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due from the mainland

Spanish translation: están por llegar del continente en cualquier momento

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English term or phrase:due from the mainland
Spanish translation:están por llegar del continente en cualquier momento
Entered by: Lydia De Jorge

14:24 Oct 19, 2006
English to Spanish translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Journalism
English term or phrase: due from the mainland
This small island, set like a jewel in the Philippine sea, is only a half kilometre across. [...] Hurricane Antony – the latest to be spun off the apparently permanent El Nino storm which continues to wreak havoc around the Pacific Rim – touched here only briefly, but it was long enough to destroy everything these people had built up over generations. [...] We will return to these scenes when the first aid helicopters arrive – they are ***due from the mainland*** any minute now – and in the meantime we can take you to an underwater view of the coral reef here.


Está en una isla de Filipinas, pero no dice en cual. ¿De dónde vendrán los helicópteros? ¿De otra isla más grande? ¿Del continente?
Ana Juliá
Spain
Local time: 11:16
están por llegar del continente en cualquier momento
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Lydia De Jorge
United States
Local time: 04:16
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Gracias a todos
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2deben estar
Lakasa Stnorden
4provenientes de tierra firme
María Susana Hernández
4están por llegar del continente en cualquier momento
Lydia De Jorge


  

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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
deben estar


Explanation:
partiendo del continente en estos momentos

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Note added at 6 mins (2006-10-19 14:30:30 GMT)
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mainland en oposición a isla

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Note added at 7 mins (2006-10-19 14:31:49 GMT)
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o deben estar en camino en estos momentos

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Note added at 8 mins (2006-10-19 14:32:47 GMT)
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mainland / "meInl@nd / n: the mainland la masa territorial de un país o continente excluyendo sus islas; on the Spanish
mainland en la península, en la España peninsular; (before n) mainland China (la) China continental

Lakasa Stnorden
Local time: 06:16
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Adelita Durán
26 mins
agree  Silvia Brandon-Pérez: del continente, se usa en los EEUU cuando se habla de Hawaii y de los EEUU continentales
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provenientes de tierra firme


Explanation:
¡Otra opción!

María Susana Hernández
Local time: 06:16
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
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están por llegar del continente en cualquier momento


Explanation:
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Lydia De Jorge
United States
Local time: 04:16
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 28
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