Jan 22, 2012 11:37
12 yrs ago
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French term

découvrir quelques pages de l'histoire

Non-PRO French to English Marketing General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters in a tourist brochure
La côte ouest est principalement faite de plages de sable doré ou noir. XXXet les XXXXXXX offrent de belles plages et d'excellentes vagues pour les surfeurs. Plus loin, se trouve le lagon (le mieux préservé de l'île) et la plage xxxx.

Mais l'ouest permet aussi de découvrir quelques pages de l'histoire du pays : la chapelle, le musée um agricole et industriel et le Conservatoire botanique, qui protège les plantes rares et menacées.
Change log

Jan 22, 2012 11:42: writeaway changed "Field" from "Other" to "Marketing" , "Field (specific)" from "Tourism & Travel" to "General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters" , "Field (write-in)" from "expression (tourist brochure)" to "colloquial expression (in a tourist brochure)"

Jan 22, 2012 13:20: writeaway changed "Field (write-in)" from "colloquial expression (in a tourist brochure)" to "in a tourist brochure"

Discussion

Stephanie Sullivan (asker) Jan 22, 2012:
I'm looking for an idiomatic way to put it
writeaway Jan 22, 2012:
@SJLD my bad. no longer colloquial
SJLD Jan 22, 2012:
Don't see what's colloquial about it.
Sean Sheahan Jan 22, 2012:
Same question to S S.... This seems easy enough - see KudoZ rules for asking...
writeaway Jan 22, 2012:
Is there a particular problem? What is the problem here? Just finding out how to say this in (idiomatic) English? Or is there a special problem this is presenting in the text?

Proposed translations

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discover a few chapters of the country's history

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Peer comment(s):

agree Nicky Over : Seems more idiomatic than 'a few pages...'.
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agree AllegroTrans
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agree NancyLynn
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agree Evans (X)
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agree cmwilliams (X)
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agree Verginia Ophof
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agree Helen Shiner : or uncover
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agree Cynthia Johnson (X)
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French term (edited): découvrir quelques pages de l\'histoire du pays

uncover/discover several pages/pages and pages of the country's history

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bring to life the history of the area

I find often with tourist texts you cannot translate literally, French tends to be more poetic than English. Here you could change the sentence around and say something like: "In the west, the chapel, museum, etc. bring to life the history of the area..."
Peer comment(s):

neutral writeaway : where does bring to life enter into it?
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Well, I suppose when you read a history book it helps you experience history, it brings the history to life. When you visit historical sites history is also brought to life!
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