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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Pronunciation of “Module de Young” versus “module d'Young”: Explication and difference
I understand that a native can say
Loi d'Hooke or de Hooke
depending on the level of mastering of English or/and his or her interpretation of the letter H as muet or aspiré. (in fact I posted ...
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Sauter - idiomatic meanings
Donnez au croupier la possibilité de sauter tout seul !
This use of 'sauter' seems to imply an idiomatic meaning, something like get himself in a fix, or give himself a length of rope
Or does it ...
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Is it correct to say “on n’aime pas le beaucoup de problèmes dans le monde?”
My concern is with the use of “le” or “les” before “beaucoup” to mean “the many problems.”
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Usage of the number “101” in French to mean introductory level of learning or the most basic knowledge of something
The term (101) was first introduced by the University of Buffalo in 1929.
It was used as a course catalog, the first known usage of the term by
Oxford English Dictionary. Based on this usage, the ...
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Mettre du beurre dans les épinards
After doing some light research I found idiomatic translations such as
we could use the extra
to grease the wheels
make lemons into lemonade
put butter on your bread
I'm somewhat confused. I ...
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What is the translation of moon overhead and moon underfoot in hunting context ?
For hunting purposes, some hunters follow the moon phases to hunt accordingly. There a two important moments:
When the moon is directly overhead in the sky (moon overhead)
When the moon is directly ...
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petits veinards - figurative translation
Ils ont permis à des petits veinards de devenir millionnaires du jour
au lendemain.
Google Translate gives: They made little guys become millionaires overnight.
Linguee.com translates veinard as ...
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“From Russia with Love” versus “Bons Baisers de Russie”
I know that several times the original American (or British) title of a film was conveyed differently in France (and other languages as well).
If a literal transation was done, would it have beeen :
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Conveying the meaning of “This is one hell of…”
"hell of or one hell of" is used to emphasize that something is very good, very bad, or very big.
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/a-one-hell-of
Speeking about the drumming in ...
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Comment exprimer/transposer « (like) a fly in amber » ?
Captain's log, supplemental. We remain like a fly in amber trapped in
the void. We have encountered a vessel which appears to be the USS
Yamato. All its systems are shown as functioning, yet it ...
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How to convey the sense of “scare the bejesus out of me”
Scare the bejesus out of sb: to frighten, annoy, bore, etc. someone very much [Cambridge].
Scare the bejesus out of sb: To shock or frighten one very suddenly or severely. ("Bejesus," a mild ...
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Le « face shield for medical worker » : quel terme est le plus employé, quel terme chosir ?
J'ai vu le terme « face shields for medical workers ». Le GDT privilégie « écran facial » en contexte industriel (soudure, électricité) mais l'image montre un élément couvrant la tête (comme une ...
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Translation of “un stratège dans l’âme”
Un stratège dans l’âme
Is this an official term in gambling, or a French expression? How should it be translated to English?
Original sentence is
Êtes-vous plutôt un stratège dans l'âme ?
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Comment transposer « to pull shenanigans » dans un contexte informel ?
We're the two largest trading partners anywhere in the world. It's
like one of your family members [says], 'OK, you go starve, and we'll
go feast on the rest of the meal.' I'm just so disappointed ...
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Professeur vs. Maître/Maîtresse
When (or, for which grades) should one use "professeur", and when (again, for which grades) "maître/maîtresse"? Is there any accurate difference between these words?
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What is the correct translation of “Do we go to the cinema?”
Nous allons à le cinéma!
Means "We go to the cinema". But how would I say you want to include the word "do", like a question
Do we go to the cinema?
Can I just add the word "faire" that means "do"?...
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Comment exprimer « with source tuning » (à propos d'un logiciel sous lequel on évalue la performance d'un processeur) ?
Dans un graphique on compare la performance de processeurs sous un logiciel (Weather Research and Forecasting Model) et on oppose « out of the box » à « w/ src tuning » (with source tuning). À l'...
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Comment nommer/décrire le « spiky hair » ?
