TRADUguide

TRADUguide - Your Guide to Translators and Translation Agencies

For translators

Find a job  |   Conges terminology center  |   Agencies list  |   Feedback forum
Register as a freelance translator or an agency  |   My profile  |   My status
Become a featured member  |   Renew your featured membership

For job posters

Post a translation job to ask for quotes
Browse the translators directory
My account / My job postings

Home   |   This is how TRADUguide works   |   Contacts / Imprint

 

TRADUguide.com auf Deutsch

Conges terminology question

<<Previous question

All questions

Next question>>

158 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:

Italian > English

Subject:

Other

Level of diffculty:

Easy / medium

Word or term in question:

faceva il rilievo della distanza al

Context:

Morduni, invece, guatava la preda e mostrava fin dall'inizio di volersi lanciare. "Ma che

Keywords:

...diavolo vorrà dal povero John," pensavo io sempre più pessimista. Guardai Dallari. Gli feci un cenno. Volevo che facesse il rilievo della distanza al maggiore Dupuis. Mi rispose con un gesto come per dire che non si poteva...A sword duel.

 

 

The answer of   See profile was rated best

(I wanted) him to survey the distance to

My comment:

fare un rilievo (topografico) = to survey the ground
The translation could also be: I wanted him to survey/calculate the distance between him (Dallari) and major Dupuis.

My references:

Ragazzini 2004 italiano-ingese (Zanichelli)