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terms marked with ^† are often without further comment. They come from the experience of people who have translated large tracts of Salesian literature, e.g. Fr Borgatelli’s translation of the Memorie Biografiche. In other words most of these terms are dated ones, found only or mainly in older Salesian texts. To view terms in context, click on the text indicator below the term (not all terms have one as yet). Use the 'find' facility in Notepad or other to find the precise location of the term in context Return to Finding Your Way
I Becchi 303vigano.txt - 1 Istituti religiosi (ricordiamo 0i Becchi e Valdocco) e nell’esperienza vissuta di ognuno	IT	The Becchi 碧基	EN-EN ZH	May be referred to either in its Italian form or the glossed version with ‘The.’
identità carismatica 355vecchi.txt - necessario avere: comunità religiose con una chiara identità carismatica, assimilata e vissuta, in grado cioè di	IT	charismatic identity	EN-EN	Synonymous with Salesian identity or the indole propria or special character of the Salesian. Vocational Identity is an additional term employed frequently in our texts.	In specific terms, the charismatic identity of Salesian of Don Bosco is to make welcome and to share the life of the young especially those who are poorest. It was a term often employed by Fr Viganò.
identità salesiana CG25comunità1.txt - servitore dell’unità e dell’identità salesiana, maestro e guida pastorale, Return to top	IT	Salesian identity	EN-EN	Identity is a term which collocates widely in Salesian literature - charismatic, spiritual, Salesian, priestly, lay, to name but a few. Salesian identity could also refer to St. Francis de Sales, but more commonly on SDB lips it refers to the specific character of the gift of the Spirit represented in Don Bosco and his Salesians.	Don Bosco's Dream of the Ten Diamonds is a kind of snapshot of the Salesian identity as he saw it. The Commentary on the Constitutions and the Ratio are two documents which specify elements of the Salesian identity.
identità vocazionale 363-famsal.txt - si è fatta sulle componenti che costituiscono l'identità vocazionale salesiana da parte del	IT	vocational identity	EN-EN	Synonymous with other terms such as Salesian identity, charismatic identity, this term began its ecclesial journey with Vatican II's call to each institute to renew its sense of identity. The Special General Chapter (SGC) was the Chapter which carried out this renewal within the Congregation, from which came the renewed Constitutions. They directly employ the term (e.g. C. 97).	The term is applied either very broadly, in reference to the 'vocation' that stems from Baptism, or more specifically, either for a specific Christian vocation such s that of educator, or a specific type of consecrated vocation as in the case of the Brother, the Priest. Vocational identity determines the formation process, hence it will be found in the Ratio. Discussion of vocational fragility also returns to the need for a clear and strong vocational identity.
Il Direttore Salesiano. Un ministero per l’animazione e il governo della comunità locale	IT	The Salesian Rector. A ministry for the animation and government of the local community 慈幼會院長,一個激勵和管治地方團體的職位	EN-EN ZH	Title of guide for the Salesian Rector sometimes simply called the Rector’s Handbook
il primo responsabile Pv8.txt - Ciascuno di noi è il primo responsabile della sua povertà, per cui quotidia Return to top	IT	The first in responsibility	EN-EN	In addition to being guide of the community the Rector is the first in responsibility for the mission. But the term is applied to the community in its own right too, especially within the EPC where it is first in responsibility for formation, spirituality, animation. Although it must be said that the Rector is similarly named for this responsibility within the EPC.
