Nov 25, 2007 18:49
16 yrs ago
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Spanish term

por simpatía, haciendo lo propio

Spanish to English Tech/Engineering Energy / Power Generation
En un principio, los indicios apuntaban claramente a un sobrecalentamiento de uno de los cables que entraba en el cuadro de distribución eléctrica, deteriorando el aislante y, por simpatía, haciendo lo propio en un cable aledaño, provocando un cortocircuito al comunicarse dos fases.
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Nov 25, 2007 18:50: Laura Gómez changed "Language pair" from "Spanish to English" to "English to Spanish"

Nov 25, 2007 18:51: Laura Gómez changed "Language pair" from "English to Spanish" to "Spanish to English"

Discussion

Henry Hinds Nov 25, 2007:
That's what you need to look at; all that happened here was that one wire overheated, burned off the insulation and also caused the insulation to burn off a wire next to it.
Chiwi (asker) Nov 25, 2007:
The problem with 'simpatía' is that in this context it's related to a fire and I've seen in the glossary that it's used with explosions (detonation, delayed, etc.) and that just didn't fit here. I had a feeling it was simply 'thus' or 'consequently' but I needed to check. Thanks.

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consequently, doing the same (damage)

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as a cosequence, causing the same effect/doing the same

Lo de la simpatía no me encaja, pero creo que eso es lo que quiere decir.
:)

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Note added at 3 minutos (2007-11-25 18:52:29 GMT)
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perdón, "as a consequence"
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thus doing the same

y, por simpatía, haciendo lo propio en un cable aledaño = and thus doing the same to a nearby wire

Es mejor la sencillez.
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