Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

dimensión histórica que nos corresponde

English translation:

(the) historical recognition/importance we deserve

Added to glossary by Barbara Cochran, MFA
Feb 25, 2010 21:57
14 yrs ago
Spanish term

dimensión histórica que nos corresponde

Spanish to English Social Sciences Archaeology
Voltear a ver la grandeza arquitectónica de esta milenaria ciudad, nos da la seguridad de que sí podemos recobrar la dimensión histórica que nos corresponde.
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Mar 1, 2010 02:37: Barbara Cochran, MFA Created KOG entry

Proposed translations

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the historical recognition/importance we deserve

No need to be overly literal.
Peer comment(s):

agree Evans (X)
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Thanks, Gilla!
agree K Donnelly
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Thanks a lot!
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "From the rest of the context, I could see that this is the right way of expressing the idea. Thank you, femme!"
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the historic protagonism we deserve/merit

An idea...
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the historic dimension that we deserve/our own historic domension

2 options!
Peer comment(s):

agree Aradai Pardo Martínez
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thank you Aradai! ;-)
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the historical magnitude that belongs to us

Another option.

Some examples:

ScienceStorm - Retrospective Analysis: Measuring the Historical ... - [ Traducir esta página ]
Retrospective Analysis: Measuring the Historical Magnitude of Turbidity Plumes Using Archived Imagery and Application of Lake Surface Temperature/Water ...
www.sciencestorm.com

It has to make a distinction of historical magnitude to justify being acclaimed one of the greatest of all-time. Skeptics would argue that the unit is all ...
news.google.com

An image with historical magnitude. BAYARD — Perhaps the oldest and maybe the only photograph of Chimney Rock in existence taken during the great migration ...
www.starherald.c
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the historic dimension (that) we are concerned with

I'm actually positing "we" do not live in the place but view it as a subject of study and are concerned with recovering its context.
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our (true) historical greatness

because the 'dimensión' is implicitly great and I think we'd be more likely to put it that way than to talk about historical dimensions.

Maybe proper, fitting, rightful or due historical greatness to get the idea of 'que nos corresponde', but 'true' seems more natural somehow.

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Note added at 15 hrs (2010-02-26 13:30:32 GMT)
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Greatness would also chime well with 'grandeza'.

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Note added at 15 hrs (2010-02-26 13:38:28 GMT)
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A couple of examples:

Shrine of the Black Madonna Bookstore: Noteworthy... teaches us and understand its use to confront the social ills in our community and for the restoration of African people to our historical greatness. ...
www.shrinebookstore.com/noteworthy.aspx?iid=189&cid= - Cached

House of Marathon: Cold War Redux: Not So Fast... and fully expect to restore the nation to its historical greatness. ... (Recently, Russia has started to raise its profile in Latin America via its ...
houseofmarathon.blogspot.com/.../080930usrussiachina-cold-war-redux-not.html - Cached



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Note added at 15 hrs (2010-02-26 13:39:02 GMT)
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Here's that second link:

http://houseofmarathon.blogspot.com/2008/09/080930usrussiach...
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