Nov 27, 2022 23:14
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Spanish term

cada uno a sus cosas y trabajos

Spanish to English Art/Literary Poetry & Literature Cuento corto
Buenas tardes,

Me podrían ayudar, por favor, a buscar una forma natural de expresar: "cada uno a sus cosas y trabajos"?

Oración: Al final, cuando todos los participantes de la conferecia se estaban yendo, cada uno a sus cosas y trabajos. Entonces, nos nos despedimos.

Contexto: esta oración se encuentra en un cuento que habla sobre viejos compañeros de la universidad que se encontraron en una conferencia.

Muchas gracias
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Discussion

Tomasso Nov 28, 2022:
problemas personales surgencia, volver a sus cosas....going back to their jobs and daily problems....
or even, going back to fighting their hangups, demons. Como dice Mafalda ..Cada uno tiene sus cosas, cositas.......

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everyone doing their own thing

I understand that "everyone", a traditionally singular pronoun, is used here with the plural possessive "their", but this is common practice in colloquial English and it goes well as an idiom similar in register to "cada uno a sus cosas y trabajos".

Definition of "doing (your/his/her/their) own thing": To do what one is interested in or skilled at, rather than simply doing what everyone else does.
Example sentence:

To do what one is interested in or skilled at, rather than simply doing what everyone else does.

You don't have to go to med school just because your sister did—you need to do your own thing.

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stuff and jobs

¿con esa puntuación...? vaya, vaya, cómo se escribe de bien... jeje

"stuff and jobs"

Seriously, I absolutely love what they do, and they work hard at it on top of their everyday life stuff and jobs.

Involuntary Unemployment Is Realhttps://slate.com › business › 2013/04
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24 abr 2013 — People start hustling to set up factories to make the stuff and jobs are created all up and down the skill spectrum—from marketing ...

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31 oct 2022 — Asking us to do many stuff and jobs but pay less than expected. After working hours 5) High pressure and very high expectations given by the ...


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I was doing a lot of stuff and jobs that wasn't worth my time, things that really didn't help me significantly. I'm sure I'll drop those habits and do ...

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que ya me van a decir que no es la respuesta completa así que hilvano el párrafo con un puntuación mas legible o natural.
At the end, when all the participants of the conference were leaving, everyone/everybody went to their stuff and jobs and then we said goodbye/bid farewell to each other .
Peer comment(s):

neutral Andrew Bramhall : "Jobs and stuff", the other way round!!///correcto!
23 mins
¿te refieres a que un orden más normal sería ese?//¿y seguir el del texto fuente sería tan impropio como para no funcionar? hay buenas coincidencias...
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43 mins

each of them to their own thing

😊
Peer comment(s):

agree Simone Taylor
5 hrs
Thank you, Simone!
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4 hrs

everyone went back to work and their own things

Creo que así quizás sea un poco más natural.
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9 hrs

Each of them back to their own devices

in the metaphorical sense of the expression
Peer comment(s):

agree Simone Taylor : It actually works metaphorically and literally in this case :D
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Yep, thanks;
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back to their own lives

"... se estaban yendo, cada uno a sus cosas y trabajos..."
"... were all leaving, back to their own lives..."

You can make it flow better by omitting "cada uno" ("each of them"). I do not think this is needed, as "their own" already expresses the idea that everyone will have their own life.
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each to their own life

Estoy de acuerdo en que suena redundante decir "of them" porque ya sabemos que son ellos, "los participantes".

Además, la traducción al inglés me recuerda a la frase "each to his/their own" (Para gustos, los colores), y creo que suena más natural en singular en inglés. La oración original en sí es rara. Creo que falta una cláusula, otra acción?

¡Espero que sea útil!
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1 day 3 hrs

everybody back to their own business

"everybody"+ "own" could be a smoother alternative to "each one".

"business" (in its meaning of affair/matter, activities, function/role) is ample enough to encompass both "cosas y trabajos".
Peer comment(s):

agree Toni Castano : "Business" is what I prefer here.
1 day 8 hrs
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