This site uses cookies. Some of these cookies are essential to the operation of the site, while others help to improve your experience by providing insights into how the site is being used. For more information, please see the ProZ.com privacy policy.
Cookie settings
limitante de actuación
PMO positiva
Apr 11 17:57
1 mo ago
19 viewers *
Spanish term

abono copiado

Spanish to English Art/Literary Idioms / Maxims / Sayings
This is a statement from an artist from the Colombian Amazon.

La comida y las plantas de la ciudad no se parecen a las de la selva, no son lo mismo, pero pueden alimentar. Si el abono es copiado y tiene químico le va a hacer mal. Por más que se intente, las cosas no se pueden copiar. Si uno copia las cosas, sea las plantas o los dibujos, pues le van a salir peor. Pero si se intenta tener respeto y se deja crecer el cambio de las cosas pues le va a salir bien.

It is clearly connected to his larger idea of copying, but I am not sure exactly what he is getting at
Thanks
Proposed translations (English)
4 +1 synthetic fertilizer
3 +2 artificial fertiliser
2 fabricated manure

Discussion

Lisa Rosengard Apr 12:
It's about the use of replicated or duplicated fertiliser in agriculture. The author is against the action of copying or replicating an original product or piece of work, since the duplication reduces the quality of the product. Instead he recommends the original product to be respected without duplication.

Proposed translations

+1
8 hrs
Selected

synthetic fertilizer

If you search for the frequency with which "artificial" and "synthetic" collocate with "fertilizer," the latter occurs more often. However, it is also common to see the modifiers "artificial" and "synthetic" used as synonyms in the same text. In the source text, the noun phrase could be transformed as follows: "If the fertilizer is synthesized and contains chemicals, it will be harmful."
Reference:

https://www.milorganite.com/lawn-care/organic-lawn-care/organic-vs-synthetic

https://geopard.tech/blog/what-is-the-difference-between-organic-and-synthetic-fertilizers/

Peer comment(s):
neutral philgoddard : I'm glad you agree they're synonyms.
2 hrs
agree Yvonne Gallagher : yep, FAR more common in this context
8 hrs
Something went wrong...
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "thanks"
+2
58 mins

artificial fertiliser

I think this is the meaning - you can't copy nature.
Peer comment(s):
agree Andrew Bramhall : Exactly, organic is the drift;
2 hrs
agree neilmac
12 hrs
neutral Adrian MM. : nature *can* be copied - it's called cloning. Check out Dolly the Sheep.
18 hrs
I have, but she's not my type.
Something went wrong...
20 hrs

fabricated manure

More like manure being 'mimicked' or *cloned*, with the idea followed up: ....las cosas no se pueden copiar... things or ideas cannot simply be fabricated (plagiaris/zed).
Example sentence:

IATE: en farmyard manure COM farm manure COM farm yard manure COM livestock manure COM es estiércol de establo COM estiércol de granja COM abono de granja

Cloning is the process of generating a genetically identical copy of a cell or an organism. Cloning happens all the time in nature.

Reference:

http://www.proz.com/kudoz/spanish-to-english/other/2895118-abono.html

http://www.fertilizer.org/about-fertilizers/how-are-fertilizers-made/

Something went wrong...
Close search
Term search
  • All of ProZ.com
  • Term search
  • Jobs
  • Forums
  • Multiple search