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English to Spanish: 9th ProZ.com Translation Contest - Entry #8896
Source text - English I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought, but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.
A businessman's conversation should be regulated by fewer and simpler rules than any other function of the human animal. They are:
Have something to say.
Say it.
Stop talking.
Beginning before you know what you want to say and keeping on after you have said it lands a merchant in a lawsuit or the poorhouse, and the first is a short cut to the second. I maintain a legal department here, and it costs a lot of money, but it's to keep me from going to law.
It's all right when you are calling on a girl or talking with friends after dinner to run a conversation like a Sunday-school excursion, with stops to pick flowers; but in the office your sentences should be the shortest distance possible between periods. Cut out the introduction and the peroration, and stop before you get to secondly. You've got to preach short sermons to catch sinners; and deacons won't believe they need long ones themselves. Give fools the first and women the last word. The meat's always in the middle of the sandwich. Of course, a light butter on either side of it doesn't do any harm if it's intended for a man who likes butter.
Remember, too, that it's easier to look wise than to talk wisdom. Say less than the other fellow and listen more than you talk; for when a man's listening he isn't telling on himself and he's flattering the fellow who is. Give most men a good listener and most women enough note-paper and they'll tell all they know. Money talks -- but not unless its owner has a loose tongue, and then its remarks are always offensive. Poverty talks, too, but nobody wants to hear what it has to say.
Translation - Spanish Recuerdo haber leído que algunas personas usan el lenguaje para ocultar lo que piensan, pero, en mi experiencia, son muchos más los que hablan en lugar de pensar.
El discurso del hombre de negocios debería estar gobernado por reglas más simples y más escuetas que las que rigen cualquier otra actividad del animal pensante. Estas serían:
Tener algo que decir.
Decirlo.
Dejar de hablar.
Comenzar a hablar antes de saber qué se va a decir y seguir hablando después de haberlo dicho exponen al comerciante a un pleito legal o a la miseria. Y lo primero es la forma más rápida de llegar a lo segundo. Yo aquí tengo un departamento legal, y me cuesta mucho dinero, pero lo pago para no tener que vérmelas ante la ley.
Abordar el diálogo como si fuera una excursión dominical, donde uno va de aquí para allá recogiendo flores, está muy bien si se quiere conquistar a una chica o si se está de sobremesa con amigos, pero en la oficina, las oraciones deben ser el trayecto más corto posible entre dos puntos finales. Suprime la introducción y los rodeos, y no te extiendas en segundos términos. A los pecadores se los convence con sermones cortos, y también a los pastores, porque ellos no creen necesitar largas diatribas. Concede a los necios la primera palabra, y a las mujeres, la última: la carne está siempre en la mitad del sándwich. Por supuesto, un poco de mantequilla a cada lado no hace daño alguno, suponiendo que al otro le apetezca la mantequilla.
Recuerda, asimismo, que es más fácil pasar por listo que hablar con sabiduría. Di menos que tu interlocutor, y, más que hablar, escucha, pues cuando un hombre escucha no se delata a sí mismo, pero en cambio lisonjea a quien lo hace. Si a un hombre le dedicas suficiente atención, y a una mujer, suficiente papel de carta, ambos te dirán todo lo que saben. El dinero habla, pero sólo cuando su dueño es suelto de lengua, y en estos casos siempre termina ofendiendo. La pobreza también habla, pero nadie tiene interés en escuchar lo que dice.
English to Spanish: Published translated book (Politics, Sociology): Sample pages
Source text - English Book: Choose Life
Authors: Arnold J. Toynbee- Daisaku Ikeda
Published by: Oxford University Press, London, 1976, reissued 1989
ISBN: 0-19-215258-0
Passage of source text (pages 118-119 English book)
Breeding to the Limit
Ikeda: It is generally accepted that birth control in the developing countries, which are largely responsible for the modern population explosion, is an important step in resolving the difficulty. However, there are obstacles in the path of its realization. For instance, there is the moral issue. Many people, especially those who regard children as so-called gifts of God, feel that it is immoral to destroy prenatal human life artificially. As a religious man, I am deeply conscious of the paramount, irreplaceable value of human life; I deeply believe that all human actions must be based on an awareness of the greatness of life. On the other hand, birth control --the lessening to some extent of the possibility of giving birth--is by no means trampling on the dignity of life. On the contrary, if such measures can alleviate the chronic starvation of the developing nations, they are a practical way to demonstrate even greater respect for life. As long as it effectively promotes the continued survival and expansion of mankind, birth control deserves our support.
