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Dommedags-oversættelse

30. oktober 2003 af Ktulu (Slettet)
Hej, jeg har en dansk avisartikel, som skal oversættes til engelsk. Jeg ville blive meget glad, hvis i lige ville kigge den igennem...?


DEN DANSKE TEKST:

Dommedag blev i går aflyst. I hvert fald foreløbig, for asteroideeksperterne kan ikke forudsige præcist, hvornår vi næste gang risikerer at få en af rummets byggesten i hovedet.

Danskerne kan sammen med resten af verden ånde lettet op.
Der er alligevel ikke risiko for, at en stor del af jordens befolkning bliver udslettet 21. marts 20014.
Det var ellers den dystre melding, som et hold britiske forskere kom med sent tirsdag. De advarede om, at en asteroide havde kurs mod jorden, og sandsynligheden for, at den ville ramme, var 1/909.000. Men i løbet af natten til i går blev der lavet nye beregninger af asteroidens bane, og nu er forskere nået frem til, at den med stor sandsynlighed ikke vil ramme Jorden alligevel.
Asteroideforsker på Tycho Brahe Planetariet i København, Michael Linden-Vørnle kalder det >>tåbeligt
>>Det har måske drejet sig om at få politikernes opmærksomhed, så de britiske forskere kunne få nogle flere bevillinger, men nu har jeg måttet forklare opskræmte mennesker, at de ikke skal være bange
Alarmen er altså afblæst - sådan da.


OVERSÆTTELSEN:

Judgment Day was cancelled yesterday. At least for the present, because the asteroid experts cannot predict precisely, when we next time risk being hit in the head by one of the building blocks of space.

The Danes are, together with the rest of the earthlings, able to breathe a sigh of relief.
There is no risk, after all, that a large part of the population of the earth will be wiped out on March the 21st, 2014.
This sombre report was actually what a team of British scientists presented late Tuesday. They warned that an asteroid was heading for the earth, and the probability of it hitting the earth was 1/909.000. But during the night before last, new calculations of the course of the asteroid, were made and now the scientist have come to the decision that it most probably will not hit the earth after all.
Michael Linden-Vørnle, asteroid scientist at Tycho Brahe Planetarium in Copenhagen, regards it as “foolish” to raise the alarm.
“This has probably been about attracting the attention of the politicians, so the British scientists could have more grant, but now I have had to explain scared people that they have no reason to be afraid.” He says.
Therefore the alarm is cancelled – more or less.


Jeg er blandt andet i tvivl om 'earth' skal være med stort...


På forhånd - mange tak for hjælpen!

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Svar #1
30. oktober 2003 af SP anonym (Slettet)

aldrig komma foran that... FY

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Svar #2
30. oktober 2003 af Jean

Tror ikke earth skal være med stort... Hvorfor: aner det ikke.

Den her sætning lyder lidt klodset:

"when we next time risk being hit in the head by one of the building blocks of space."

Desuden tror jeg det hedder "the space".


Svar #3
30. oktober 2003 af Ktulu (Slettet)

anonym>> I know, sorry (-:

andet?

Svar #4
30. oktober 2003 af Ktulu (Slettet)

Jean>>>
ja den er svær at oversætte, har du nogle andre forslag? - du kan jo se den danske udgave øverst...

Svar #5
30. oktober 2003 af Ktulu (Slettet)

Er der ingen andre, der kan finde nogle fejl eller uheldige formuleringer...?

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Svar #6
31. oktober 2003 af SP anonym (Slettet)

Kan ikke finde så mange fejl, dog er der et par kommafejl og en enkelt fejl i tal og husk at i tal at man ikke bruger . men , (909,000):


Judgment Day was cancelled yesterday. At least for the present, because the asteroid experts cannot predict precisely when we next time risk being hit in the head by one of the building blocks of space.

The Danes are, together with the rest of the earthlings, able to breathe a sigh of relief.
There is no risk, after all that a large part of the population of the earth will be wiped out on March the 21st, 2014.
This sombre report was actually what a team of British scientists presented late Tuesday. They warned that an asteroid was heading for the earth and the probability of it hitting the earth was 1/909,000. But during the night before last, new calculations of the course of the asteroid, were made and now the scientist have come to the decision that it most probably will not hit the earth after all.
Michael Linden-Vørnle, asteroid scientist at Tycho Brahe

Planetarium in Copenhagen regards it as “foolish” to raise the alarm.
“This has probably been about attracting the attention of the politicians so the British scientists could have more grants but now I have had to explain scared people that they have no reason to be afraid.” He says.
Therefore the alarm is cancelled – more or less.

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Svar #7
31. oktober 2003 af SP anonym (Slettet)

Sorry, kom til at fjerne et komma for meget:

Planetarium in Copenhagen, regards it as “foolish” to raise the alarm.

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