Oct 16, 2017 12:23
6 yrs ago
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Spanish term
Poco imaginaban los atribuidos precursores
Spanish to English
Social Sciences
Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.
This little section is causing me much grief. I will break it up into a couple questions. The whole thing is a problem, nu the main problem areas are "Poco imaginaban los atribuidos precursores" and "cómo vaya instrumentándose su papel".
Castilian Spanish to UK English
TIA!! :)
Orignal
...si algo parece seguro es que un ingrediente dominante del futuro va a ser la Red. O, dicho de otra manera, todo tiende a evolucionar adherido a cómo vaya instrumentándose su papel. Poco imaginaban los atribuidos precursores por dónde acabaría discurriendo la realidad que trataban de impulsar… poco más de medio siglo atrás.
VERY rough draft
...if anything is a certainty, it is that the Internet will play a dominant role in our future. Or, put another way, everything tends to evolve according to how its role is played. Little did they imagine where the ascribed precursors they tried to promote would lead to only a little more than half a century earlier.
Castilian Spanish to UK English
TIA!! :)
Orignal
...si algo parece seguro es que un ingrediente dominante del futuro va a ser la Red. O, dicho de otra manera, todo tiende a evolucionar adherido a cómo vaya instrumentándose su papel. Poco imaginaban los atribuidos precursores por dónde acabaría discurriendo la realidad que trataban de impulsar… poco más de medio siglo atrás.
VERY rough draft
...if anything is a certainty, it is that the Internet will play a dominant role in our future. Or, put another way, everything tends to evolve according to how its role is played. Little did they imagine where the ascribed precursors they tried to promote would lead to only a little more than half a century earlier.
Proposed translations
(English)
4 +6 | Little did those now considered to have been the forerunners | patinba |
4 +3 | Those accredited as its pioneers could not have imagined | Monica B, MA |
Proposed translations
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Selected
Little did those now considered to have been the forerunners
imagine that ...
one possibility
one possibility
Peer comment(s):
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Robert Forstag
: I think “little did those supposed forerunners” would be tighter here (but this does not differ enough from your proposal to warrant a separate entry).
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agree |
neilmac
: Little did they imagine how it would end up...
2 hrs
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agree |
MollyRose
8 hrs
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agree |
Marcelo González
13 hrs
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agree |
Muriel Vasconcellos
20 hrs
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agree |
Chema Nieto Castañón
: yes, supposed forerunners; little did those supposed forerunners imagine...
1 day 12 hrs
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6 hrs
Those accredited as its pioneers could not have imagined
Those accredited as its pioneers could not have imagined where the reality that they tried to [...]
The subject of the original sentence is los atribuidos precursores. This suggestion switches up the syntax a bit but I think it sounds more natural.
The subject of the original sentence is los atribuidos precursores. This suggestion switches up the syntax a bit but I think it sounds more natural.
Discussion
Here, los atribuidos precursores works as subject of imaginaban:
Los atribuidos precursores poco imaginaban (nunca habrían podido imaginar) lo que iba a suceder.
You could use, as you suggest, pocos as subject;
pocos imaginaban lo que iba a suceder.
But that is a different story...
Una pregunta: POCOS o Poco imaginaban?
Una pregunta: POCOS o Poco imaginaban?