Questions tagged [anglais]
La question fait référence à un mot, une expression, un texte en anglais ou à la langue anglaise directement.
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Comment traduire « (the whole) fracas » ?
— They canceled the All Valley [tournament].[...] City council
just pulled the permit. Something about not wanting to foster a
culture of violence after the whole fracas at the school.
It's an over-...
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Traduction de « a rundown on the sub and a précis of the stuff in your hand » : choix de mots et formulation ?
Just give him a rundown on the sub and a précis of the stuff in
your hand.
Fais un topo général.
The Hunt for the Red October (1990), McTiernan, d'après l'oeuvre de Tom Clancy ; extrait de sous-...
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Comment traduire “in the first place” ?
Selon Merriam Webster, l'expression anglaise in the first place possède deux sens :
—used at the end of a sentence to indicate what was true or what should have been done at the beginning of a ...
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What's the difference between 'juste', 'seul' and 'seulement'?
I'm a beginner and I want to translate the phrase 'my family is only my mother and I', but I'm having trouble choosing the correct adverb. 'Juste' seems to have more meanings and I haven't encountered ...
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Comment traduire « the players that hang to the port of the bitt » ?
Dans le dictionnaire Cotgrave on trouve la définition de babillons :
The players that hang to the port of a bitt.
Il s'agit d'un objet relié à la direction d'un cheval. Comment traduit-on la phrase/...
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Comment traduire « First World problem » ?
Comment traduit-on un/le « First World problem » (aussi Wikipedia) en emploi informel pour les frustrations/difficultés éprouvées par des gens en l'absence de problèmes plus importants dans les pays ...
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Comment traduire «…an elusive earthiness » (vin) ?
Graceful yet seductive, this Pinot Noir is laced with polished notes
of cherries and red berries swimming amongst supple tannins and an
elusive earthiness.
L'adjectif elusive, c'est ce qui est ...
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How do you say in French “This system created by the government exploits the poorest communities.”?
The translations of “This system created by the government exploits the poorest communities.” that I have are
Ce system créé par le gouvernement exploite les communautés les moins riches.
Ce system ...
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Conveying “Pardon my French”
"Pardon my French" or "Excuse my French" is a common English language phrase ostensibly disguising profanity as words from the French language. The phrase is uttered in an attempt ...
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Conveying 'cut-off time'
I am writing a script containing the following instructions:
#Initialisation des paramètres
g = 9.8066 # Accélération de la pesanteur [m / sˆ2]
hauteur_initiale = 2.0 # y0 = hauteur de laquelle le ...
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Comment traduire le « no-nonsense [Nom] » ?
Single assignment for the no-nonsense [prénom nom (un arbitre)].
Le contexte c'est le commentaire sportif, on parle d'un arbitre d'un des match d'un tournoi. L'adjectif « no-nonsense » c'est l'aspect ...
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Comment transposer ou traduire « Lord willing and the creek don't rise » ?
I think with the grace of God, the goodwill of the neighbor and the
creek not rising, as the old saying goes, I think we may be able to
get that to 1.5 million a day, rather than 1 million a day.
[ Le ...
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“Faire boomerang / Avoir un effet boomerang”, en parlant d'une action hostile qui se retourne contre son auteur : est-ce courant ?
Peut-on utiliser couramment la locution
"Faire boomerang / avoir un effet boomerang" en parlant d'une action hostile, se retourner contre son auteur.
?
Comme par exemple :
La reforme des ...
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Comment traduire « seamless experience » ?
Hopefully we will hire more staff and our technology solutions will grow with us, providing a
seamless experience for seniors and caregivers.
Comment traduirait-on seamless ici (on hésite vu les ...
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Le « record d'audience » et l'« audience record » ?
[À LA UNE À 18H] Les autorités russes ont arrêté aujourd’hui une
proche alliée de l'opposant emprisonné Alexeï Navalny, tout en tentant
de juguler des appels à manifester alimentés par le record
d'...
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« He raised a United States flag on the ships's mast… » : (faire) (se) hisser ?
Perhaps recognizing his crew was outgunned, the Catalpa's American
captain hatched a clever plan. He raised a United States flag on the
ships's mast and, according to an exhibit in Canberra's National
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How could I say “Okay? What's your point?” in French?
