correrías

English translation: raids

12:39 Sep 15, 2017

Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Government / Politics

Spanish term or phrase: correrías

This is a text about artists of the Mexican revolution. I suppose the best translation is raids, but the author's matter-of-fact tone makes me wonder...

Como Goitia, José Clemente Orozco vivió de manera directa el estallido y desarrollo de la Revolución, y acompañó a Dr. Atl en sus correrías al lado de Venustiano Carranza, uno de sus jefes. Esto le permitió imprimir a su obra un sello particular por medio de la crítica y la sátira al movimiento armado.

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Wendy Gosselin KudoZ activity Questions: 2021 (3 open) (1 without valid answers) (214 closed without grading) Answers: 2 Argentina
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English translation:raids

Explanation:
I know next to nothing about the Mexican Revolution, but if these "correrías" were rapid surprise attacks by armed units (one of the meanings of "correría"), then I see nothing in the short text you have provided why "raid" shouldn't be the used.

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Carlos Segura
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Local time: 22:54

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Summary of answers provided

4 +3

exploits

neilmac

3 +2

raids

Carlos Segura

ambushes

AllegroTrans

Discussion entries: 3

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peer agreement (net): +2

raids

Carlos Segura
United Kingdom
Local time: 22:54
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Spanish,

English
PRO pts in category: 4

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1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

exploits

Explanation:
= adventures, etc.
I really don't think "raids/incursions" works very well for the phrase in question, as they are too specific.

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Phil's suggestion "forays" is suitable too IMHO.

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Note added at 1 hr (2017-09-15 14:34:33 GMT)
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https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/foray

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Of course , these exploits or adventures MAY have included raids or incursions, but there is nothing explicit in the query sentence to justify the assumption.

Example sentence(s):

I was wallowing in Webster's words about his exploits alongside Armstrong
Gilford, who was now on something of a high following his exploits alongside Seve the previous afternoon

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exploit

neilmac
Spain
Local time: 22:54
Works in field
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English
PRO pts in category: 200

9 hrs confidence:

ambushes

Explanation:
Maybe

Mexican Revolution - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Revolution
The Mexican Revolution (Spanish: Revolución mexicana) was a major armed struggle c. ...... Jesús Guajardo, in an elaborate ambush. Guajardo set up the ...
Mexican Revolution in a nutshell by Doris Marley
www.appstate.edu/~dm64190/
The Mexican Revolution was brought on, in part, by disagreements among the ... Zapata was ambushed and killed by soldiers of the revolutionary faction of ...
Mata de los Toros, Veracruz An Ambush Site During the Mexican ...
www.johntoddjr.com/149 Caminorealmaps/03 caminotripmata.htm
"Well, the old people say that in the time of the Mexican Revolution there was an ... The ambush at Mata de los Toros happened on March 5, 1917, one month ...
The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution: The Bloodiest Decade, ...
https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0826334849
Charles Houston Harris, ‎Louis R. Sadler - 2007 - ‎History
He crossed the river the day after the ambush to conduct a quiet investigation of his own. In the small settlement of Tahuachalito he interviewed some of the ...

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Survivors in Mexico - Page 253 - Google Books Result
https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0300105215
Rebecca West, ‎Bernard Schweizer - 2004 - ‎History
DR. ATL IV 207 There was Carranza: Venustiano Carranza (1859-1920), ... While carrying out his unauthorised land reforms, he was ambushed and killed by ...

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Local time: 21:54
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English
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