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demostrando siempre

English translation: displaying at all times (the most exemplary conduct and ...)

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Spanish term or phrase:demostrando siempre
English translation:displaying at all times (the most exemplary conduct and ...)
Entered by: Ana Brassara

20:37 Jan 24, 2007
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
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Spanish term or phrase: demostrando siempre
Sobre una abogada:

....trabajó como abogada asociada en XX, demostrando siempre una conducta ejemplar, así como dinamismo...

Quisiera usar una frase en inglés que no sea gerundio.
Gracias.
Ana Brassara
Local time: 16:42
displaying at all times (the most exemplary conduct and ...)
Explanation:
It will sound a bit awkward in English if you try to avoid the natural grammatical structure.

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Note added at 56 mins (2007-01-24 21:33:25 GMT)
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Actually, this is not a gerund in English but rather a present participle.
Selected response from:

Refugio
Local time: 12:42
Grading comment
Gracias.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +6displaying at all times (the most exemplary conduct and ...)
Refugio
4 +2was always of exemplary conduct/whose conduct was always exemplary
AllegroTrans
4 +2where she always showed an outstanding/exemplary conduct
Mauricio Coitiño
4...with an all times exemplary attitude,
Ernesto Alcala Jimenez
4always demonstrating an exemplary...
Lucía Rodriguez Ilaria


  

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
was always of exemplary conduct/whose conduct was always exemplary


Explanation:
depending on how you translate the phrases before and after....

AllegroTrans
United Kingdom
Local time: 20:42
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 52

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Lydia De Jorge
14 mins
agree  Gacela20
3 hrs
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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
where she always showed an outstanding/exemplary conduct


Explanation:
Una sugerencia

Mauricio Coitiño
Uruguay
Local time: 16:42
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Carol Gullidge: no "an": where she always displayed exemplary conduct. [this gets round the gerund problem - if it has to be got round!]
20 mins
  -> Thanks Carol.
agree  Carla_am
8 hrs
  -> Thanks.
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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +6
displaying at all times (the most exemplary conduct and ...)


Explanation:
It will sound a bit awkward in English if you try to avoid the natural grammatical structure.

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Note added at 56 mins (2007-01-24 21:33:25 GMT)
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Actually, this is not a gerund in English but rather a present participle.

Refugio
Local time: 12:42
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 64
Grading comment
Gracias.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  eesegura: I think that this sounds the most natural.
10 mins
  -> Thank you, ees
agree  Carol Gullidge: the most natural in English - nothing wrong with a little gerund... or present participle!
16 mins
  -> Thanks, Carol, but see my note above.
agree  patricia scott: This is it - at all times is absolutely perfect.
39 mins
  -> Thanks, Patricia
agree  Maria Agustini
1 hr
  -> Gracias, Maria
agree  Nivia Martínez
3 hrs
  -> Gracias, Nivia
agree  JEvicente
15 hrs
  -> Gracias, JEV
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59 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
...with an all times exemplary attitude,


Explanation:
Creo que esta sería una buena manera de evitar el gerundio manteniendo una extructura gramatical coherente.

Ernesto Alcala Jimenez
Australia
Local time: 05:42
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish, Native in CatalanCatalan
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16 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
always demonstrating an exemplary...


Explanation:
Todo depende de la traduccion anterior de la frase.

Lucía Rodriguez Ilaria
Brazil
Local time: 16:42
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
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