TOYNBEE: Recently the advance of science has affected the problem of human sexual relations in two ways. Science has reduced the rate of premature deaths--especially deaths in infancy and women's deaths in childbirth--and has increased the average length of life. This has been happening not only in the developed countries but in the developing countries too. In addition, science has discovered means that are effective and apparently physically harmless for women to have sexual intercourse without incurring the natural liability of becoming pregnant.
The first of the two effects of science has been to cause a population explosion. The death rate can be reduced quickly and easily by public-health measures, but reduction in the birthrate requires voluntary action by individuals. This, in turn, requires not only a knowledge of, and access to, new scientific means of avoiding pregnancy but also a break with mankind's traditional habit of breeding to the limit. Consequently, the adoption of birth control to offset the already achieved reduction in the death rate is slowest in the developing countries. The peoples of these countries are both the largest and the poorest part of mankind.
The impulse to breed to the limit has, no doubt, been implanted by nature in man, as in all the nonhuman species of living beings, as a device (this purposive language is, of course, not to be taken literally) for ensuring the survival of the species. In man, this natural impulse has been rationalized by being translated into religious sanctions. It has been believed that a man must make sure of leaving behind him male descendants to perform rites that are held to be necessary for the welfare of the dead man's spirit; or, as in the doctrine of the Judaic religions, man has been commanded by God to "be fruitful and multiply and replenish the Earth and subdue it." (Chapter 1, verse 28, of the Book of Genesis in the Jewish Torah, which Christians call The Old Testament.)
Translation - Spanish Libro: Elige la vida
Autores: Arnold J. Toynbee- Daisaku Ikeda
Publicado en español por: Emecé Editores, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2005
Traducido por Paula Tizzano
ISBN: 978-950-04-2740-1
Pasaje correspondiente a la página 137 del libro publicado:
REPRODUCIRSE HASTA EL LÍMITE
Ikeda: En general, se suele plantear que el control de la natalidad en los países en vías de desarrollo, donde se produce la mayor explosión demográfica del planeta, sería una medida importante para resolver esta dificultad. Sin embargo, esta iniciativa se presenta sembrada de obstáculos, y uno de ellos es de índole moral. Muchas personas, especialmente las que piensan que los hijos son, por así decirlo, regalos de Dios, sienten que es inmoral destruir la vida prenatal por medios artificiales. Como hombre de firmes convicciones religiosas, comprendo de raíz el valor sublime e irreemplazable de la vida humana; creo profundamente que todos los actos de los hombres deben basarse en una clara conciencia de la dignidad de la vida. Por otro lado, el control de la natalidad –es decir, la disminución relativa de las posibilidades de procrear— no implica de ningún modo un ultraje a la dignidad de la vida. Por el contrario, si estas medidas pueden aliviar el hambre de los países en desarrollo, donde constituye un mal endémico, son una manera práctica de manifestar un respeto aun mayor por la vida. Mientras el control de la natalidad promueva eficazmente la supervivencia y la expansión de la humanidad en forma sostenida, opino que merece nuestro apoyo.
Toynbee: En épocas recientes, el desarrollo de la ciencia ha afectado de dos maneras el problema de las relaciones sexuales. Por un lado, ha reducido la tasa de muertes prematuras –especialmente, la mortalidad infantil y los fallecimientos durante el parto y el puerperio—y ha incrementado la expectativa promedio de vida. Esto no sólo ocurrió en las naciones desarrolladas, sino también en los países en vías de desarrollo. Pero, además, la ciencia ha descubierto medios eficaces y aparentemente inocuos para que la mujer pueda mantener relaciones sexuales sin correr el riesgo natural de embarazarse.
De ambos efectos producidos por la ciencia, el primero redundó en la explosión demográfica. La tasa de mortalidad puede reducirse en forma fácil y rápida a través de programas de salud pública, pero la reducción de la tasa de natalidad exige una acción voluntaria de parte de los individuos. Esto, a su vez, no sólo implica conocer y acceder a nuevos métodos científicos para evitar la procreación, sino también revertir el hábito tradicional del género humano que es reproducirse hasta el límite. En consecuencia, adoptar programas de planificación familiar para contrarrestar la reducción ya lograda en la tasa de mortalidad es un proceso que avanza mucho más lentamente en los países en desarrollo; los pueblos de estas naciones son los más numerosos, pero también los más pobres de la humanidad.
