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English to Spanish - Rates: 0.06 - 0.10 EUR per word / 25 - 35 EUR per hour Catalan to Spanish - Rates: 0.06 - 0.10 EUR per word / 25 - 35 EUR per hour English to Catalan - Rates: 0.06 - 0.10 EUR per word / 25 - 35 EUR per hour Spanish to Catalan - Rates: 0.06 - 0.10 EUR per word / 25 - 35 EUR per hour
English to Spanish: Car brochure Detailed field: Automotive / Cars & Trucks
Source text - English When we launched the seventh generation Civic, it changed owners ideas about hatchbacks. Instead of designing a body shape and then fitting people into it afterwards, we’d started inside.
We worked out how much space passengers needed to travel in complete comfort, then built the car around them. It was a big idea then.
It still is now.
Designing a car from the inside out meant challenging some fundamental ideas.
By developing a flexible plastic fuel tank,
we were able to move the exhaust and suspension systems to the rear of the car.
This allowed us to remove the central tunnel and lower the entire floor, to give class-leading space and legroom in the rear. Making the suspension more compact and repositioning it right at the corners of the chassis makes the cabin longer and wider, creating more space for people. And because it reduces intrusion into the boot space, there’s more room for their luggage, too.
Mounting the gearshift in the dash brings two major benefits. Firstly, because the centre console isn’t full of gearbox as it would be in most other cars, we’ve been able to devote it entirely to practical storage space. Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, it’s the most natural place for the gearshift to be, positioning it at the ideal reach angle and distance for relaxed, comfortable driving. We could have taken the easy option, and simply built a bigger car. But instead, we’ve applied innovative thinking and made clever use of space.
The result is a spacious, practical interior that benefits driver and passengers alike.
Translation - Spanish Cuando lanzamos la séptima generación de Civic, cambió el concepto de los conductores acerca de los coches de tres y cinco puertas. En vez de diseñar primero la forma de la carrocería y acomodar luego a las personas en el interior, empezamos por el interior.
Establecimos el espacio que necesitan los pasajeros para viajar cómodamente y construimos el coche a su alrededor. Fue una gran idea.
Y sigue siéndolo.
Diseñar un coche empezando por el interior supuso poner en cuestión ideas básicas.
Al diseñar un depósito de combustible de plástico flexible, pudimos desplazar los sistemas de suspensión y escape a la parte trasera del coche.
Esto nos permitió eliminar el túnel central y bajar todo el piso para proporcionar un espacio general y para las piernas muy amplio en la parte trasera. Haciendo la suspensión más compacta y ubicándola en las esquinas del chasis, la cabina resulta más larga y ancha, lo que crea más espacio para los ocupantes. Y al reducir la intrusión en el maletero, existe más espacio para el equipaje.
Montar el cambio de velocidades en el salpicadero proporciona dos ventajas importantes. La primera es que la caja de cambios no ocupa toda la consola central como en la mayoría de los coches, por lo que hemos podido convertirla en un práctico espacio de almacenaje. La segunda, y quizá la más importante, es que ésta es la ubicación más natural para el cambio de velocidades, con la distancia y ángulo de alcance perfectos para una conducción cómoda y relajada. Podíamos haber escogido la opción más fácil y fabricar sencillamente un coche de mayor tamaño. Sin embargo, hemos aplicado ideas innovadoras y hemos aprovechado mejor el espacio.
El resultado es un interior práctico y espacioso que beneficia tanto al conductor como a los pasajeros.
From July 1999 to March 2001 I worked as an in-house technical translator / project manager for STAR.
Servicios Lingüísticos, S.L., the Spanish headquarters of the STAR Group, which develops the Transit and
TermStar.
Since 2001 I work as a full-time freelance translator and proofreader/editor from English into
Spanish (both Castilian and U.S. Spanish) and Catalan. Some of the recent projects I have taken
part are the following:
Software localization ─ Windows 98 and Internet Explorer 4.0, Transit and TermStar 3.0, StarOffice,
Microsoft CRM, SAP (Air Products, Nestlé), a SW for managing the public libraries of Catalonia, Gmail
interface, Draeger medical equipment. Localization of web pages.
Translation of many user manuals for mouses, USB devices, monitors, Epson, Canon and Lexmark printers,
HP workstations. Translation of many of the updates for Dell computers for all the Spanish market. These
projects have included: selection of terminology, correction, translation of software strings and on-line help,
coordination of work teams, writing style manuals, revision of translations.
Translation of more than 45 repair and user manuals for several automotive companies ─ GM, Toyota,
Renault, Nissan. Translation of brochures, internal reports, marketing. Chief Translator for Renault
technical documentation into Spanish (6 months).
Translation of many technical and user manuals for different tools ─ Gribetz quilting machines, Mark Andy
presses (XP5000, LP3000,4150), Industrial Scientific multigas detection systems, Komax rotary printers,
Trivex lenses, drilling machines, polishing machines, chain saws. Translation of air conditioning manuals
(Mitsubishi Electrics, MovinCool).
Translation of CAD software manuals ─ Different training manuals for Solidworks Corporation and Cosmos.
Architectural projects and projects of civil engineering (water cleaning plant, tunnels, subway construction,
etc.) for Dragados.
Medical translations ─ Clinical trials, medial devices manuals and software for Draeger and other
important companies. Pharmaceutical trials and reports.
Translation of documentation about security elements in nuclear power plants; installation and use of NG
import terminals and service manuals for petrochemical plants.
Translation of fax, modems and cell phones manuals, internal information for telephony companies, market
survey for new products.
Translation of new technology projects, for example, Nomadic Media project
(wireless broad band).
