German德语: arithmethische MachtteilungEnglish英语 translation: dividing power proportionately  KudoZ The KudoZ network provides a framework for translators ... More  |
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| 词条（来自下列问题） | | German德语词条或短语： | arithmethische Machtteilung | | English英语翻译： | dividing power proportionately | | 输入者： | Teresa Reinhardt |
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Art/Literary - 政府/政治 / politics | | German德语词条或短语： arithmethische Machtteilung | I am not looking so much for an exact term, which probably doesn't exist, but rather an explanation of the concept:
This is from a recent Spiegel article (page 100 of 4/20.1.03:
Unmut macht sich vor allem i Westkasachstan breit, wo die lukrativen Oelfelder liegen. Die dortigen Clans sehen sich bei der Vergabe hoher Staatsaemter zunehmend benachteiligt -- entgegen der bisher ueblichen Praxis arithmetischer Machtteilung. |
| | 写给提问者或来自提问者的留言William Stein (asker): 16:23 Jan 27, 2003: Teresa - proportionately to the local population?
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| | contrary to the former practice of dividing power proportionately | 说明：
(among the different groups) is a literal translation; I'm sure you can make an elegant sentence out of it all
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Note added at 2003-01-27 17:12:44 (GMT)
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Arithmetic (vs. geometric) simply means proportionate (vs. exponential, e.g.)
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Note added at 2003-02-01 14:17:25 (GMT) Post-grading
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William, here\'s an attempt at clarification:
Let\'s say, tribe A is 40% of the population, tribe B 20%, tribe C 5%, and so on. The seats on the tribal council (or whatever organ, parliament, etc.) used to be distributed according to the tribes\' shares of the population (just like our parties...sort of).
So the Aians got 40% of the seats, the Bians 20%, etc.
Make sense? Quite democratic, if I may say so.... |
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| 提问者给回答者的留言I have to admit, I still don't really understand what they're talking about it. The big question is "Proportional to what?"
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| contrary to the former practice of dividing power proportionately
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(among the different groups) is a literal translation; I'm sure you can make an elegant sentence out of it all
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Note added at 2003-01-27 17:12:44 (GMT)
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Arithmetic (vs. geometric) simply means proportionate (vs. exponential, e.g.)
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Note added at 2003-02-01 14:17:25 (GMT) Post-grading
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William, here\'s an attempt at clarification:
Let\'s say, tribe A is 40% of the population, tribe B 20%, tribe C 5%, and so on. The seats on the tribal council (or whatever organ, parliament, etc.) used to be distributed according to the tribes\' shares of the population (just like our parties...sort of).
So the Aians got 40% of the seats, the Bians 20%, etc.
Make sense? Quite democratic, if I may say so....
| | 提问者给回答者的留言| I have to admit, I still don't really understand what they're talking about it. The big question is "Proportional to what?" |
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| .. of dividing power between them
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I'm afraid I can't read anything about proportions into the sentence. I think it simply means that they share power between them, sort of divvying up the official positions between them.
hope it helps
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Note added at 2003-01-27 17:18:26 (GMT)
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Arithmetic simply means \'by numbers\', as far as I can see.
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The translation workplace 
