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10:11 Mar 7, 2012 |
English to Spanish translations [PRO] Social Sciences - Environment & Ecology / Sustainability | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Marta Moreno Lobera Spain Local time: 10:54 | ||||||
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sustainability personality personalidad sostenible Explanation: Even the original English term has very little support online, so in this case the lack of support for the Spanish term shouldn't really scare you away from using the correct translation, which IMHO is "personalidad sostenible". |
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sustainability personality capacidad de apoyo/soporte Explanation: mi propuesta |
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sustainability personality perfil de sostenibilidad Explanation: An alternative. It seems to me that "sustainability personality" is not the same thing as "sustainable personality", and that "personalidad sostenible" means the latter rather than the former. In other words, this expression means, so to speak, how you shape up in relation to sustainability, not whether your "personality" is sustainable. The absolutely literal version "personalidad de sostenibilidad" sounds clunky and unconvincing to me, but "perfil de sostenibilidad" is a more idiomatic way of saying the same thing (I think), and is quite commonly used in this sense in Spanish: "Perfil de sostenibilidad de Tetra Pak en el año 2000" http://www.tetrapak.com/es/SiteCollectionDocuments/Informe_S... More examples here: https://www.google.es/search?num=100&hl=es&sa=X&ei=_ThXT8DFB... |
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