I'm wondering how I would say something along the lines of "Okay? What's your point?", if that exists in French.
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Comment traduire « (to sign) the engrossment of the [bill etc.] » ?
Today, in a bipartisan way, the House demonstrated that no one is
above the law, not even the President of the United States, that
Donald Trump is a clear and present danger to our country, and that,
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Quelle est la traduction de « article of impeachment » ?
Pelosi signs article of impeachment against Trump.
S'agit-il de l'acte d'accusation (LeFigaro), de la mise en accusation (Le Monde), de la mise en examen (BBC), ou de l'article d'impeachment (...
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Comment traduire « clear and present danger to the nation » : choix des adjectifs et préposition ?
[...] He must go. He is a clear and present danger to the nation that
we all love. Since the presidential election in November – an
election the President lost – he has repeatedly held about – lied
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Comment traduire « kick-start your … career » ?
Kick-Start Your Graphic Design Career.
Le contexte c'est que c'est dans une offre de stage destinée à des étudiants. On peut voir que le verbe (to kick-start) pourrait signifier démarrer rapidement/...
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Pourquoi « nec plus ultra » est la forme reprise/retenue de cette locution latine courante ?
La locution provenant du latin scolaire moderne nec plus ultra, « relativement courante » pour « l'idée intensive de la qualité insurpassable », est attestée vers 1714 (DHLF ; TLFi : 1728). « Les ...
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Comment traduire « to throw a monkey wrench into » avec l'animé et l'inanimé ?
L'expression idiomatique « to throw a monkey wrench into » a déjà été abordée sous l'angle de l'étymologie. Voici deux exemples d'emploi :
The boss threw a monkey wrench into our plans when he said ...
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What are the French equivalents of “germophobia”, “germophobic”, and “a germophobe”?
What are the French equivalents of
germophobia
germophobic
a germophobe
and what are their genders?
Is it
(1) la germophobie (2) germophobe (3) un/e germophobe
or is it
(1) la mysophobie (2) ...
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“Self-explanation training”
Self-explanation is a learning technique in which students explain to themselves pieces of a learning material for the purpose of improving their understanding.
https://sites.google.com/site/...
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Conveying 'a whole different animal'
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/different%20animal
Definition of different animal
: something different
The sport has changed. It's a very/completely different animal today.
The other ...
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Expressing ''shoulda, coulda, woulda"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/woulda,_coulda,_shoulda
An expression of dismissiveness or disappointment concerning a statement, question, explanation, course of action, or occurrence involving ...
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Conveying 'food for thought"
Yes, your ideas have certainly given me food for thought (i.e. they are worth thinking about)!
Oui, tes idées m'ont bien donné matière à réflexion !
Can one use idiomatically 'matière à réflexion' ...
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Does 'calcul fastidieux' convey 'tedious calculations'? (i.e. lengthy ones)
The question is obvious. Linguee has many examples where 'tedious calculations' is conveyed by 'calculs fastidieux'. But I don't recall to see or hear the French turn at all. Is it considered ...
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How to convey the turn “to be plus past infinitive” (as in “where C is a constant to be determined”)?
y=Cx
where C is a constant to be determined.
"where C is a constant to be determined" should be conveyed by
"où C est une constante à déterminer"
or
"où C est une constante à ...
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Pourquoi 'bacon' se prononce-t-il comme en anglais ?
Pourquoi bacon se prononce-t-il comme en anglais ? Est-ce un simple cas comme celui de biftek où un mot français à l'origine s'est transformé à travers l'emprunt à l'anglais ? (C'est ce que dit ...
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Convey 'is raised' in mathematical context
The degree of the equation is the power to which the
highest derivative is raised.
Deepl conveys this as
Le degré de l'équation est la puissance à laquelle la dérivée la plus élevée est élevée.
To ...
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Le « election denialism » : est-ce une forme de « dénialisme » ?
Le titre d'une manchette contenait le terme « election denialism ». Le denialism c'est la « [...] practice of rejecting propositions which are strongly supported by scientific or historical evidence, ...