J'ai à l'esprit une coiffure plutôt générique, le spiky hair (les « cheveux spikés »), avec les pointes vers le haut, que ce soit naturellement vu la coupe (brosse etc.) ou coiffés de cette manière.
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Comment traduire « arbitrary code execution » ?
On a le arbitrary code execution dans le domaine de la sécurité informatique dont on dit d'une partie dans une ébauche d'article sur Wikipédia qu'elle consiste en l'« action à faire faire à une ...
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Comment exprimer le « unhoard » de performances vidéoludiques ?
Le contexte est celui de la performance vidéoludique (speedrun) où l'on peut trouver un emploi de jargon d'usage très limité en langue anglaise: le unhoard et en contexte ça ressemble à la ...
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“I apologize for the inconvenience”, “Je m'excuse pour l'inconvenient” et “Je tiens à m'excuser pour la gêne occasionnée”
Dans quel contexte
"I apologize for the inconvenience"
peut-être rendue par
"Je m'excuse pour l'inconvenient"
et
dans quel contexte par
"Je tiens à m'excuser pour la gêne occasionnée"
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Usage of “hier” to convey “ yesterday” as in “I need this report yesterday”
Yesterday has an idiomatic usage which is basically a synonym for "as soon as possible".
I need those reports, and I need them yesterday. ≈ I need them ASAP.
We want to see them in a concert. ...
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Comment exprimer « to flip the script » ?
J'ai entendu l'expression anglaise (to) flip the script, « (slang) to reverse a situation, especially by doing something unexpected » (Wiktionnaire). Le contexte c'était la compétition et le style des ...
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Alexander the Great quotation: “I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.”
The other day I had a conversation with some colleagues about the role of teachers in the proper education of a student. I wanted to quote Alexander the Great:
I am indebted to my father for living,...
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Conveying the idea of “to hell and back”
To hell and back: through a very difficult or unpleasant situation
that often lasts for a long time.
E.g.
I have been to hell and back since my wife became ill.
Je suis allé en enfer et en ...
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“Basic conflict” en français?
"Basic conflict" semble être un faux ami (ça ne veut pas dire "un conflit basique/peu complexe").
On le voit dans cette étude :
Harmful traditions create a basic conflict. [...] This is the basic
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“Ridiculously” (expressing absurdly or unbelievably good, bad, crazy, etc.) and “ridiculement”
Remembering Rush's Ridiculously Good Drummer
ridiculous[ ri-dik-yuh-luhs ] (https://www.dictionary.com/browse/ridiculously)
1. adjective causing or worthy of ridicule or derision;
absurd; ...
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“droits de l'homme” or “droits humains”?
The question is provoked by a title in Le Monde today: "Human Rights Watch dénonce l’offensive de la Chine contre les droits humains".
One of the subjects discussed in the comments to this article ...
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Is “est bien” a valid translation of the word “indeed”?
If someone asks you to confirm if a book is written in Spanish, and you want to respond by saying "Yes, the book is indeed written in Spanish", is it valid to say "Oui, le livre est bien écrit en ...
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How to say sorry for the delayed reply?
Google offers the literal translation "Toutes mes excuses pour le retard dans la réponse" for "Apologies for my delay in responding", but does this sound correct, idiomatically?
"Désolé de ne pas ...
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Innocuous English noun phrase that when said in a French accent is offensive phrase in French
Inria named a theorem proving assistant "Coq".
Now, everytime an undergrad in 'Merica uses this theorem prover, they waste like 3 minutes trying not to say the name of it.
Since I cannot change the ...
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Comment rendre « meaningful expressions » ?
State which of the following expressions are meaningful in the indicial notation.
Indiquer quelles formules parmi les suivantes ont du sens dans la notation indicielle.
Je me demande s'il existe ...
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How do you say “on the air” for radio broadcasting [closed]
Very often, while listening to live DJs on radio stations I hear the phrase written as heard radifandit'r, my first thoughts were that it means radio van d'etre or radio dans l'etre, so I concluded ...
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Comment dire en français « You go to your church and I'll go to mine. » ?
