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Oct 12, 2019 12:55
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Spanish term

rastrillando

Spanish to English Science Other Traducción de una presentación en diapositivas de un caso de presunto homicidio
Circunstancias del hallazgo:
Personal policial se encontraba rastrillando el campo arado de la Finca, donde a la distancia observa dos “bultos” que pertenecían a las personas desaparecidas el día xxx.
No puedo encontrar el equivalente para "rastrillar" en este contexto, en el sentido de buscar.
Proposed translations (English)
3 +6 combing
1 +2 scouring
3 raking
Change log

Oct 12, 2019 14:36: Maria Kisic changed "Field" from "Medical" to "Science"

Discussion

Marie Wilson Oct 14, 2019:
I don't see why combing a ploughed field sounds any dafter than raking a ploughed field, which is what the source says. Unless the police are actually all out in the field with rakes, it amounts to the same. Combing is my choice, but other options work too.
Lester Tattersall Oct 14, 2019:
Like a joke @Robert
As I said, Robert, it's the wrong register for a police report and therefore sounds off. The sentence would be:
Police officers were conducting a search of the ploughed field..." ('plowed' for the US).
With "comb" it would end up as:
"Police officers were combing the ploughed field..."
That sounds almost like a joke.
In fact it reminds me of the old joke:
'A shipment of wigs was stolen yesterday from Liverpool docks. Police are combing the area. The suspects have vanished into thin hair.'
Anabell Lucero (asker) Oct 14, 2019:
The case is from Argentina and it is going to be sent to the United States
Robert Carter Oct 14, 2019:
@Lester That may be true in the UK, but this is perhaps from a Latin American country, and it doesn't mean you have to follow that policy even if you were translating it for the UK, which may not be the case. I can't think of any reason why using descriptive language would be a faux-pas, but that may be down to ignorance on my part. Can you give us a reason why you think it would be inappropriate?
Lester Tattersall Oct 13, 2019:
"Combing" is what they might use in a newspaper report, but not in an official police report - they'd use "conducting a search of" or "carrying out a search of".
Anabell Lucero (asker) Oct 12, 2019:
I thought of the word "combing" too, because in Spanish one can say: peinar la zona. It also has the sense of looking for.
Anabell Lucero (asker) Oct 12, 2019:
I'm sorry. I put "medical" because most of the text is about the autopsy and some other parts are about the crime scene. This part about "policía rastrillando" is the description of what the police had done before they found the bodies.
Maria Kisic Oct 12, 2019:
What do you want to change it to?
Marie Wilson Oct 12, 2019:
Agree with Cecilia, not medical. Somebody with editing powers can change it.
Cecilia Gowar Oct 12, 2019:
I do not think it should be posted as ¨medical¨but I do not know how to vote to change the field.
Maria Kisic Oct 12, 2019:
I meant rake not take
Maria Kisic Oct 12, 2019:
I meant rake not take
Maria Kisic Oct 12, 2019:
Hola! El campo arado me haría pensar en take... Pero en términos policiales, en cuanto a búsqueda, he visto usar la palabra "combing"

Proposed translations

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10 mins
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combing

comb verb [T] (SEARCH)
to search a place or an area very carefully in order to find something:
The police combed the whole area for evidence.
Investigators combed through the wreckage.
Example sentence:

On Monday, the police were combing the house where the murder had taken place, looking for clues

The encounter occurred when two special squads of the police were combing the dense forest

Peer comment(s):
agree Cecilia Gowar
7 mins
Thanks, Cecilia :-)
agree Robert Carter
37 mins
Thanks, Robert :-)
agree Eileen Brophy : I
1 hr
Thanks, Eileen :-)
agree franglish
2 hrs
Thanks, franglish :-)
agree MJ Barber
20 hrs
Thanks :-)
agree bigedsenior : scouring, or combing? it's a toss up!
2 days 3 hrs
Thanks! Yes, it is. Scouring is good too.
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thank you!"
+2
30 mins

scouring

scouring

fuentes:

Police searching for missing student Libby Squire, 21, scour ...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk › news › article-6674123
6 feb. 2019 - Police searching for missing student Libby Squire, 21, scour playing fields and pond near the spot she was last seen as hunt stretches into sixth ...

Missing Kayleigh: Police Search Land Near Lay-By | UK News ...
https://news.sky.com › story › missing-kayleigh-police...
18 nov. 2015 - Officers and a sniffer dog scour fields 10 miles from the girl's home after her parents make an emotional plea for her to return.

UK | Search widens for missing Sarah - BBC News
news.bbc.co.uk › uk_news
Wednesday, 5 July, 2000, 05:00 GMT 06:00 UK. Search widens for missing Sarah. Police in the fields. Police officers and volunteers have been scouring fields.

Emma Faulds police scouring remote Ayrshire wind farm in ...
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk › ... › Emma Faulds -
21 may. 2019 - Emma Faulds police scouring remote Ayrshire wind farm in search .... Workers know the area well as they've spent a lot of time out in the field.

Death Line -
https://books.google.com › books -
Maureen Carter - 2011 - ‎Fiction
Over the weekend, more than a hundred volunteers joined police officers and dog handlers in scouring fields and farmland near the family's detached home in ...

Update: Police believe missing teen has been found dead ...
https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org › news › story
3 ago. 2016 - New York State Police believe they have found the body of a ... search crews from several agencies have been scouring the fields and woods ...

Searchers continue to scour Michigan woods for missing 2 ...
https://fox17online.com › 2019/07/16 › searchers-cont...
16 jul. 2019 - (AP) — Searchers are scouring the woods in northern Michigan for a 2-year-old girl who reportedly ... State police say the child from the Monroe area in southeastern Michigan was reported ... Required fields are marked *.

scour | Definition of scour in English by Oxford Dictionaries
https://www.oxforddictionaries.com › definition › scour - Traducir esta página
'A plane has joined the search as police scour the thinly-wooded land for the gunman and ...

Scour definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
https://www.collinsdictionary.com › dictionary › scour
Scour definition: If you scour something such as a place or a book, you make a thorough search of it to try...

On the Rails: A Novel - Page 331 -
https://books.google.com › books -
John Owens - 2010 - ‎Fiction
... to scour the outbuildings and fields in the hot, prickly wind, searching for their ...
Peer comment(s):
agree Eileen Brophy
1 hr
Thanks!
agree bigedsenior : scouring, or combing? it's a toss up!
2 days 3 hrs
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6 hrs

raking

Police officers were raking the plowed field ...

Rake: (figurative) to search carefully.
Peer comment(s):
neutral Joseph Tein : Notice that the two previous answers include lots of examples of the suggested answer. Can you post any actual examples of the use of "raking" in this context?
2 hrs
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