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English to Romanian: First ProZ.com Translation Contest 2007 - Entry #368
Source text - English When she moved into his tiny house in Stroud, and took charge of his four small children, Mother was thirty and still quite handsome. She had not, I suppose, met anyone like him before. This rather priggish young man, with his devout gentility, his airs and manners, his music and ambitions, his charm, bright talk, and undeniable good looks, overwhelmed her as soon as she saw him. So she fell in love with him immediately, and remained in love for ever. And herself being comely, sensitive, and adoring, she attracted my father also. And so he married her. And so later he left her - with his children and some more of her own.
When he'd gone, she brought us to the village and waited. She waited for thirty years. I don't think she ever knew what had made him desert her, though the reasons seemed clear enough. She was too honest, too natural for this frightened man; too remote from his tidy laws. She was, after all, a country girl; disordered, hysterical, loving. She was muddled and mischievous as a chimney-jackdaw, she made her nest of rags and jewels, was happy in the sunlight, squawked loudly at danger, pried and was insatiably curious, forgot when to eat or ate all day, and sang when sunsets were red. She lived by the easy laws of the hedgerow, loved the world, and made no plans, had a quick holy eye for natural wonders and couldn't have kept a neat house for her life. What my father wished for was something quite different, something she could never give him - the protective order of an unimpeachable suburbia, which was what he got in the end.
The three or four years Mother spent with my father she fed on for the rest of her life. Her happiness at that time was something she guarded as though it must ensure his eventual return. She would talk about it almost in awe, not that it had ceased but that it had happened at all.
Translation - Romanian Când s-a mutat în căsuţa lui din Stroud şi i-a luat în grijă pe cei patru copii ai lui, Mama avea treizeci de ani şi era încă destul de atrăgătoare. Cred că nu cunoscuse pe nimeni asemeni lui până atunci. Acest tânăr destul de pedant, cu blândeţea sa evlavioasă, cu fasoanele şi manierele sale, armonia şi ambiţiile sale, farmecul său, senin la vorbă şi chipeş fără îndoială, a copleşit-o de la prima vedere. Astfel că se îndrăgosti de el de îndată şi rămase pe veci îndrăgostită. Şi cum era şi ea atrăgătoare, delicată şi tandră, i-a plăcut şi ea tatei. Şi aşa a luat-o de soţie. Şi tot aşa, ceva mai târziu, a părăsit-o – cu copiii lui şi câţiva de-ai ei pe deasupra.
După plecarea lui, ne-a adus în sat şi a aşteptat. A aşteptat treizeci de ani. Nu cred că a înţeles vreodată ce-l făcuse să o părăsească, cu toate că era destul de clar. Era prea onestă, prea simplă pentru acest om înspăimântat; prea departe de disciplina regulilor lui. La urma urmelor, era doar o fată de la ţară; împrăştiată, isterică, iubitoare. Era aiurită şi neastâmpărată ca o stăncuţă la coşul casei, îşi făcea cuibul din zdrenţe şi giuvaeruri, se bucura de soare, ţipa strident a pericol, iscodea şi era veşnic curioasă, uita să mânănce sau mânca toată ziua şi cânta la apusul roşu al soarelui. Trăia după legea simplă a tufelor de verdeaţă, iubea lumea fără să-şi facă planuri, privea cu sfinţenie la miracolele naturii şi nu-şi putea face ordine în casă pentru nimic în lume. Tatăl meu îşi dorea altceva, ceva ce ea nu i-a putut oferi niciodată – siguranţa unui cartier disciplinat şi impecabil, de care a şi avut parte în cele din urmă.
Pentru tot restul vieţii s-a hrănit cu acei trei sau patru ani pe care Mama îi petrecuse alături de tatăl meu. Păzea acel dram de fericire de atunci ca şi cum aceasta l-ar aduce, în cele din urmă, înapoi. Vorbea despre fericirea asta aproape înmărmurită, nu pentru că se stinsese, ci pentru că existase.
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English to Romanian: Combustion General field: Tech/Engineering Detailed field: Automotive / Cars & Trucks
Source text - English 1 Combustion
1.1 The energy and heat assessment
The energy assessment is used to determine how the energy from the fuel is used.
The combustion of the mix in fact produces a quantity of energy which is not completely exploited. A large proportion of the energy is thus evacuated into the air, the cooling system and the exhaust gases in the form of heat.
Studying the heat assessment enables the engine output to be determined. In other words, the useful energy in relation to the total energy produced and therefore consumed.
The output of the internal combustion engine is relatively low. On vehicles, it is around 35%. It can exceed 50% on industrial engines whose operation is stable (fixed revolution speed).
This diagram shows the distribution of the energy created by combustion. A large quantity of energy is evacuated by the exhaust gases in the form of heat and mechanical energy. When the exhaust valve is opened, the pressure applied to the piston is freed. The mechanical principle of the engine does not therefore profit entirely from the pressure produced. The heat evacuated by the gases is also considerable.
Part of the energy is absorbed by the friction inside the engine. All of the moving parts contribute to generating friction. The friction is larger or smaller depending on the size and weight of the moving parts, but also depending on the technology used (gasoline/diesel).
A large part of the energy is evacuated into the cooling system in the form of heat. The circuit then transmits the heat to the outside air via the cooling radiator.
