May 29, 2020 09:50
3 yrs ago
30 viewers *
English term
throw at
Non-PRO
English
Other
Cinema, Film, TV, Drama
Hello:
Look, I want to apologize
for coming back to town
and throwing all this at you.
I need help with this sentence.
Thank you in advance.
Look, I want to apologize
for coming back to town
and throwing all this at you.
I need help with this sentence.
Thank you in advance.
Responses
| 4 +5 | burden |
Domenico Torre
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| 4 +3 | Present suddenly |
Suzan Hamer
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| 4 -2 | to bear or take over my own liabilities and obligations |
adel almergawy
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Responses
+5
55 mins
Domenico Torre
Works in field
Quality comes first
Native in: Italian
Works in: Arabic to Italian, English to Italian, French to Italian
Selected
burden
I think it means 'I'm sorry to burden you with my problems'.
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
-2
30 mins
adel almergawy
Egypt
Egypt
Egypt
legal translator
Native in: Arabic (Variants: Egyptian, Saudi ) 
Works in: English to Arabic, Arabic to English, Arabic, and 1 more.
to bear or take over my own liabilities and obligations
to take over what belong to me
Peer comment(s):
| neutral |
Tony M
: There's nothing that says they are "my own", and so in many circumstances this wouldn't be applicable.
55 mins
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Thanks
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| disagree |
Yvonne Gallagher
: don't know how you're coming to that conclusion
5 hrs
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Yvonne:May you tell me what would the listener bear?
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| disagree |
Lydia De Jorge
: Sorry, this makes no sense! Even in its literal translation 'throw at' would not mean 'to take over what belongs to me'.
6 hrs
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I got it
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+3
4 hrs
Suzan Hamer
Netherlands
Netherlands
Native in English
&
English
Works in field
Netherlands
Fussy editing for fussy people.
Native in: English (Variant: US)
Works in: English, Dutch to English
Present suddenly
In this context, I believe there’s a sense of unexpectedness. “I’m sorry to present all this [information] to you so suddenly and out of the blue.”
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Tony M
20 mins
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Thank you, Tony.
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| agree |
Yvonne Gallagher
: yes, it could be any sort of troubling info or stuff that needs to be done or money that needs to be found...we don't have enough context to know
32 mins
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Thank you, Yvonne.
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| agree |
Lydia De Jorge
1 hr
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Thanks you, Lydia.
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