costringere sulla difensiva

Spanish translation: obligar a ponerse a la defensiva

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Italian term or phrase:costringere sulla difensiva
Spanish translation:obligar a ponerse a la defensiva
Entered by: Victoria Romero

09:40 Jun 13, 2008
Italian to Spanish translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - History
Italian term or phrase: costringere sulla difensiva
Estoy traduciendo un texto que habla del fascismo y del nacismo (...) y no entiendo el sentido de esta expresión.

Gracias

"Da molti anni la memoria minima costringe sulla difensiva le forze democratiche, che fondano la loro forza non su mitologie, ma su relazioni sociali e umane, sul confronto e sul dibattito."
Victoria Romero
Spain
Local time: 00:16
obligar a ponerse a la defensiva
Explanation:
Creo que se refiere a ponerse a la defensiva. La traducción quedaría así: "Desde hace muchos años la memoría mínima obliga a ponerse a la defensiva a las fuerzas democráticas, las cuales basan su fuerza no en mitologías sino..."
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Laura Calvo Valdivielso
Spain
Local time: 00:16
Grading comment
Muchas gracias a todos.

Victoria
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Summary of answers provided
3 +2obligar a ponerse a la defensiva
Laura Calvo Valdivielso
4pone a la defensiva
mirta diez
3 -1Forzaba/constreñaba las fuerzad democraticas de adoptar una posicion apologética/defensiva
Gad Kohenov


  

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12 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
obligar a ponerse a la defensiva


Explanation:
Creo que se refiere a ponerse a la defensiva. La traducción quedaría así: "Desde hace muchos años la memoría mínima obliga a ponerse a la defensiva a las fuerzas democráticas, las cuales basan su fuerza no en mitologías sino..."

Laura Calvo Valdivielso
Spain
Local time: 00:16
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish, Native in CatalanCatalan
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Muchas gracias a todos.

Victoria

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Egmont
3 mins
  -> Muchas gracias

agree  María José Iglesias
23 hrs
  -> Gracias, María José
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15 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -1
Forzaba/constreñaba las fuerzad democraticas de adoptar una posicion apologética/defensiva


Explanation:
Confined the democracies to take a defensive stance. That's the English translation in my opinion.

Suerte.

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Note added at 16 mins (2008-06-13 09:56:53 GMT)
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**Fuerzas** !!

Gad Kohenov
Israel
Local time: 01:16
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench, Native in HebrewHebrew

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  María José Iglesias: Trovo la tua proposta sgrammaticata e con errori ortografici
23 hrs
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
pone a la defensiva


Explanation:
"... la memoria mínima pone a la defensiva a las fuerzas democráticas..."

La memoria mínima no como algo exterior que obliga (en mi interpretación), sino la propia memoria de las fuerzas democráticas que como mínimas se predisponen a la defensiva.
Este el matiz que justifica mi propuesta terminologica.

Buen trabajo.
Mirta Diez


mirta diez
Italy
Local time: 00:16
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
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