^†Ill.mo e benemerito Sig. Commendatore	IT	^†My dear Comendatore	EN-EN	A salutatiion often found in Don Bosco's letters
Immacolata (Concezione) DBCircolari.txt - Festa dell'Immacolata Concezione di Maria SS. 8 Dicembre 1885. Return to top	IT	Immaculate (Conception), Mary Immaculate	EN-EN	The full term refers to a dogma of the Church concerning Mary's singular grace in being conceived without sin proclaimed on 8th December 1854. Often, in Don Bosco's and subsequent Salesian reference, it is shortened to The Immaculate.	The dogma and the event of its proclamation are especially significant in Salesian history. In the first 20 years of his life, before he had settled on the term Help of Christians, his reference was always to Mary Immaculate. The 8th December, a good ten years and more before the dogma was proclaimed, was the date he assigned to the start of his work. Cf Bartolomeo Garelli. The proclamation date was also the date Dominic Savio wrote up his simple programme of life under Don Bosco's tutelage at the Oratory. The Sodality of the Immaculate Conception, of which Dominic was a co-founder, became a school of preparation for boys who eventually were the beginnings of the Salesian Society. At Mornese, the Daughters of the Immaculate group of women were the basis for what became the Salesian Sisters.
imborghesimento CG25alleg2.txt - testimonianza di Dio, il superamento di ogni forma di imborghesimento, atonia e mediocrità.	IT	tendency to become middle class 中產階級	EN-EN ZH
impegno sociale SSCS - it.txt - per i giovani l’impegno sociale e cristiano di trasformazione della società. Siamo	IT	social commitment t社會義務	EN-EN ZH	The Italian impegno is a term that one seeks in vain before 1970 in Salesian texts, but from this time onwards it appears frequently. The SGC (1971-2) devoted a long article to Salesian commitment to justice in the world.	Return to Index
impresa SSCS - it.txt - una opera o impresa che già funziona professionalmente e che è già consolidata	IT	business, business venture, enterprise 事業	EN-EN ZH	The Italian term can have a general reference, e.g. to an impresa missionaria or apostolica. But in more recent times, when applied to the field of social communications it implies something closer to azienda or business venture.	In the Salesian Social Communication System, business ventures are given an important role, especially in terms of the formation of Salesians to work in this environment, and the place that provincial, inter-provincial or region, inter-regional organisation plays.
in definitiva	IT	after all, when all is said and done 終究	EN-EN ZH
incaricato Return to top PGmanCapitolo 4.txt - L'incaricato dell’Oratorio- Centro Giovanile	IT	person in charge 負責人	EN-EN ZH	A less standard form seen in some Salesian documents is incharge or in-charge.	Such non-standard terms are to be discouraged as they are simply direct transfer from the Italian into non-standard English
incassi	IT	incomes 收入	EN-EN ZH	Accounting terminology
inculturazione 381chavez.txt - ha giocato un ruolo importante anche sull’inculturazione del carisma. Voi troverete i	IT	inculturation 本地化	EN-EN ZH	Note that this is distinct from enculturation. It means integrating Christian faith in human culture(s). The term begins to appear in ecclesial documents from about 1975 onwards. Its appearance in Salesian vocabulary can be owed in a particular way to representatives from Bangalore (India) at the Special General Chapter 20 (1971-72). The term appears often in the phrase inculturazione del Vangelo (inculturation of the Gospel). While the noun form works easily enough in English, there is still some resistance to it as a verb.	Italian only has the word inculturazione since en- is not a prefix in that language. It may use the word socializzazione to express what English means by enculturation. Salesians have their own particular contribution to give to an understanding of inculturation in practice, given the capacity of the Salesian charism to inculturate the Gospel message in the world and to inculturate itself in so many cultures.
