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English Linguistics Translation Glossary

English term		English translation
sentence		We know that ‘apologies for absence were received’ and ‘an early announcement is expected’ come from language use in particular situations	Cristina Bolohan
Entered by: Cristina Bolohan
share in your future success		to participate in your future accomplishments	Coral Getino
Entered by: Coral Getino
Shoah		holocaust, calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, bale
single largest		largest ever
slam dunk		foregone conclusion, dead certainty, done deal, done and dusted	Mats Wiman
Entered by: Mats Wiman
soap factory		the soapery
solar rays / the sun's rays		"solar rays" and "the sun's rays" are identical in meaning
somebody "WOULD DO WISE TO" do sth...		an informal variant of "would do wisely to"
someone who betrays		treacherous	Lalit Sati
Entered by: Lalit Sati
soul-searching nit-picking		overly critical self-analysis
spinning the plates		juggling the needs/activities of the children
Sport nutrition		sport or sports nutrition
standard for the classification of words		discrimination, delineation,
structured abandonment timeout pro-forma		Outline of planned abandonment procedure
subject / object pronouns		definitely hypercorrection
subjunctive in a "that" clause		"that + subject + bare infinitive" or "that + subject + should + bare infinitive"	Vicky Papaprodromou
Entered by: Vicky Papaprodromou
Suddenly a tropical storm broke ....		start abruptly
surrounded by three sides		surrounded on three sides	Yolanda Broad
Entered by: Yolanda Broad
teeny tiny		petite
temperature dropped down vs went down		went down/broke/dropped down to XXX degrees
testament (to)		testimony (to)	Nick Lingris
Entered by: Nick Lingris
the -al suffix		-al makes it an adjective
the band HAVE opened the ceremony		the band HAS opened the ceremony
The company has been specially engaged in the manufacture of chemical raw drugs.		the company specializes in the manufacture of pharmaceutical chemicals
the correct position of the verb in a specific indirect question		Rewrite
The Eastern's view of the Western		The Easterners' view of the Westerners
the katakana and hiragana monosyllabic writing systems		syllabaries
the letter has been filed on May 17, 2005 (grammar question)		the letter was filed on May 17, 2005	airmailrpl
Entered by: airmailrpl
the prefix a- or an-		Greek origin meaning without, not, or lacking in
The Warehouse Is the Order		if you have a warehouse you deal with many purchase orders and you have to keep everything in orde
the yet-to-be-submitted declarations		the outstanding declarations
thereto (in this context)		by not +ing
thesaurus/thesauri		thesaurus - plural: thesauri or thesauruses
this is due to that...		this is due to the fact that /// this is because
those		the facilitator of a compound sentence fragment with grammatical finesse
times higher than vs. times as high as		300% vs. 400%
TM		Translation Memory
to be alive on this journey		(lucky) to experience this (and being fully aware and attuned)	Yvonne Gallagher
Entered by: Yvonne Gallagher
to be on a bender		to go on a drinking binge
to build upon this idea		as an example to further support this premise

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