local time: 12:49
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 22

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agree  Robert Copeland
8 hrs
  -> Thank you, Robert.
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
walking to and fro / from here to there / walking about


Explanation:
Es como estar yendo "de aquí para allá"

Margarita Ezquerra (Smart Translators, S.L.)
Spain
Local time: 20:49
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 286
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
going/drifting from one thing to another


Explanation:
"... drifting..." hace hincapie en en sentido de "...a la deriva/sin rumbo..." que yo creo idoneo en este contexto.

neilmac
Spain
Local time: 20:49
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 342

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  MJ Barber: drifting around ...
36 mins
  -> Cheers MJ
agree  Janet Ross Snyder
2 hrs
  -> Thanks j
agree  Robert Copeland
5 hrs
  -> Thank you RC
agree  kironne: drifting
7 hrs
  -> Gracias :)
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
estuve tres años dando bote
I drifted [around] for three years


Explanation:
I think that this would be the most idiomatic solution. Perhaps better without "around".

See references.

Suerte.


    Reference: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/.../1930/lewis...
    Reference: http://hsc.unm.edu/emermed/content/Fac_bio11.shtml
Robert Forstag
United States
Local time: 14:49
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 126
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13 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
kicking about/bouncing around


Explanation:
"Bote" implies a thrusting (hence "kicking") or other strong motion forward. Pink Floyd used the expression "kicking about in your home town" in one of the songs on their album "Dark Side of the Moon" to describe someone who was wasting away their time and getting nowhere with their life.

Barbara Cochran, MFA
United States
Local time: 14:49
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 28
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