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Conges terminology question
60 months ago
Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:
Language pair: |
French > English |
Subject: |
General |
Level of diffculty: |
Easy / medium |
Word or term in question: |
aucune fortune ne tient contre le coulage |
Context: |
Tout le monde ne peut être riche! Aucune fortune ne tient contre le coulage! |
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There's no such thing as a wasteproof fortune
60 months ago
Marie-Claire
wrote:
No amount of fortune will whistand waste
My comment:
Just a different suggestion
Comments by other colleagues on this answer:
60 months ago
Hi Marie-Claire! Which of these two do you prefer? "No amount of fortune can withstand wastefulness", or "No amount of fortune can withstand profligate spending?"
The asker rated this answer best
60 months ago
No fortune (/No amount of wealth) is watertight.
My comment:
I had first thought about things such as 'Even the greatest fostunes can dribble away', but that would be quite a free translation and the above has the virtue of concision.
Comments by other colleagues on this answer:
60 months ago
David Edwards Translation and Training
wrote:
(Sorry - fostunes = fortunes. I wasn't being that 'free'!)
60 months ago
No furtune can help to get out from the sabotage.
60 months ago
MatthewHallisy
wrote:
No fortune can keep from being wasted
My comment:
I think what it's saying is that the more money you have, you're going to waste it on "things". This was the sense in the text from Madame Bovary. She speaks about all the luxury furniture she sees when the only furniture someone had in their house was just one armchair, at least from her memory of her mom's house, and that was reserved for the elderly.
My references:
https://flaubert.univ-rouen.fr/jet/public/trans.php?corpus=bovary&id=845
60 months ago
no fortune holds against the deprivation
My comment:
Linguee Exemple ::We also do so at the risk of massive social deprivation and exclusion, with all of its attendant consequences for peace, social stability
My references:
Linguee
60 months ago
CMD
wrote:
No fortune can hold out against waste!
My comment:
tenir contre: (syn.) de résister = hold out against
coulage: (sens figuré/figurative meaning) perte due au gaspillage = waste
cf Dict. PETIT ROBERT et al.
60 months ago
Ffion Marianne Moyle
wrote:
Once the plug has been pulled no-one can help you
My comment:
I like the '.....wealth...ship goes down' translation too but in English we tend to say 'plug has been pulled' when for example the banks foresee a bankruptcy or similar
My references:
My own knowledge
60 months ago
martynback
wrote:
No amount of wealth can save you when the ship goes down.
Comments by other colleagues on this answer:
60 months ago
tigkit
wrote:
no wealth is worth the cost of being sunk.
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