Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Swedish term or phrase:
flerårsreglera
English translation:
roughly: manage over several years
Added to glossary by
Helen Johnson
May 13, 2007 17:50
17 yrs ago
Swedish term
United Kingdom
Taught MA translation at Uni of Surrey
Native in: English 
Works in: Swedish to English, Danish to English, Norwegian to English
flerårsreglera
Swedish to English
Tech/Engineering
Environment & Ecology
water for electricity production
Water housekeeping where you have wet, normal and dry years, and water is stored in order to be used to produce enough electricity.
Does anyone know how to express this in English, please? I imagine it means save enough water to cover several years' production if necessary, but wonder if there's a particular way of saying it.
Does anyone know how to express this in English, please? I imagine it means save enough water to cover several years' production if necessary, but wonder if there's a particular way of saying it.
Proposed translations
(English)
| 2 +1 | manage over several years |
EKM
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| 3 | several year rule |
Hugh Curtis
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Proposed translations
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15 hrs
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manage over several years
Obviously not an exact translation, but I think you'll have to settle for rewriting the sentence. Not sure if it helps, but as an illustration of the "flerårs" prefix, Gullberg suggests "budgeting over two or more years" for "flerårsbudgetering".
My hunch is a native speaker might opt for something like 'long term perspective water management' and then adding "over two or more years" somewhere else in a sentence as a specification.
("Vattenhushållning" would perhaps be better translated as "water (resource) management" than as "water housekeeping".)
My hunch is a native speaker might opt for something like 'long term perspective water management' and then adding "over two or more years" somewhere else in a sentence as a specification.
("Vattenhushållning" would perhaps be better translated as "water (resource) management" than as "water housekeeping".)
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Comment: "Thanks, EKM (firstly for understanding why I asked the question ;)) and then confirming my own thoughts - rewrite it!"
4 hrs
several year rule
Common sense
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