"cantar" temas
English translation: to show their stuff / present topics orally
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| 15:09 Jun 22, 2008 |
| Spanish to English translations [PRO] Art/Literary - Government / Politics | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Henry Hinds United States Local time: 07:19 | ||||||
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38 mins confidence: 
Expose/develop a topic orally / (be summoned to) the oral exposition Explanation: En este links tienes varias instancias del uso de 'cantar temas' en las oposiciones: http://www.buscaoposiciones.com/foro/Oposiciones-Jueces-fmen... |
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40 mins confidence: 
to show their stuff Explanation: One possibility anyway. |
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43 mins confidence:
to deliver/recite their lines (in this context maybe) Explanation: Really not sure if this fits! -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 44 mins (2008-06-22 15:53:43 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Or even "reel off" -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 46 mins (2008-06-22 15:55:48 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Just thinking of the idea that they are "performing" |
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2 hrs confidence:
recite topics Explanation: Decided to go for this - but with the proviso that the expression is used in complete seriousness. Nothing flippant here. People spend years holed up in libraries and at home, shelling out great quantities of money to their "preparadores" to get these exams. |
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4 hrs confidence:
awaiting to be called up for their oral examination Explanation: One of them is, at least for diplomats, the hallway at the end of which lies the "feared" hall in which the jury examining applicants for admission to the diplomatic corps convenes, hallway which for several hours echoes with the nervous steps of those awaiting to be called up for their oral examination. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 4 hrs (2008-06-22 19:26:57 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- also: hallway which echoes to the steps of those awaiting to be called up -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 4 hrs (2008-06-22 19:27:40 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- slight typo there: hallway which echoes to the nervous steps of those awaiting to be called up for their oral examination |
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5 hrs confidence:
tell their stories/sing their songs/tell tales Explanation: In my humble opinion, I think the author is using figurative language and it should be translated the same way too. |
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