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un esfuerzo de desvelamiento estructural

English translation: a focus on revealing underlying structures

14:36 May 14, 2010
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
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Spanish term or phrase: un esfuerzo de desvelamiento estructural
Having trouble with esfuerzo here:

REALISMO ESTRUCTURAL. El academicismo del XIX, preocupado por la formalización y la organización, se desarrollará en el XX como **un esfuerzo de desvelamiento estructural**, que convertirá la organización en tema, y la estructura en figura. Hasta convertir los medios expresivos en contenido fundamental, incluso único de la obra, en el medialismo del XXI.

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Lucy Williams
Spain
Local time: 22:13
English translation:a focus on revealing underlying structures
Explanation:
Seems to be the meaning here.

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Robert Forstag
United States
Local time: 16:13
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2 +3a focus on revealing underlying structures
Robert Forstag
2an effort to unveil structures
liz askew


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a focus on revealing underlying structures


Explanation:
Seems to be the meaning here.

Suerte.

Robert Forstag
United States
Local time: 16:13
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Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 134
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  liz askew: a focus for...I didn't read the sentence properly!!
39 mins
  -> Thank you, Liz.
agree  Karen Vincent-Jones (X): Yes, this sounds both elegant and accurate
2 hrs
  -> Thank you, Karen.
agree  George Rabel: very good
3 hrs
  -> Thanks, George.
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an effort to unveil structures


Explanation:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=an effort to unveil structu...

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Pablo Jasis and Rosario Ordonez-Jasis - Convivencia to Empowerment ...
by P Jasis - Related articles
... called "desvelamiento crítico" (critical unveiling) of reality, involving the development of individual and collective agency through their activism. ...
muse.jhu.edu/journals/high_school_journal/v088/88.2jasis.html - Similar

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or

attempt

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Master Page
We are unveiling the hidden codes and structures of matter; penetrating underneath .... A Defense of Informational Structural Realism. Synthese. Springer. ...
www.metanexus.net/conference2008/articles/Default.aspx?id..... - Cached - Similar

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Note added at 43 mins (2010-05-14 15:19:45 GMT)
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sorry
I didn't read the sentence properly,

forget about "attempt/effort"


"force" "driving force" would be more suitable here, IMHO.

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Note added at 51 mins (2010-05-14 15:27:53 GMT)
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esfuerzo s. m.
1 Empleo enérgico de la fuerza física o mental con un fin determinado: si te duele la espalda, no debes hacer esfuerzos.
2 Empleo de medios superiores a los normales para conseguir un fin determinado: a pesar de sus esfuerzos, no consiguió terminar los estudios.
3 Fuerza que actúa sobre un cuerpo y que tiende a estirarla (tracción), aplastarla (compresión), doblarla (flexión), cortarla (corte) o retorcerla (torsión).

so it could be

force

!!

liz askew
United Kingdom
Local time: 21:13
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 39

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Karen Vincent-Jones (X): It's hard to see what you're driving at here, Liz, with all these revisions! Nothing wrong with 'an attempt to..'
2 hrs
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