^†industrie DBCircolari.txt - Persuadetevi, o cari miei figliuoli, che simili industrie attireranno su di voi e sui nostri	IT	^†stratagems, tricks, inducements	EN-EN		Return to Index
inserimento sociale Return to top PGmanCapitolo 2.txt - Il gruppo giovanile deve guardare allo sbocco nell’inserimento sociale ed	IT	slotting into society 融入社會	EN-EN ZH	Insertion is not really the sense of the Italian word in this context; it is more one of fitting in, involvement, even with a sense of commitment
inserirsi SDB-Regolamenti-i.txt -inserirsi nei circuiti della stampa, del cinema, della radio e della televisione;	IT	to participate 融入參與	EN-EN ZH	Avoid glossing with insert unless it is clear that this is the better choice
intenzionalità RFCN_Cap_2.txt - l’impegno a mantenere l’intenzionalità vocazionale salesiana come criterio di orientamento	IT	deliberateness (of) 慎重考慮	EN-EN ZH	Intentionality is too Latinate
Interamerica	IT	Interamerica 美洲各國之間	EN-EN ZH	Current term for a Salesian region
internato 387chavez.txt - l’internato nella storia salesiana. Oggi è opportuno dotarli di un buon Progetto Educativo-	IT	boarding establishment 寄宿學校	EN-EN ZH	Could be a hostel, even a boarding school. Antonym with esternato
intervento Rfcncap1.txt - che il candidato manifesta; il suo intervento rimane nell’ambito di una consulenza	IT	statement, intervention 聲明	EN-EN ZH	Avoid glossing with intervention unless it is clear that this is the better choice
invigilatore	IT	invigilator 監察者	EN-EN ZH	A role to be found in DB’s Regulations for the Oratory
Irmas de Jesús Adolescente IJA	ES	Sisters of Jesus, Adolescent	EN-EN	Founded in 1938 in Campo Grande Brazil by Bishop Prinate	Members of the Salesian Family
irrinunciabile	IT	inalienable 不能放棄的	EN-EN ZH
ispettore Return to top DBCircolari.txt - Pia Società, eleggo e nomino D. Francesco Cerruti, attualmente Ispettore dell'Ispettoria	IT	provincial 省會長會長	EN-EN ZH	DB chose terms which had resonance within civil society at the time (inspector), rather than an ecclesiastical term	Return to Index cf. also the Provincial's manual
ispettoria Dbtrelet.txt - È assai opportuno che tu qualche volta lungo l’anno raduni i direttori della tua Ispettoria per	IT	province 會省	EN-EN	The term goes back to DB himself
istituti religiosi Cg20-3.txt - Rinnovamento degli Istituti religiosi indica chiaramente che esso deve ispirarsi al Concilio, tutto il Concilio	IT	religious institutes	EN-EN	The term here is in the plural since it is found more frequently in this form in Salesian documents. Institute is the more general term used in Canon Law applied to groups formed around a particular charism. Synonymous terms are institutes of consecrated life, religious orders, religious congregations. Cf. also istituto religioso	An order is, technically, a group taking solemn vows. A Congregation's members take simple vows. The Salesian Sisters (FMA) normally refer to themselves as an Institute. SDB's more often than not call themselves a Society or a Congregation.
Istituto clericale eg11-Amministrazione dei beni temporali.txt - maggiore nell’Istituto clericale di diritto pontificio.	IT	Clerical Institute 神職學院	EN-EN ZH	The term is taken directly from the Code of canon law and indicates that the service of government of the community, in the Institute’s tradition, is entrusted at all levels to a confrere who is a priest
Istituto di diritto pontificio Return to top Pv2.txt - 168.668 bytes - Un Istituto di diritto pontificio, e non semplicemente diocesano: i	IT	Institute by Pontifical Right 宗座學院	EN-EN ZH	Being an institute by pontifical right gives the society an exemption, which is not to be seen in negative terms as ‘not’ being responsible to the local ordinary, but in positive terms as fostering the unity of the Congregation worldwide. It also underlines our availability of service to the universal Church
Istituto di Scienze della Comunicazione Sociale ISCOS	IT	Institute of Sciences of Social Communication 社會傳播學學院	EN-EN ZH	Now raised to status of a faculty of UPS
istituto magistrale 332vigano.txt - che egli andava a fare alla Casa generalizia di Nizza Monferrato, dove funzionava un fiorente Istituto Magistrale:	IT	teachers’ college 師範大學	EN-EN ZH
Istituto Ratisbonne	IT	Ratisbonne Institute	EN-EN	Salesian seminary and study centre in Jerusalem which used be located at Cremisan near Bethlehem	Often we see Salesian Monastery Ratisbonne in the official title – this is to fulfil Israeli law regarding its financial status
Istituto religioso 365vecchi.txt - accuratezza. Mi ha impressionato leggere in una Regola di un istituto religioso queste indicazioni sul lavoro: Return to top	IT	Religious Institute 修會	E—EN ZH	Religious institutes differ from Secular institutes where profession of the gospel counsels is not lived out in community, and from Societies of Apostolic Life where though there is community, there is no bond of public vows. Cf also istituti religiosi	Return to Index
Istituto Salesiano per le Missioni	IT	Salesian Missions Institute 慈幼會傳教學院	EN-EN ZH	The juridical entity known as the Istituto Salesiano per le Missioni (Salesian Missions Institute), located at Turin-Valdocco, Via Maria Ausiliatrice no. 32, was the wish of Bl. Philip Rinaldi, 3^rd Successor of Don Bosco.
