oversæt til engelsk

Jeg kan godt kigge på det, men først vil jeg lige spørge hvad udsyltning er? Det findes ik i de tre ordbøger jeg har kigget i :)

Spørgsmål må kun oprettes, luk dette

http://www.eksperten.dk/spm/468303

The (civil) population had properly been less confident, had they known the condition of the armed forces. After many years of economical deprivation and the catastrophic defeat for the British Expeditionary Force in France, the army was in dire straits. The nominal strength of an infantry division was 13.600 men, but in the summer of 1940 the British divisions were less then half their nominal strength. A desperate lag of guns and equipment (ordnance) existed. In the course of the summer arms production had been raised and the forces had been improved

bufferzone >> pænt oversat - men hvis jeg må, ville jeg lige knytte et par kommentarer...

deprevation, ikke deprivation (du har kun "i" i ordet deprive - i dets andre former er det "e")

Husk flertals-"S" : dvs. "British Expeditionary Forces", ikke "British Expeditionary Force"

Jeg ville personligt flytte "in France" op _før_ BEF, men det er en smagssag.. dvs
  "...and the catastrophic defeat in France for the British Expeditionary Forces, the army was in dire straits..."

I stedet for at nævne "the nominal strength" 2 gange, så er det mere elegant at henvise til temaet i hovedsætningen fra bisætningen ... (derudover også rettet "then" til "than"... ;-)

Dvs at sætningen :
  "The nominal strength of an infantry division was 13.600 men, but in the summer of 1940 the British divisions were less then half their nominal strength."

kommer til at se således ud
  "The nominal strength of an infantry division was 13.600 men, but in the summer of 1940 the British divisions were less than half that size."

Derudover så er det lack - og ikke lag - som der skal stå ved "mangel"  (lag == forsiknelse, lack == mangel)..
Derfor kommer næste sætning til at være
  A desperate lack of guns and equipment existed

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For en fuld opsummering :

The civil population had properly been less confident, had they known the condition of the armed forces. After many years of economical deprevation and the catastrophic defeat in France for the British Expeditionary Forces, the army was in dire straits. The nominal strength of an infantry division was 13.600 men, but in the summer of 1940 the British divisions were less then half that size. A desperate lack of guns and equipment existed. In the course of the summer arms production had been raised and the forces had been improved.

/Søren

pis ... glemte at ændre "then" til "that" i min opsummering.... Sådan ske det altid :-))

men som ducks siger ... Husk at lukke det andet spørgsmål (http://exp.dk/spm/468303), da du ikke må have to ens spørgsmål kørende

/bearhugx, coadmin

bearhugx>Jep, bedre på den måde