Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
una vuelta que viene rotando
English translation:
something thas has been going on/rolling for a long time
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marideoba
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Spanish term
Timely, personal, professional service
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Works in: Spanish to English
una vuelta que viene rotando
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Colombian slang
Not much context.
Translating a transcript of a phone call. I suspect there may be errors in the source text.
A mí me da mucha pena V_____, pero ni modo que yo soy responsable de nada quería porque que eso es ***una vuelta que viene rotando hace rato.*** I think maybe "quería" should have been "querida," but I'm not making sense out of the rest.
Translating a transcript of a phone call. I suspect there may be errors in the source text.
A mí me da mucha pena V_____, pero ni modo que yo soy responsable de nada quería porque que eso es ***una vuelta que viene rotando hace rato.*** I think maybe "quería" should have been "querida," but I'm not making sense out of the rest.
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marideoba
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something thas has been going on/rolling for a long time
Mi aporte. ¡Espero le sirva!
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Comment: "many thanks"
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Rebecca Breekveldt
Austria
Austria
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English
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Austria
Helping to communicate across cultures
Native in: English , Spanish
Works in: French to Spanish, English to Spanish, Spanish to English, and 3 more.
sthing waiting to happen/coming to them
It isn't an expression I have heard before, but from the sentence I interpret something along the lines of:
- 'I'm not responsible for anything because that is something waiting to happen...'
- 'I'm not responsible for anything because V___ has had it coming...'
- I'm not taking responsibility for anything because V has always been like that.
sorry, harder to be more precise without more context, but I think it is something to do with the fact that V's actions have been like that for a while, or it is not the first time, so the speaker sees no need to take responsibility.
Hope it helps!
- 'I'm not responsible for anything because that is something waiting to happen...'
- 'I'm not responsible for anything because V___ has had it coming...'
- I'm not taking responsibility for anything because V has always been like that.
sorry, harder to be more precise without more context, but I think it is something to do with the fact that V's actions have been like that for a while, or it is not the first time, so the speaker sees no need to take responsibility.
Hope it helps!
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Giovanni Rengifo
Colombia
Colombia
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Colombia
Traductores Oficiales Cali
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a gig that has been going around [for a long while now]
I think "gig" is a good word for "vuelta", especially if the source text is about drug dealing or similar illegal activities. "rotar" probably means, it wasn't a very appealing job, so nobody was wiling to do it. In any case, IMO using "something" to translate "vuelta" would be too general.
I hope this will be useful.
I hope this will be useful.
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Helena Chavarria
Spain
Spain
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Spain
Striving for excellence
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My interpretation is similar to the end of Rebecca's answer so I won't post my suggestion.
“This didn’t happen by chance. This didn’t happen overnight,” Kimmel says. “This has been simmering for a long time.”
https://www.citynews1130.com/2018/03/14/academic-efforts-to-...
This has been simmering for a long time. It is now at the boiling point. It appears that there are people in the California Senate who plan to mount an effort to push it through.
http://www.quotehd.com/quotes/rita-marker-quote-this-has-bee...
There are proably better ways of expressing it but I understand it to mean that the person has nothing to do with what's happened because the wheel started turning a long time ago.
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Sorry, I forgot to mention that I was going to suggest ''this has been simmering for a long time'.
“This didn’t happen by chance. This didn’t happen overnight,” Kimmel says. “This has been simmering for a long time.”
https://www.citynews1130.com/2018/03/14/academic-efforts-to-...
This has been simmering for a long time. It is now at the boiling point. It appears that there are people in the California Senate who plan to mount an effort to push it through.
http://www.quotehd.com/quotes/rita-marker-quote-this-has-bee...
There are proably better ways of expressing it but I understand it to mean that the person has nothing to do with what's happened because the wheel started turning a long time ago.
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Note added at 2 hrs (2019-10-15 13:35:56 GMT)
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Sorry, I forgot to mention that I was going to suggest ''this has been simmering for a long time'.
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Robert Carter
: Yes, not too far off what I was thinking: "it's been bubbling under for a while now", although I have to say I haven't heard this phrase before.
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Although this is the first time I've heard this phrase, I understand that whatever it is (a thing, not a person) has been going on for a while but right now I can't think of how I would say it. Thank you, Robert :-)
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