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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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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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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L'adjectif « gender-affirming » se traduit-il par « d'affirmation de genre » ?
Je m'intéresse surtout à l'adjectif dans « gender-affirming (chest reconstruction surgery) » (Macmillan : ayant trait à un processus... ; Wiktionary : soutenir ou encourager...). Je l'ai trouvé dans ...
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La « crosse amovible de mitraillage/tir par rafales » : emploi et autres propositions ?
Je lisais qu'un an après la tuerie de la Saint-Valentin à Parkland en Floride (États-Unis) on avait réussi à faire étendre « en décembre l'interdiction des bump stocks à l'ensemble des États-Unis » ...
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Convey 'bleeding edge'
Bleeding edge, derived from cutting edge, has a negative connotation. Bleeding edge implies that a product or service is so new that its adoption could be harmful.
Bleeding edge refers to a product ...
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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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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 ...
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