Sin duda, el impulso a la reproducción ilimitada le ha sido proporcionado al hombre por naturaleza –y también a los demás seres vivientes- como mecanismo para asegurar la supervivencia de la especie. Y cuando digo “mecanismo”, desde luego, no me refiero al significado literal, sino a una figura retórica. En el hombre, este impulso natural ha sido racionalizado a través de su expresión en mandamientos religiosos. Existe la creencia tradicional de que un hombre debe dejar descendientes varones, para que, después de su muerte, estos efectúen los ritos fúnebres necesarios a fin de que el alma del padre fallecido descanse en paz. En otros casos, como en la doctrina de las religiones judaicas, Dios le encomienda al hombre: “Sed fecundos y multiplicaos y henchid la Tierra y sojuzgadla” (capítulo 1, verso 28 del Libro del Génesis en la Torah judía, que los cristianos llaman Antiguo Testamento).
English to Spanish: Published translated book (Marketing): Sample pages General field: Tech/Engineering Detailed field: Marketing
Source text - English GANO, Dean: Apollo Root Cause Analysis, Richland, WA: Apollonian Publications, 2009. (ISBN 978-1-883677-01-05) - El análisis Apollo de causas raíz, trad. Paula Tizzano.
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Commitment to Continuous Improvement
To exist is to understand the here and now; to grow and prosper requires a commitment to learning. While a fundamental tenet of the quality movement since W. Edwards Deming, the renowned quality management consultant, continuous improvement is much harder to do than to say. The human mind is designed to establish patterns that cause success, and once we find a success path it is hard to change. We simply do not like change of any kind. It is only the few who actually experience the value of change who understand this concept.
The willingness to change is a lesser force than the need to maintain status quo. I saw this in action when I helped conduct a review of a corporate safety audit at one of our client’s plants. We were trying to find the causes of a significant breakdown in the safety program. Along the way we found many causes, but as the review continued, I began to notice increasing evidence of a failure to learn from mistakes. In fact, I noticed a total lack of respect for learning. This facility had a proud history of being Number One in the Corporation when it came to safety. Having succeeded, they came to believe they had a formula for success and could ride on that formula forever.
Translation - Spanish GANO, Dean: Apollo Root Cause Analysis, Richland, WA: Apollonian Publications, 2009. (ISBN 978-1-883677-01-05) - El análisis Apollo de causas raíz, trad. Paula Tizzano.
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La aspiración consciente a la superación continua
Existir es comprender el aquí y ahora; para crecer y prosperar hace falta el compromiso de aprender. Aunque la «superación continua» es un principio fundamental del movimiento de la calidad total desde los tiempos de W. Edwards Deming, el famoso consultor especializado en este tipo de gestión, hay que reconocer que aspirar a la superación continua es algo mucho más fácil de decir que de lograr. La mente humana está diseñada para establecer patrones que conducen al éxito; cuando se implementa un camino exitoso, es muy difícil de cambiar. No nos gusta el cambio, de ninguna clase. Los únicos que entienden este concepto son los pocos que experimentan empíricamente el valor del cambio.
La disposición a cambiar es una fuerza de magnitud inferior a la necesidad de mantener el statu quo. Lo he comprobado cuando fui convocado para supervisar una auditoría de seguridad efectuada en una de las fábricas de un cliente. Tratábamos de encontrar las causas de un importante fallo en el programa de seguridad. A lo largo del proceso fuimos encontrando muchas causas, pero a medida que esta revisión se extendía en el tiempo, también encontré pruebas cada vez más contundentes de que existía una gran incapacidad de aprender de los errores. A decir verdad, noté una total falta de respeto al aprendizaje. Esta planta se enorgullecía de tener el mejor registro histórico de toda la corporación; era el establecimiento número uno en materia de seguridad. Como la planta se jactaba de sus resultados, allí todos creían ser dueños de la fórmula del éxito, y estaban convencidos de que esa fórmula les daría frutos para siempre.
