Reverse engineer (verb)

17:53 Jun 21, 2010 

As you can see, Wesam, you constructed your sentence in such a way that a verb will not serve your needs. What you need as a noun that will fit in the series of nouns that has replaced the original series of verbs.

The real challenge in translating this series (particularly "reverse-engineer") is how to fit the object of the original series of verbs at the end of the sentence. The object is "all or any part of the Service Technology." In the English sentence, there is no problem, because we have a series of transitive verbs followed by their object.

In Arabic, you used the equivalent of a negative gerund noun ("not to copy" became "the non-copying of"). That is not incorrect, but you have somehow introduced other objects in the middle of the series, which are not really the stated object.

You need to re-write this sentence so that the object is stated at the outset, immediately after the first verb (or gerund, in your case), and then follow with the remaining series of verbs. That will not only help you avoid confusing the reader about the object, but will also be much closer to standard Arabic style.

17:01 Jun 21, 2010 

This is my translation of the whole para:

تقر الشركة بأن تكنولوجيا الخدمة تحتوي على معلومات تجارية سرية تابعة للهيئة ومورديها وتوافق على عدم نسخ أو الاطلاع أو التشغيل أو التنفيذ أو العرض أو التفكيك أو تفكيك المعلومات أو تنفيذ الهندسة العكسية أو توزيع أو إعادة ترخيص أو بيع أو تخصيص أو نقل جميع أو أي جزء من تكنولوجيا الخدمة.

16:21 Jun 21, 2010 

In the English sentence, the word appears as a verb. In your translation of this sentence, does the series of verbs (copy, access, perform, etc.) remain as verbs? What is your translation of the portion of the sentence from "agrees not to copy"? Does the word copy remain as a verb in your translation. How did you translate this part?

16:16 Jun 21, 2010 

That makes much more sense, and will, hopefully, give answerers the opportunity to provide you with the answer you are looking for.

It does not cost anything to post proper context, but it makes a big difference in the quality of the answers you receive.

15:40 Jun 21, 2010 

Company acknowledges that the Service Technology contains trade secret information belonging to the entity and its suppliers, and agrees not to copy, access, run, perform, display, disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer, distribute, sublicense, sell, assign or otherwise transfer all or any part of the Service Technology.

Thanks for your interest.

15:38 Jun 21, 2010 

Please provide the sentence where you found this term. Thank you.