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Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

each a distinctively individual tool

Spanish translation:

caracterizados por su singularidad y sus diferencias peculiares /peculiaridades

Added to glossary by berbeito
Aug 2, 2022 16:04
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English term

each a distinctively individual tool

English to Spanish Art/Literary Poetry & Literature guidebook
Men with pitchforks would ensure the thick layer of wheat or barley on the era was turned so that the stalks at the bottom came to the top to be threshed. These pitchforks were traditionally made from a single piece of wood with three, four or five curved tines which allowed for the easy tossing of the straw. Such pitchforks were usually made in the mountainous areas, preferably from ash or holly, with the branches of the trees being trained to grow into the correct forked shape before being cut and finished. As time passed more modern metal forks tended to be used instead, with the older wooden ones, each a distinctively individual tool, as often as not consigned to become an ornament, a dislocated moment of history, on the wall of a bar somewhere, though you can still buy them for their original purpose.
Proposed translations (Spanish)
4 caracterizados por su singularidad y sus diferencias peculiares /peculiaridades
3 cada uno de los cuales era una herramienta única, de características singulares/irrepetibles
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Proposed translations

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caracterizados por su singularidad y sus diferencias peculiares /peculiaridades

En vez de reproducir la construcción inglesa, muy premiosa en español, intentaría transmitir la idea de forma más ágil y natural en una traducción libre de este tipo:

- "Con el paso del tiempo se fueron imponiendo los bieldos metálicos más modernos, mientras los tradicionales de madera, caracterizados por su singularidad y sus diferencias peculiares, solían convertirse en ornamentos, momentos dislocados de la historia, en la pared de algún bar, etc."

- "Con el paso del tiempo se fueron imponiendo los modernos bieldos metálicos, mientras sus precursores de madera, caracterizados por su singularidad y sus peculiaridades, pasaban a convertirse en objetos decorativos, momentos dislocados de la historia, en la pared de algún bar, etc."
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cada uno de los cuales era una herramienta única, de características singulares/irrepetibles

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