English to Spanish: The Windhover - El gavilán General field: Art/Literary Detailed field: Poetry & Literature
Source text - English THE WINDHOVER, by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1877)
To Christ our Lord
I CAUGHT this morning morning’s minion, king-
dom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon,
in his riding
Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding
High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing,
As a skate’s heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl
and gliding
Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding
Stirred for a bird, – the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!
Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here
Buckle! And the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion
Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier!
No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion
Shine, and blue-beak embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermillion.
Translation - Spanish Traducción de Paula Tizzano Fernández.
Quedan todos los derechos reservados.
El gavilán
A Cristo, nuestro Señor
Al protegido de la mañana esta mañana sorprendí; al
príncipe de la claridad,
al moteado milano de la madrugada; lo vi cabalgar por el
llano ondulante,
tenso el aire bajo el cuerpo, remontar a trancos las alturas,
y, en una epifanía, como clavando la brida,
plegar el ala para virar.
Y voltear y voltear trazando amplios arcos
como el filo de un patín,
blandiendo ante el bravío viento arremetidas y planeos.
¡Helo allí a mi corazón, antes guarecido,
conmovido por un ave, pletórica de esplendor y maestría!
Belleza en bruto, bravura, vitalidad…
y ¡ay! aire, donaire, airón,
lanzándose de lleno. Pero, ¿no se torna luego,
oh, mi paladín,
el fuego que en él ha de brotar mil veces
más bello y temerario?
No es de extrañar: se bruñe el arado a fuerza de zapar
—golpe, surco
y caballón—, tal como un tizón de azules crestas, alma mía,
transmuta en oro bermejo de tanto rodar,
restregarse y restallar.
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Master's degree - Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain
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Years of experience: 37. Registered at ProZ.com: Aug 2007.
English to Spanish (UJI (Spain) - Ph. D. Candidate in Translation and ) Spanish to English (UJI (Spain) - Ph. D. Candidate in Translation and ) English to Spanish (UJI (Spain) - Master of Research in Translation St) Spanish to English (UJI (Spain) - Master Research in Translation Studi) English to Spanish (UBA (Argentina) - Major in Clinical Psychology)
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What is there to be known about my career that you may find interesting?
To begin with, in the course of more than 25 years in the profession, I have been fortunate to build up a solid, long-lasting, and rewarding network of clients and colleagues. As I strive to maintain and expand this network, I do my best to continue developing myself creating value in every aspect of my work. I consider translation as my foremost mission in life, and aspire to make great and sincere contributions in this field.
You will find in my resume more than 8,000 published and translated press articles, websites, software tools, newsletters, corporative documents and handbooks, movie scripts and journals, plus more than 80 published translated books: essays about Social Science, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Business and Religion, as well as Literature (novels, sci-fi, poetry, and best-sellers) for top publishers from Spain, México, Argentina and Japan, all with their respective ISBNs.
I have a long and fruitful experience tutoring translators, editorial and press staff. Many of my former students are now active and successful translators in different parts of the world. It is my wish that they outshine me and come to be first-line linguists. Fostering capable successors is an important goal and purpose in my professional life.
I also have expertise in diplomatic translation, PR documents, corporative and organizational guidelines and handbooks. I take assignments related to governmental offices from several Spanish-speaking countries, as well as for several agencies in the UN system.
As for my scholarly and academic studies, they focus in Linguistics and Communication, Cultural Studies, Psychology, Eastern Studies, Religion, and Peace Studies. I am a doctoral candidate in Translation Studies at Universitat Jaume I in Castellón, Spain, and I have earned a Interuniversitary Master in Research in Translation and Interpretation Studies by Universitat Jaume I-Universitat de Valencia. I have also majored in Psychology (Universidad de Buenos Aires) and have additional postgraduate studies in Education (FLACSO), Contemporary Philosophy (UNMP), as well as complementary formal language studies (French and Japanese). Besides my steadfast activity as an English-Spanish translator, some of my translations from French, Italian and Portuguese have been published in Spain and Argentina.
Movies and reading are the closest to a hobby in a very busy daily life, where a big family and volunteering work also constitute a source of pride and joy.
As for my vision and mission as a translator, please feel welcome at my English website, www.letras-vivas.com.
As a personal remark, I am a Soka Gakkai International member, and I consider Daisaku Ikeda as my mentor both in the art of writing, and in the art of living. Whichever impact I may have in connection with words and writing, I have learnt from him, to whom I am sincerely and deeply indebted. I recommend his works and books to every translator and linguist.
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