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Over the last few decades the exchange of goods and services between the industrialised countries and China has increased rapidly. It has become one of the main sources of growth both in Europe and the US. As a consequence, intellectual property (IP) rights have inevitably become crucial for free and undistorted trade. The creation and protection of patents, trade marks and industrial designs is now one of the main areas both of consultation and cross-border litigation and arbitration. In order to help practitioners and their staff to understand and use English and Chinese IP terms correctly, this dictionary provides a glossary of about 2400 terms giving the meaning in English and Chinese both in Chinese characters and Pinyin transcription. A detailed introduction facilitates search by radicals. An annex shows in bilingual form the most relevant forms, cover sheets, statutes etc.

Porto Velho is another of Brazil's "last frontiers," a place where the adventurous or unemployed have gone to find fortune or flee misery. Given any community's natural tendency to reshape the meaning of words to fit local context or invent new words for new things (Brazil has at least 6 words for speed hump), as well as Brazil's common tendency to various types of linguistic imprecision, bringing them all together in a city essentially founded by Americans, with workers from various parts of the world, and encountering dozens of local tribes, confusion was almost inevitable.. Being a translator/interpreter makes me (Simon) a bit more anal about words than Beto who is more into the real world. Many a time I commented "but this actually means X ," to which he replied: "Yes, interesting isn't it "
All of Simon's earnings go towards funding www.antoninomuseum.com

Esta es una edicion revisada y actualizada. El presente diccionario ruso-espanol de terminologia militar consta de mas de 15.000 terminos y pretende facilitar la traduccion al idioma espanol de temas militares rusos. Va dirigido fundamentalmente a los estudiosos de habla espanola interesados en la tematica militar rusa. Ello se ha tenido en cuenta a la hora de su confeccion y se ha materializado en su presentacion. En su preparacion se ha considerado la dificultad que supone establecer en sus justos limites la terminologia especifica de una rama del saber determinada. En efecto, son muchos los terminos especificamente militares que han trascendido a otras ramas del saber y que incluso se han consolidado en el lenguaje de uso general. Del mismo modo, numerosos terminos procedentes del lenguaje general, o de otras ramas del saber, han penetrado, con su propio significado o con una acepcion especifica o adaptada, en el vocabulario militar. Tambien se ha incluido la terminologia obsoleta o actualmente en desuso. Aunque muchos terminos anticuados apenas tienen cabida en el lenguaje militar actual, aparecen con frecuencia en textos antiguos o historicos, e incluso, a veces, se han visto rescatados con un significado mas o menos aproximado al inicial. En cuanto a la terminologia estrictamente tecnica de doble uso militar y civil, se ha eludido en lo posible porque, al ser de uso generalizado, tiene, casi siempre, el mismo significado en el ambito militar que en su aplicacion civil (mecanica, topografia, equipamiento, navegacion, etc.). Tambien se han evitado los terminos compuestos cuando resulta sencilla su interpretacion. Por lo ya dicho nos parece que el titulo "Diccionario Militar Ruso-Espanol" no expresa, en rigor, su contenido. Quiza hubiera sido mas adecuada la denominacion de "Diccionario Militar Ruso-Espanol y de terminologia de frecuente uso militar," pero la longitud del titulo y su falta de precision nos ha hecho eludirlo. En cuanto a la conveniencia de un diccionario de estas caracteristicas se ha visto que son muy pocos y anticuados, y en su mayoria agotados, los existentes. Y ello a pesar de que la terminologia militar aparece no solo en los textos militares sino en casi la totalidad de la literatura civil rusa, debido quiza a que ejercito y sociedad constituyen un todo indivisible en esta cultura. Dificilmente encontraremos un texto literario que no incluya terminologia militar, bien en pasajes de caracter militar, bien por la impregnacion que de la terminologia militar gozan otras ramas del saber. Ello justifica la inclusion en nuestra obra de terminos que, sin cabida en el saber militar actual, aparecen en muchas obras literarias.

This is a dictionary of Bole, a little documented language of the Chadic family, spoken in northeastern Nigeria. This is one of the most comprehensive dictionaries of any Chadic language other than Hausa. All entries for Bole are fully marked for tone and vowel length. The Bole-English-Hausa section has full definitions and explanations of meaning in English with numerous examples of use. Each entry has a Hausa gloss. The English-Bole section is intended mainly as an index to the Bole-English-Hausa section. There are appendices of flora and fauna terms, cultural terms, pronouns, and comprehensive paradigms of verb forms.