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Le « standing/stand-up desk » et le « sit-stand/sit to stand/«sit/stand»/sit n' stand/riser/rise up/adjustable height desk » ?
A standing desk or stand-up desk is a desk conceived for
writing, reading or drawing while standing up or while sitting on a
high stool. (Standing desk, Wikipédia)
...qui a été conçu pour écrire, ...
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Rhyme in French à la sit and shit in 'They're all sitting because they're shitting their breeches'
The other day I was talking with friends some about a live performance of Led Zeppelin from 1969.
A friend mentioned how inactive was the audience in front of a revolutionary performance. I said:
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Précisions sur le « Second Gentleman of the United States » ?
L'article Wikipédia Second Lady of the United States indique :
Second Spouse of the United States (SSOTUS), also known as Second Lady of the United States (SLOTUS), or Second Gentleman of the United ...
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Conveying '…and then some' as in 'biggest thing ever, and then some'
From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: https://sites.google.com/site/h2g2theguide/Index/i/538246
["Defining" infinity:] Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some.
Plus grand que ...
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Spring forward, fall back
Aujourd'hui au Canada on a mis à jour les horloges. Afin de se rappeler lequel est le bon sens, on a recours à une expression fréquente : « Spring forward, fall back. » En printemps on va en avant ...
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La forme particulière que la protéine doit prendre et que l'on nomme aussi « fold » ?
However, only knowing this sequence tells us little about what the
protein does and how it does it. In order to carry out their function
(e.g. as enzymes or antibodies), they must take on a particular ...
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Pourquoi dit-on “interprète” et pas “interpréteur ” (computing) ?
Ce type d'outil est désigné en anglais par le terme « interpreter ».
Souvent, alors que les auteurs du premier livre d'enseignement en
français sur la théorie des programmes, ont proposé « interprète »...
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Conveying 'on steroids'
What is IPython? This sounds like software produced by Apple®, but it is in fact a Python interpreter on steroids.
Qu'est-ce que IPython ? Cela ressemble à un logiciel produit par Apple®, mais il s'...
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Traduction de “passer mes examens”
passer = to pass (a location)
then why does:
passer mes examens = to sit/take/do my tests
see https://www.linguee.com/french-english/translation/passer+mes+examens.html
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French present continuous vs English present continuous
If I said "they hide in the garden" it would indicate that it they always hide in the garden and if I said "they are hiding in the garden" it would mean they are doing that now. ...
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Conveying 'no bullshit'
How would be conveyed in French 'no bullshit' in a title of a document/book as for example:
https://minireference.com/
No bullshit guide to learn Mathematics
I am thinking about
Apprendre les maths ...
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Les segments d'entrevues qui ont été « songifiés », « où on a fait un “songify” » ?
Je dis à quelqu'un que je lui montre deux vidéos (1 2) et elle me demande ce que c'est et je lui explique que ce sont des segments d'entrevues qui ont été « songify »-iés (je dis songifiés, ou « un ...
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Convey the word 'field' (implying all the participants in a contest or sport)
Every March, 68 college basketball teams are invited to compete in the
NCAA tournament to determine a national champion. First, 8 teams
participate in 4 “play in” games to reduce the field to 64. In ...
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Conveying “in a nutshell”
How can one convey the idiom 'in a nutshell' (i.e. very briefly, giving only the main points) as
"What went wrong?"
"In a nutshell, everything."
We can say 'en un mot' but I am ...
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Sens du mot “patron” pour désigner client régulier (comme en anglais)
En anglais une signification du mot patron est
a customer of a shop, restaurant, etc., especially a regular one. E.g. This car park is for patrons only.
Cette signification, je crois, n'existe pas ...
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What's the difference between “j'ai un rêve / j'ai eu un rêve” and “je fais un rêve / j'ai fait un rêve” ?
The actual thing I wonder, what's the deal with "fait?"
I looked at translate but I don't think it's mean "made". If it is, then "j'ai fait un rêve" must be "I have ...
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Conveying “learn/know enough (sth) to be dangerous”
This is something that it has puzzled me for some time. I'm feeling that a word-by-word translation would not work in French. How can one convey colloquially in French:
Learn (or know) Enough to Be ...
