by color or aid
Spanish translation: mediante engaño o basándose en un engaño
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|  Selected response from: Susana E. Cano Méndez Spain Local time: 03:57 | ||||
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| by color or aid of any false pretense, representation (...) bajo pretensión o concurso de cualquier falso pretexto, representación (...) Explanation: Otra posibilidad. Color MW: an outward often deceptive show. Appearance. Also, a pretense offered as justification. Pretext. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/color Pretensión, aspecto, pretexto En cuanto a aid, además de la natural "ayuda", concurso (en tanto que participación, colaboracion) parece ajustarse bien al contexto. |
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peer agreement (net): +1por medio de la distorsión o la ayuda de Explanation: cualquier pretensión falsa... Sería una de las posibles opciones, basándonos en la definición 3 que da el Oxford: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/colour 3 with object Influence, especially in a negative way; distort. ‘the experiences had coloured her whole existence’ More example sentencesSynonyms influence, affect, slant, taint, pervert, warp, twist, skew, distort, bias, prejudice, poison 3.1 Misrepresent by distortion or exaggeration. ‘witnesses might colour evidence to make a story saleable’ More example sentences ‘The debate has often been coloured by misinformation and manipulation, and it is not easy for a political party in Government to deal with those matters.’ ‘His counsel has submitted that her evidence cannot be relied upon and that it has been coloured by the knowledge that a criminal charge is hanging over her for assisting an offender.’ ‘Definitions of words like pension, oats, politics, Whig and Tory were coloured by personal prejudice.’ ‘The account may well be colored by her desire to go to America.’ ‘Soon, the emotions begin to color and crowd out the actual facts of the situation.’ Synonyms exaggerate, overstate, overdraw, overdo, embroider, embellish, dramatize, enhance, varnish Saludos cordiales. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2 hrs (2018-01-13 02:04:55 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Siguiendo lo que indica Robert: ... por medio de dolo o al secundar cualquier pretensión falsa... http://dle.rae.es/?id=E5XmK1L http://dle.rae.es/?id=XQFzn71 |
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| by color or aid of any false pretense mediante engaño o basándose en un engaño Explanation: He encontrado esto: «4) "By color or aid of deception" means the deception operated to bring about the obtaining of the property or services; it is not necessary that deception be the sole means of obtaining the property or services.» Yo lo traduciría como «mediante engaño o basándose en un engaño» Feliz día. https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=9A.56.010 |
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