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31st translation contest: "A translator's life" » English to Romanian

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[...] Translators just didn't get recognition, they didn't expect to make much of a living, just get by. Very few people were actually trained as translators, but most had a solid college education and a solid knowledge of languages, at least their own language. I had a friend who fell exactly into that category and my circle of friends expanded to include other translators. I found them to be much more interesting as people, and discovered that we often had similar life experiences. I never had trouble making friends, but I always felt "different" and I'm sure they felt it too. When my friend retired, she recommended me as her replacement. I now entered the realm of Reinsurance, of which I knew nothing. I was also the only translator there, and didn't have much to fall back on. However, it was another notch up....

On my new job, I started looking through the files, asking questions and got the company to enroll me in Insurance courses. The College of Insurance was across the street, and I consulted fire codes, insurance policies and fire extinguisher catalogs in their library. I was learning what I had never had the luxury of being able to do before: research. The first time I had to translate a proposal for purposes of insurance of a nuclear plant, I got a call from the head man in that department, congratulating me on the job I had done. "Compares favorably with what we are used to," he said. What an upper! What happened was that I consulted a document in the files similar to the one I was tackling for guidance, but when I saw that my predecessor had used the word "nucleus" instead of "core", I realized that the files were useless to me. I went across the street to the library and looked up "nuclear plants." I immediately found all the terminology I needed.

It takes a great deal more than that to be a good translator these days, of course. [...]

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Entry #34864 — Discuss 0 — Variant: Romania
Iulia Parvu
Iulia Parvu
United Kingdom
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Pur și simplu, traducătorii nu primeau recunoașterea meritată, ei nesperând să facă cine știe ce avere din asta, ci doar să supraviețuiască
Flows well
Natalia_M
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Când amica mea s-a retras din activitate
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Natalia_M
plan de rezervă
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Eu aș fi z​is un plan​ B. Varian​ta ta sună​ mai bine!
Michelangela
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firma
Good term selection
Florin Ular
domeniul PSI
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Natalia_M
Asta da încurajare!
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Natalia_M
numaidecât
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Expresiv, ​potrivit p​entru o po​vestire pe​rsonală.
Vilma M
Entry #35008 — Discuss 0 — Variant: Romania
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aceștia nu se așteptau la un stil de viață prosper, dorindu-și doar un trai decent
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Elena_F
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Calitatea este comparabil mai bună
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Elena_F
miez
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Vilma M
Entry #35384 — Discuss 0 — Variant: Not specified
Laura Runcanu
Laura Runcanu
United Kingdom
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Ce fericire! Se întâmplase să consult ca termen de referință un document similar din dosare și am văzut că predecesoarea mea
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Aurelia Popa
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„nucleus” în loc de „core”
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Natalia_M
arhivele
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Natalia_M
Entry #35300 — Discuss 0 — Variant: Romania
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Mi s-au părut mult mai interesanți ca oameni ș
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Aurelia Popa
Intram acum în domeniul reasigurărilor, despre care nu știam o iotă.
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Aurelia Popa
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Entry #35897 — Discuss 0 — Variant: Romania
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În orice caz, a fost încă un pas înainte…
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Natalia_M