Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

impide que se actúe con total impunidad y se haga alarde

English translation:

stops them with acting with total impunity and then showing off

    The asker opted for community grading. The question was closed on 2009-06-05 22:54:20 based on peer agreement (or, if there were too few peer comments, asker preference.)
Jun 1, 2009 22:55
14 yrs ago
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Spanish term

impide que se actúe con total impunidad y se haga alarde

Spanish to English Art/Literary Other
Voy bien en cuanto a una traducción de la frase de arriba? El español es el original, que les doy para mas contexto:

Todos sabemos que al descargar una película de Internet estamos siendo desleales con un gran número de trabajadores que la hicieron posible; guionista, director, productor, actores, maquillador, electricista, cámara, y un larguísimo etcétera.
Al igual ocurre con un disco; compositor, autor, interprete, músicos, ingenieros de sonido, estudios de grabación, diseñadores, y de nuevo un largo etcétera. Pero aún así nada impide que se actúe con total impunidad e incluso se haga alarde del merito.

Traducción:

We all know that when downloading a movie from the internet, we are being disloyal to many workers -- screenwriters, directors, producers, actors, makeup artists, electrician, camera men and many others -- that made it possible.
The same happens with a disk as we are disloyal to composers, authors, interpreters, musicians, sound engineers, recording studies, designers and many others once again. But even then nothing prevents us from acting with total impunity and the merit is even bragged about.

*nothing is stopping us from acting as if we are free from punishment and we even boast about our merit.

Proposed translations

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4 mins
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stops them with acting with total impunity and then showing off

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Note added at 6 mins (2009-06-01 23:01:37 GMT)
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probably stop them FROM acting is better
Peer comment(s):

agree Julie Thompson : or, "nothing stops US from acting with total impunity..."
1 hr
thanks. it is US
agree Amani Harrison : stops them 'from' acting ..., otherwise agree.
1 hr
yes, should be from. Thanks
agree Richard McDorman : Yes, I agree as well, as long as "with" is replaced with "from."
1 hr
absolutely. Thanks
agree Juan Carlos García
3 hrs
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+1
3 mins

stops actions from going totally unpunished and they show off about it

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Peer comment(s):

agree Natalia Pedrosa (X)
7 hrs
Gracias, Natalia!
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4 hrs

stops us from acting with total impunity, and even bragging about it (later)

I like your version, but it may not be necessary to keep 'merit' here
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6 hrs

stops us from acting with total impunity and even patting ourselves in the back for it.

Alternatively.
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+1
7 hrs

nothing prevent us from acting with total impunity and boasting about...

Yet another possibility. ;)

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Note added at 7 hrs (2009-06-02 06:25:16 GMT)
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Sorry, "prevents us".
Peer comment(s):

agree MartaHS : agree; this is the best translation in my opinion.
2 days 20 hrs
Thank you very much, Marta HS. Regards.
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