Aug 1, 2006 09:31
18 yrs ago
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French term
maîtrisé
Non-PRO
French to English
Art/Literary
Journalism
car names
Describing a car (model) name and the reasons it was chosen:
"Ce nom évoque les grands espaces maîtrisés"
"Wide-open spaces" for "grands espaces", but stuck on "maîtrisés". I'd rather not give away the name of the car but to be frank in my opinion there is zero connection between it and these "grands espaces" !
As always, many thanks.
"Ce nom évoque les grands espaces maîtrisés"
"Wide-open spaces" for "grands espaces", but stuck on "maîtrisés". I'd rather not give away the name of the car but to be frank in my opinion there is zero connection between it and these "grands espaces" !
As always, many thanks.
Proposed translations
(English)
| 2 +2 | brought within reach / opened up |
David Sirett
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| 4 | mastered |
Serena Tutino
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| 3 +1 | tamed |
CMJ_Trans (X)
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| 3 +1 | conquered |
Fiorsam
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Proposed translations
+2
8 mins
Selected
brought within reach / opened up
or something along those lines.
Note from asker:
| "Wide-open spaces brought within reach" fits well for a car. :-) |
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: ""Brought within reach" went best in the context. Thank you everyone for helping."
2 mins
Serena Tutino
Italy
Italy
Italy
Let's connect the dots!
Native in: Italian 
Works in: English to Italian, Italian to English, French to Italian, and 2 more.
mastered
What about "mastered"?
+1
41 mins
tamed
but how you plan to put this all together defeats me: it is a name that conjures up the taming of the wide open spaces. I presume the idea is that with this jalopy the wide open spaces are yours for the taking?
A name redolent of the wide open spaces waiting to be tamed.
Yuk!
A name redolent of the wide open spaces waiting to be tamed.
Yuk!
Note from asker:
| Except I also have "untamed nature" for "nature sauvage" earlier in the text (not something you could guess, obviously!). Thanks though, it's a good suggestion. |
| PS. Thanks for "redolent of". I've suggested, implied, evoked, recalled, brought to mind, hinted at... and was running out of synonyms! |
+1
2 hrs
conquered
It's not a literal translation, but I think the phrase refers to the spaces (e.g. land, air, sea) that man has "conquered" through the development of such devises as ***cars***, planes, spaceships etc.
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