Mar 4, 2010 15:58
14 yrs ago
English term
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Native in: French
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emerge, sheer-sided, from
English to French
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From the luxurious nature, we make our way to the beauty of a dramatic desert wilderness, Wadi Rum constiuting a riches treasure. This protected area covers some 720 square kilometers of huge mountains of sandstone amongst which granite emerge, sheer-sided from wide sandy valleys to reach heights of 1700 meters and more.
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Proposed translations
(French)
| 4 +5 | où des parois abruptes émergent |
Sylvain Meyrous (X)
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| 3 +2 | surgissent abruptement de |
Tony M
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| 3 | émergent en bordure même |
Françoise Vogel
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| 3 | se dressent au milieu de |
ALIAS trad
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Proposed translations
+5
26 mins
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où des parois abruptes émergent
Reste à intéger cela de façon harmonieuse dans la phrase. Pas forcément évident.
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Comment: "merci"
18 mins
Françoise Vogel
Native in French
Specializes in field
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Native in: French 
Works in: English to French, Italian to French, French to Italian, and 1 more.
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English term (edited):
emerge, sheer-sided from
émergent en bordure même
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Peer comment(s):
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Tony M
: I'm not sure this is anything to do with 'bordure', Françoise... ?
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Sylvain Meyrous (X)
: D'accord avec Tony. « Sided » a ici le sens de paroi, mais utilisé adjectivement.
8 mins
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29 mins
se dressent au milieu de
je pense qu'il faudrait une virgule avant "from"
sheer-sided = steep-sided, donc + ou - "dont les parois sont abruptes"
Je propose "se dresser" = "être posé verticalement".
"S'élèvent àla verticale" est plus explicite mais...bof...
sheer-sided = steep-sided, donc + ou - "dont les parois sont abruptes"
Je propose "se dresser" = "être posé verticalement".
"S'élèvent àla verticale" est plus explicite mais...bof...
Peer comment(s):
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GILLES MEUNIER
: au milieu de quoi ?
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wide sandy valleys. I'm not going to translate it all, am I...
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Tony M
: Seems to me to rather lose some of the expressive strength behind 'sheer-sided' /Non, pas vraiment, c'est très imagé, fait penser à un navire sur l'océan... les 'sheer sides' du 'SS Titanic', par exemple...
40 mins
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"se dresser" me semble pourtant bien évoquer immédiatement la verticalité. Quant à "emerge, sheer-sided" c'est un peu une formule toute faite.
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21 mins
surgissent abruptement de
Not quite sure excatly what is giving you problems here, but it looks as if you might have been parsing it wrongly.
In any event, note that the original EN is flawed (looks almost like a translation from FR in the first place!) — the plural verb 'emerge' anticipates a plural noun, whereas 'granite' is singular, and in any case, is rather odd used like this. I suspect 'granite' is in fact an adjective, but the associated plural noun is missing — perhaps 'outcrops'? Or 'inclusions', if you want to be technical (but that doesn't quite seem to be the register of your document here)!
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Note added at 6 hrs (2010-03-04 22:24:31 GMT)
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And here's a pciture of some of them: http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:sxFBpEIDF0-m-M:http://noo...
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Note added at 6 hrs (2010-03-04 22:26:56 GMT)
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Sorry, that was just the thumbnail, here's the full image:
http://noorjordan.com/New Folder/Wadi rum.jpg
In any event, note that the original EN is flawed (looks almost like a translation from FR in the first place!) — the plural verb 'emerge' anticipates a plural noun, whereas 'granite' is singular, and in any case, is rather odd used like this. I suspect 'granite' is in fact an adjective, but the associated plural noun is missing — perhaps 'outcrops'? Or 'inclusions', if you want to be technical (but that doesn't quite seem to be the register of your document here)!
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Note added at 6 hrs (2010-03-04 22:24:31 GMT)
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And here's a pciture of some of them: http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:sxFBpEIDF0-m-M:http://noo...
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Note added at 6 hrs (2010-03-04 22:26:56 GMT)
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Sorry, that was just the thumbnail, here's the full image:
http://noorjordan.com/New Folder/Wadi rum.jpg
Peer comment(s):
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kashew
: quasi verticalement?
3 hrs
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Thanks, J! Why not? Though I don't think it's strictly necessary...
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| agree |
Geneviève Tardif (X)
6 hrs
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Merci, Geneviève !
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