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impactos de bala

English translation: bullet wounds

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Spanish term or phrase:impactos de bala
English translation:bullet wounds
Entered by: Patricia Weist

18:47 Mar 2, 2011
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Law/Patents - Law (general) / general
Spanish term or phrase: impactos de bala
This text is for an expert medical witness' report on a patient.
The patient "sufrio 5 impactos de bala por arma de fuego al salir de una tienda en los EE.UU."
The translated version of this report says: "suffered 5 bullet impacts from a firearm when leaving a store". This sounds very heavy English to me, but I cannot think of the correct way to say it... 5 gunshot wounds.. would imply something slightly different, I think..
Could one say "was shot 5 times when leaving a store"?
Thank you in advance!
Patricia Weist
Local time: 10:19
bullet wounds
Explanation:


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sufrio 5 impactos de bala por arma de fuego al salir de una tienda en los EE.UU
suffered 5 firearm bullet wounds while coming out of a store in the USA.
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Sandro Tomasi
Local time: 10:19
Grading comment
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Summary of answers provided
4 +10bullet wounds
Sandro Tomasi
4 +4received 5 gunshot wounds
Adriana de Groote
4gunshot wounds
Ryan Armbrust Diaz (X)
Summary of reference entries provided
liz askew

Discussion entries: 7





  

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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +10
bullet wounds


Explanation:


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sufrio 5 impactos de bala por arma de fuego al salir de una tienda en los EE.UU
suffered 5 firearm bullet wounds while coming out of a store in the USA.

Sandro Tomasi
Local time: 10:19
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 558
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  liz askew
0 min
  -> Thank you, Liz Askew.
agree  Charles Davis
3 mins
  -> Thank you, Charles.
agree  FVS (X)
6 mins
  -> Thank you, FVS.
agree  Remy Arce
10 mins
  -> Thank you, Remy.
agree  Eileen Banks
10 mins
  -> Thank you, Eileen.
agree  Miriam Papps
24 mins
  -> Thank you, Miriam.
agree  Claudia Luque Bedregal
28 mins
  -> Thank you, Claudia.
disagree  Ryan Armbrust Diaz (X): Sorry, in an English-speaking country you would never say "firearm bullet wounds". It sounds way too patchy.
1 hr
  -> Your point is well taken. However, the terminological question is "impactos de bala" and my answer is "bullet wounds." The rest is context. Are you disagreeing with the translated term or the translated context?
agree  Maria Kisic
4 hrs
  -> Thank you, María.
agree  AllegroTrans
4 hrs
  -> Thank you, AllegroTrans.
agree  eski: BTW: I totally DISagree with Ryan's critique, above: Saludos. eski
6 hrs
  -> Thank you, eski.
agree  Thayenga: This is the correct terminology. :)
13 hrs
  -> Thank you, Thayenga.
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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
received 5 gunshot wounds


Explanation:
Me parece que eso es suficiente. Si dices "was shot 5 times", no queda claro si las 5 balas le dieron o no.

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Note added at 11 mins (2011-03-02 18:58:48 GMT)
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También: "sustained 5 gunshot wounds"

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Note added at 11 mins (2011-03-02 18:59:38 GMT)
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Adriana de Groote
Guatemala
Local time: 08:19
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 335

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Ines Garcia Botana
6 mins
  -> ¡Muchas gracias y saludos!
agree  Matthew Fuzzey
28 mins
  -> ¡Muchas gracias y saludos!
neutral  Ryan Armbrust Diaz (X): Perdón, pero si dice "was shot 5 times" queda muy claro que le dieron. Si dice "was shot at 5 times" no queda claro. Hay una distinción.
1 hr
  -> Gracias, Ryan, es probable que tengas razón.
agree  liz askew: This works too. [PDF] University of Dundee: Department of Forensic Medicine File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View 5. Degree of twist (twist is the number of inches/cms of bore required for one .... is the main mechanism in low velocity gunshot wound
2 hrs
  -> ¡Muchas gracias y saludos!
agree  AllegroTrans
4 hrs
  -> ¡Muchas gracias y saludos!
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12 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
gunshot wounds


Explanation:
I have to say I prefer the poster's "gunshot wounds" as it fits better into the sentence because you can drop the "por arma de fuego" after that, i.e. "...suffered five gunshot wounds while leaving a store in the United States."

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Note added at 16 Min. (2011-03-02 19:04:14 GMT)
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Sorry, I didn't see Adriana's answer when I posted mine. I still think "suffered" is more commonly used than "sustained", no offense.

Ryan Armbrust Diaz (X)
Germany
Local time: 16:19
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 4
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impacto - Diccionario Inglés-Español WordReference.com
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impacto - Traduccion ingles de diccionario ingles. ... el cadáver tiene varios ~s de bala there are several bullet wounds in the body ...
www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=impacto - Cached - Similar
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hole - English-Spanish Dictionary - WordReference.com
bullet hole, n, (hole made by a fired bullet), orificio de bala nm. The ...
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Vox Pocket Spanish-English Dictionary - Google Books Result
Vox - 2010 - Foreign Language Study - 736 pages
1⁄4 estar impaciente por hacer algo to be impatient to do STH . impacto nm impact. 1⁄2 impacto de bala (señal) bullet hole; (tiro) bullet wound: murió por ...
books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0071742905...

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Note added at 4 mins (2011-03-02 18:51:55 GMT)
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all you need to do was look in a dictionary:)

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Note added at 2 hrs (2011-03-02 21:10:21 GMT)
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reference to back up Adriana de Groote

[PDF]
University of Dundee: Department of Forensic Medicine
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View
5. Degree of twist (twist is the number of inches/cms of bore required for one .... is the main mechanism in low velocity gunshot wounds e.g. from a pistol, and in such cases ... SKIN SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS OF GUNSHOT (BULLET) WOUNDS ...
www.dundee.ac.uk/forensicmedicine/notes/gunshot.pdf - Similar

liz askew
United Kingdom
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 288
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