"cantar" temas

inglés translation: to show their stuff / present topics orally

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Término o frase en español: "cantar" temas
Traducción al inglés:to show their stuff / present topics orally
Aportado por: Wil Hardman (X)

15:09 Jun 22, 2008
Traducciones de español a inglés [PRO]
Art/Literary - Gobierno / Política
Término o frase en español: "cantar" temas
From an article about Spain's diplomatic school. This exert is about a corridor where students wait to take the exams to gain entrance to the Spanish diplomatic corps.

Uno de ellos es, al menos para los diplomáticos, el pasillo al final del cual se encuentra la “temible” sala en la que se reúne el tribunal de la oposición de acceso al cuerpo diplomático, pasillo por el que retumban durante horas las nerviosas pisadas de quienes aguardan a que les convoquen a “cantar” temas.

It's the final part I am struggling with, students are summoned to "cantar" temas-

Thanks for any help.
I suppose it must have some kind of figurative meaning.
Wil Hardman (X)
Reino Unido
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to show their stuff
Explicación:
One possibility anyway.
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Henry Hinds
Estados Unidos
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Thanks everyone, I went for this because it is nice and ambiguous and also works well within the text. However, I don't think it fully captures the meaning of the original.
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Resumen de las respuestas recibidas
5Expose/develop a topic orally / (be summoned to) the oral exposition
MarinaM
4to show their stuff
Henry Hinds
4tell their stories/sing their songs/tell tales
Carmen Smith
3recite topics
Noni Gilbert Riley
2to deliver/recite their lines (in this context maybe)
Dave 72
1awaiting to be called up for their oral examination
andres-larsen


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38 minutos   Nivel de confianza: Answerer confidence 5/5
Expose/develop a topic orally / (be summoned to) the oral exposition


Explicación:
En este links tienes varias instancias del uso de 'cantar temas' en las oposiciones:

http://www.buscaoposiciones.com/foro/Oposiciones-Jueces-fmen...

MarinaM
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Neutral  Henry Hinds: En español se "expone" un tema, but in English a topic is not "exposed", it is "presented".
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to show their stuff


Explicación:
One possibility anyway.

Henry Hinds
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Thanks everyone, I went for this because it is nice and ambiguous and also works well within the text. However, I don't think it fully captures the meaning of the original.
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43 minutos   Nivel de confianza: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
to deliver/recite their lines (in this context maybe)


Explicación:
Really not sure if this fits!

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Note added at 44 mins (2008-06-22 15:53:43 GMT)
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Or even "reel off"

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Note added at 46 mins (2008-06-22 15:55:48 GMT)
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Just thinking of the idea that they are "performing"

Dave 72
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recite topics


Explicación:
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.

Noni Gilbert Riley
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awaiting to be called up for their oral examination


Explicación:
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.


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also:

hallway which echoes to the steps of those awaiting to be called up

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Note added at 4 hrs (2008-06-22 19:27:40 GMT)
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slight typo there:

hallway which echoes to the nervous steps of those awaiting to be called up for their oral examination

andres-larsen
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tell their stories/sing their songs/tell tales


Explicación:
In my humble opinion, I think the author is using figurative language and it should be translated the same way too.

Carmen Smith
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