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opportunity knocks


celador May 06, 2007 02:31 PM

opportunity knocks
 
How would I best say
opportunity still knocks / todavía de la oportunidad golpes

Is golpes the right word for this?

Felipe May 06, 2007 11:07 PM

That's a metaphor that might not work very well in Spanish directly translated.
You could say Hay una nueva oportunidad or Todavía hay oportunidad.

When I think of opportunity and golpear, I think of opportunity beating me over the head! Not good!

sosia May 07, 2007 01:42 AM

Felipe's are good:
Todavía hay una oprtunidad
Hay una nueva oportunidad.
Other options:
Todavía queda una oportunidad
Todavía te queda una ocasión
It's more lays than knocks, but we say it this way :D
The most nearly (but complicate)
Todavía hay una oportunidad golpeando a tu puerta. :D

celador May 07, 2007 08:00 AM

gracias para todos

I did not like the way golpes sounded either. I didn't think that would be how the Español would say it.

What I ended up with instead was
todavía viene de la oportunidad / still comes of the opportunity

How does that sound?

Tomisimo May 07, 2007 10:16 PM

It's easier to get an idea of the context if you can post a complete sentence, otherwise the translation might not be very good.

Another option might be:
La oportunidad todavía llama a tu puerta.

celador May 08, 2007 07:42 PM

calls at the door does sound like it might be the way they might say this, but is there a native idomatic phrase for this. el preguntarse


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