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government ambulance

Italian translation: ambulanza (di pubblica a assistenza)

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English term or phrase:government ambulance
Italian translation:ambulanza (di pubblica a assistenza)
Entered by: texjax DDS PhD

18:53 Dec 12, 2018
English to Italian translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical: Cardiology / esami del cuore, angiotac
English term or phrase: government ambulance
Perhaps the most consequential event in my life occurred fifteen
years before I was born. On a sweltering July day in India
in 1953, my paternal grandfather died suddenly. He was only
fifty-seven.
The circumstances were
unusual, and like most
family
tragedies ours has acquired a touch of myth. Everyone
agrees that in the morning on the day he died, my grandfather
was bitten by a snake coiled between sacks of grain in his little
shop in Kanpur. He did not see the type of serpent, but snakebite
is common in India, and by all accounts my grandfather
was feeling fine when he came home for lunch. My father,
who
was almost fourteen, was going
for an interview at Kanpur Agricultural
College the following day, and my grandfather had
planned to accompany him. They were
sitting on the stone floor,
inspecting my father’s
high school diploma, delighting in all
the academic honors he’d received, when, midway through the
meal, neighbors brought in the corpse of the shiny black cobra
they claimed had bitten my grandfather. (It had been killed by a
snake charmer summoned to the shop.) My grandfather took
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one look at it and went pale. “How can I survive this?” he said,
before slumping to the floor. The neighbors exhorted him to
say “Ram, Ram,” a Hindu prayer, but his last words, lying on
the floor, his eyes turning to glass, were
“I wanted to take
Prem to college.”
A government ambulance used to make rounds in the village
regularly. Around 7:00 p.m., several hours after
my grandfather’s
collapse, it was flagged down on a routine drive-by.
budu
Local time: 20:02
ambulanza (di pubblica a assistenza)
Explanation:
Chiaramente si tratta di un'ambulanza di pubblica assistenza ma dal momento che non stai traducendo un trattato sulla sanità a mio parere specificarlo appesantisce molto e va a scapito della scorrevolezza del testo. Io direi solo ambulanza in questo caso e certamente la traduzione non ne soffre, anzi.
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texjax DDS PhD
Local time: 14:02
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4ambulanza del servizio sanitario di emergenza
EleoE
4ambulanza (di pubblica a assistenza)
texjax DDS PhD


  

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40 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
ambulanza del servizio sanitario di emergenza


Explanation:
O anche ambulanza del 118.

EleoE
Local time: 11:02
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Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian, Native in Serbo-CroatSerbo-Croat
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
ambulanza (di pubblica a assistenza)


Explanation:
Chiaramente si tratta di un'ambulanza di pubblica assistenza ma dal momento che non stai traducendo un trattato sulla sanità a mio parere specificarlo appesantisce molto e va a scapito della scorrevolezza del testo. Io direi solo ambulanza in questo caso e certamente la traduzione non ne soffre, anzi.

texjax DDS PhD
Local time: 14:02
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian
PRO pts in category: 74
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