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不可逾越性

English translation: insurmountability

05:28 May 23, 2007
Chinese to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - IT (Information Technology)
Chinese term or phrase: 不可逾越性
实现路径的不可逾越性
billychang
Local time: 09:05
English translation:insurmountability
Explanation:
[some barrier] that renders the path insurmountable

E.g., the energy barrier between two stable states render the cross-over pathway insurmountable so that each state is truly stable.

IEER | Insurmountable Risks - Summary
Summary Insurmountable Risks: The Dangers of Using Nuclear Power to Combat Global Climate Change Brice Smith A Report by the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research

www.ieer.org/reports/insurmountablerisks/summary.pdf · Cached page · PDF file
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franksf
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Summary of answers provided
4 +4impassability
tulip855
4 +2insurmountableness; insuperableness
C2Expert
4 +2实现路径 = implementation path
C2Expert
3 +2insurmountability
franksf
4insurmountably secure against imitation
C2Expert
3inevitability/incircumventability of implementation path
Huijun Suo
3indispensibility
Anthony Sariti


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48 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
insurmountableness; insuperableness


Explanation:

Note that there is a difference in meaning between insurmountability and insurmountableness, the latter being more correct for your purpose, from the etymological perspective and the literal meaning of the Chinese form
See:
http://www.answers.com/topic/insurmountableness

The same for insuperability and insuperableness.
http://www.answers.com/insuperable




    Reference: http://www.answers.com/topic/insurmountableness
C2Expert
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agree  Yi Yuan (X)
9 hrs
agree  IC --
1 day 1 hr
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48 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
impassability


Explanation:
or make the path impassable

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Note added at 52 mins (2007-05-23 06:21:06 GMT)
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According to the description you gave here, I guess it should be used for IT technology, in this way, impassability or impassable is more likely than insurmountableness; insuperableness , since these two words are used to describe 不可克服的, 难以逾越的
insurmountable difficulty 不可克服的困难.
Just for your reference. Good luck!

tulip855
Local time: 22:05
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Native speaker of: Native in ChineseChinese

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jason Ma: Try: impassablility of execution route.
7 mins
  -> Thank you, Martin Jones!
agree  Shirley Lao
33 mins
  -> Thank you, Shirley Lao!
agree  Shang
35 mins
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agree  IC --
1 day 1 hr
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52 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
insurmountability


Explanation:
[some barrier] that renders the path insurmountable

E.g., the energy barrier between two stable states render the cross-over pathway insurmountable so that each state is truly stable.

IEER | Insurmountable Risks - Summary
Summary Insurmountable Risks: The Dangers of Using Nuclear Power to Combat Global Climate Change Brice Smith A Report by the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research

www.ieer.org/reports/insurmountablerisks/summary.pdf · Cached page · PDF file


franksf
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agree  Yi Yuan (X)
9 hrs
  -> Thank you, Yi.
agree  IC --
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  -> Thank you, IC.
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
inevitability/incircumventability of implementation path


Explanation:
Just another possibility.

Huijun Suo
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54 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
实现路径 = implementation path


Explanation:

Sorry, did not notice the sentence in which the term was used.

If so, the -ness and -bility forms are equally acceptable, the latter being more commonly familiar to readers.

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Note added at 1 hr (2007-05-23 07:11:06 GMT)
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Where applied to IT implementation, and using "path" to describe the process, then it is no longer a question of "passability" or even surmountability, but of "FEASIBILITY".

So, re-translated, it becomes: "The INFEASIBILITY of implementation [path]." The word 'path' can be omitted, without affecting the meaning of the message intended.

http://www.answers.com/infeasible

C2Expert
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Malcolm Mayfield: sounds likely: "the infeasibility of a/this/(etc., depending) implementation approach"
23 hrs
agree  IC --
1 day 58 mins
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1 day 16 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
不可逾越性(不容易被他人模仿)
insurmountably secure against imitation


Explanation:
billychang (asker): 我看這裡是說-实现路径(名词)並不容易被他人模仿(因為它是不可逾越的。

If so, and in the context given above, something along the line of:
"The implementation path is insurmountably secure against imitation [or duplication] [or reverse engineering]."


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Note added at 1 day16 hrs (2007-05-24 21:55:40 GMT)
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To do a good, even merely correct, job of translation, it is clear that the context, preferably the intent as well, of the item to be translated must be made very clear.

One can simply assume the most likely context, but that may not be the correct context, as the above illustrates.

To help translators do a better job, it is important that as much contextual details and purposes relating to said context be given.

Otherwise, not only the translation effort may go in the wrong direction, but also the meaning and result may be quite different from what what were originally intended.



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1 day 18 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
indispensibility


Explanation:
Without further context for the question at hand, "indispensible" for 不可逾越 is the idiomatic way this would be said for the following: 我国经济发展不可逾越的阶段. 逾越 has the sense of "getting over" or "spanning" in many contexts. Although there are many words that express the idea, the noun form for many of them is not idiomatic or normal usage. In above context, "insurmountable" would not be right at all. A "stage" cannot normally be insurmountable." Again, wider context will determine the correction translation.

Anthony Sariti
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Local time: 10:05
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