Finally, the useful mechanical energy is of around 32 to 35% for a gasoline engine and can go up to 42% on Diesel engines.
1.2 The principle of combustion
Combustion is a chemical reaction. Fuel and combustive molecules react with each other, the atoms separate and then assemble differently to create other molecules.
Fuels are composed of several hydrocarbons. They are mainly composed of 'Carbon (C)' atoms and 'Hydrogen (H)' atoms.
The H/C relationship of gasoline or diesel is close to that of heptane (C7H16) and this is which heptane is chosen to represent fuel in chemical equations.
The chemical equation of the perfect combustion of heptane is as follows:
C7H16 + 11O2 => 7CO2 + 8H2O
The fuel that reacts with oxygen in the air produces carbon dioxide and water vapour.
The result is obtained in perfect combustion conditions. This means that each heptane molecule reacts to combustion and the mixture is perfectly homogenous, so that the carbon dioxide and water molecules can form easily.
The combustion that takes place in the heat engine does not enjoy perfect conditions. Indeed, the mixture is never entirely homogenous, the molecules which compose the hydrocarbons are stable to a greater or lesser degree, elements other than carbon and hydrogen are present in the fuel, 80% of air is composed of nitrogen and, above all, the engine parts absorb the heat which is what carries combustion. The zones on the mechanical part contacts, known as 'cold zones', are not favourable to combustion occurring correctly.
It is these parameters that affect combustion and create pollutants.
The equation can be written thus:
C7H16 + O2 + N2 => CO2 + H2O + NOx + HC + CO
In this equation, the pollutants of the internal combustion engine can be seen.
Translation - Romanian 1 Combustia
1.1 Evaluarea energiei și a căldurii
Evaluarea energiei se folosește pentru determinarea modului în care este utilizată energia furnizată de carburant.
De fapt, combustia amestecului produce o cantitate de energie care nu este valorificată la maximum. O mare parte din această energie este astfel evacuată în aer, în sistemul de răcire și în gazele de eșapament sub formă de căldură.
Studiul evaluării căldurii permite determinarea randamentului motorului. Cu alte cuvinte, energia utilă în raport cu energia totală generată și, prin urmare, consumată.
Randamentul motorului cu combustie internă este relativ redus. La vehicule, acesta este de circa 35%. În cazul motoarelor industriale ce operează în poziție fixă (turație constantă), acesta poate depăși 50%.
Această diagramă ilustrează distribuția energiei generate de combustie. O mare cantitate de energie este evacuată de către gazele de eșapament sub formă de căldură și energie mecanică. Când supapa de evacuare este deschisă, presiunea aplicată asupra pistonului este eliberată. Prin urmare, principiul mecanic al motorului nu beneficiază în întregime de presiunea generată. Căldura evacuată prin intermediul gazelor este, de asemenea, considerabilă.
O parte din energie este absorbită de către procesele de frecare din interiorul motorului. Toate părțile mobile contribuie la generarea de frecare. Frecarea este mai intensă sau mai redusă, în funcție de dimensiunile și greutatea părților mobile, dar și în funcție de tehnologia utilizată (benzină/motorină).
O mare parte din energie este evacuată în sistemul de răcire sub formă de căldură. Circuitul transmite apoi căldura aerului din exterior prin intermediul radiatorului de răcire.
În final, energia mecanică utilă este de circa 32 – 35% în cazul unui motor cu benzină și poate atinge 42% la motoarele Diesel.
1.2 Principiul combustiei
Combustia este o reacție chimică. Carburantul și moleculele combustibile reacționează unele cu altele, atomii se separă și apoi se combină diferit creând alte molecule.
Carburanții se compun din mai multe hidrocarburi. Principalele elemente componente sunt atomii de „Carbon (C)” și atomii de „Hidrogen (H)”.
Raportul H/C în cazul benzinei sau motorinei este similar cu cel al heptanului (C7H16) și de aceea heptanul se folosește pentru a reprezenta carburantul în ecuațiile chimice.
Ecuația chimică a combustiei complete a heptanului este următoarea:
C7H16 + 11O2 => 7CO2 + 8H2O
Carburantul care reacționează cu oxigenul din aer produce dioxid de carbon și vapori de apă.
Rezultatul este obținut în condiții de combustie completă. Această înseamnă că fiecare moleculă de heptan reacționează la combustie iar amestecul este perfect omogen astfel încât dioxidul de carbon și moleculele de apă se pot forma cu ușurință.
Combustia care are loc în motorul termic nu beneficiază de condiții perfecte. Într-adevăr, amestecul nu este niciodată perfect omogen, moleculele care compun hidrocarburile sunt mai mult sau mai puțin stabile, în compoziția carburantului sunt prezente și alte elemente în afară de carbon și hidrogen, 80% din aer este compus din azot și, în plus, componentele motorului absorb căldura care menține combustia. Zonele de contact ale părților mecanice, cunoscute sub denumirea de „zone reci”, nu sunt favorabile producerii corecte a combustiei.
Aceștia sunt parametrii care afectează combustia și dau naștere la poluanți.
Astfel, ecuația poate fi scrisă:
C7H16 + O2 + N2 => CO2 + H2O + NOx + HC + CO
În această ecuație, se pot vedea poluanții motorului cu combustie internă.
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