Comment pourrait-on rendre cet adage en français ?
You go to your church and I'll go to mine.
Cette formule, apparemment d'origine américaine, est parfois utilisée par des américains pour exprimer ...
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Translation of “It is found to be”
The echelon form of the matrix is found to be given by...
La forme échelonnée de la matrice se trouve être donnée par...
I have a feeling that the French turn would sound a bit weird to native ...
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Usage of “tour de force”
In English one can use a tour de force speaking about a display of a skill, or ingenuity. For instance,
In 1943 in a tour de force of mathematical physics, Lars Onsager solved the 2D Ising Model.
(...
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Conveying the idea of « go figure »
En grec nous avons une expression « τρέχα (https://www.wordreference.com/gren/%CF%84%CF%81%CE%AD%CF%87%CE%B1) γύρευε (see, look for, search for, figure out) » (trecha gyreve) ; on le dit de quelque ...
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Idiom for “Ahead of its time”
Is En avance sur son temps idiomatic in French as Ahead of its time in English? For instance,
Five Movies with Special Effects Ahead of Their Time.
Cinq films avec effets spéciaux en avance ...
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Quel mot français se rapprocherait de « apricity »?
Je cherche un mot de français ou d'ancien français, ou de français régional, pour traduire « apricity ».
« Apricity » a disparu (quasiment) de la langue anglaise moderne, mais réapparaît parfois.
Il ...
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How and when was the name “Pays de Galles” constructed in French?
I am asking this in relation to this Linguistics question: When was the name of Wales first mentioned in Romanian, and in which form?.
At the same time I have posted this on English SE: Etymology of ...
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“Sequence of topics”: French equivalent
What is the French equivalent of "sequence of topics"? Can one use séquence des sujets or thèmes traités?
Below I provide an example of usage of the English expression.
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Conveying computationally (talking about algorithms; e.g. computationally ineficient/expensive) avec computationnellement
La méthode de Cramer [1] est insuffisante sur le plan des calculs. (computationally inefficient).
La méthode de Cramer est insuffisante computationnellement.
La méthode de Cramer est ...
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« Surprisingly, perhaps,… » et « Étonnamment, peut-être,… »
Surprisingly, perhaps, Matlab gives a solution to this over-determined system.
Étonnamment, peut-être, Matlab donne une solution à ce système surdéterminé.
« Étonnamment » peut-il être employé ...
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Conveying the meaning of “Last nail in the coffin” with “(le) dernier clou dans le cercueil”
The other day, I was trying to convey the meaning of the
Last nail in the coffin.
The literal translation
Dernier clou dans le cercueil.
seems to be unknown to natifs. (Some students didn't ...
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“Inline function”
I was searching several sources like
French programming and software terminology?
What is the French term for "inline function" ? Fonction en ligne me paraît faux. Peut-on employer *fonction inline" ...
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Elsewhere in the beginning of a sentence
In this notes we study the numerical solution. Elsewhere, we have studied the analytical one.
Dans ces notes, nous étudions la solution numérique. Ailleurs, nous avons présenté la solution ...
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Comment traduire « in-place upgrade » : sur place ?
En informatique on trouve le terme « in-place upgrade », une mise à niveau sans supprimer l'installation existante ni les données associées, généralement par opposition au « clean install » (l'...
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Translation for “Readability is one thing, legibility is another”?
J'ai trouvé la phrase « Readability is one thing, legibility is another » dans le livre Agile Documentation et j'aimerais bien avoir deux mots distincts de même sens que ceux en anglais, puisque la ...
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Comment traduire « … to social attacks they receive » : cohérence ?
Research points to users being significantly more susceptible to
social attacks they receive on mobile devices. [...] (2019 Data Breach Investigations Report, Verizon Business, p. 14)
À la lecture ...
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« Social engineering » : « piratage » et/ou « fraude » ou autrement ?
Comme équivalent de social engineering, le Grand dictionnaire terminologique (OQLF) donne « piratage/fraude psychologique » et déconseille le calque ingénierie sociale qui ne rendrait pas adéquatement ...