Istituto Secolare 298vigano.txt - secolarità consacrata; essa infatti è propria dei laici membri di un Istituto secolare	IT	Secular Institute	EN-EN	Amongst the many possible forms of Religious Life in the Church, the Secular Institute is a contemporary form. Part of Consecrated Life, members of a Secular Institute profess the evangelical counsels discretely, almost in hidden fashion by contrast with the visible manner of Religious profession.	The Volunteers of Don Bosco are a Secular Institute by Pontifical Right (since 1978). The Volunteers With Don Bosco (CDB) are not yet a Secular Insitute but aim to become one.
Istituto Storico Salesiano ISS 361vecchi.txt - La Congregazione ha voluto la fondazione dell’Istituto Storico Salesiano. Return to top	IT	Salesian Historical Institute ISS 慈幼會歷史學院	EN-EN ZH	The acronym is retained in all languages	Founded 1981 in order to place a scientifically and technically valid study of documents of the Salesian heritage in the hands of scholars and other interested persons.
(Istituzioni Salesiane di Educazione Superiore) IUS 361vecchi.txt - È cresciuto in questi anni il numero di istituzioni universitarie salesiane.	IT	Salesian Institutions for Higher Education(IUS), or, IUS: Salesian Institutions for Higher Education cf. image 慈幼會大學	EN-EN ZH	IUS was simply an acronym until 2001 where, until then, it was the acronym for Istituzioni Universitarie Salesiane. The letters have been retained, but the preferred expanded term no longer directly relates to them acronymically, at least in English, and the term is now officially stated in its English version rather than in Italian	Return to Index A similar situation has occurred with ANS which no longer works exactly as an acronym, but has been retained for official use.
istruzione PGmanCapitolo 4.txt - - privilegiando l’aspetto educativo su quello meramente di istruzione	IT	education	EN-EN	the Italian term is almost synonymous with educazione and formazione but tends to be used to mean the acquisition of skills and here can contrast with educazione understood as gaining broad knowledge, acquiring attitudes.	Often best glossed as education in English except where it clearly means gaining specific competencies.
Italia-Medio Oriente Italy-MOR	IT	Italy-Middle East 意大利中東	EN-EN ZH	Current term for Salesian region
iter 332vigano.txt - L’4iter della Causa	LA	Iter	EN-EN	Tends to remain untranslated from Latin. If translated could be path followed
itinerario 380chavez6.txt - Elaborare un itinerario formativo dei	IT	curriculum, progress made 課程行程	EN-EN ZH	Depends on context; avoid itinerary unless it is obviously that with its usual English meaning of a journey outline
^†it non osta	IT	^†nihil obstat	LA-LA
Iuvenum Patris 330vigano.txt - — la preziosa Lettera Iuvenum Patris; Return to top	LA	Father of the Young 青年慈父	EN-EN ZH	Letter of Pope John Paul II to Salesians, Salesian Family, youth, Christian educators on occasion of 1988 centenary of Don Bosco’s death.	On this occasion JPII bestowed the official title of Father and Teacher of Youth on DB. Return to Index