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Conges terminology question

207 months ago

Brenda Galvan (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	French > English
Subject:	Arts / Entertainment
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	voir les maux auxquels soi-même
Context:	« Il y a de la douceur à voir les maux auxquels soi-même on échappe »

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207 months ago

wrote:

There is a certain kind of seet satisfaction/pleasure when one sees/thinks about all the bad situations one has managed to escape.

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207 months ago

wrote:

"sweet satisfaction"

207 months ago

Libbett Watson wrote:

There is a sweetness in recognizing those hardships from which one has escaped.

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207 months ago

wrote:

The switch to the perfect is probably justified. However, I really think it's about more than "recognizing" the hardships (which might not be the best word here); I think it is about actually seeing them. A form of <i>Schadenfreude</i>, as we say in English.

207 months ago

www.buero-garisch.de wrote:

There lies an almost meek mildness in watching the evil things that we are trying to excape from.

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207 months ago

wrote:

There are only two problems with this answer. One is that it is nonsense; the other is that it has negligible connexion with the original sentence.

207 months ago

Aharon303 wrote:

It is sweet to contemplate the hardships you escape from

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207 months ago

Lucy-Anne & Pol wrote:

There is a certain sweetness in noting what harm/evil/difficulty one escapes/avoids

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207 months ago

wrote:

I think it is actually about "seeing" them in the full sense: actually observing the suffering of those who weren't so lucky.

207 months ago

Charles Ferguson wrote:

There's a certain amount of consolation when you think about the bad breaks you've managed to avoid yourself.

My comment:

A loose translation and the register may not be right.

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207 months ago

wrote:

In the absence of further context, it is very dangerous to change things so much. In particular, "consolation" is drawing a very long bow, and does not strike me as even a possible sense for <i>douceur</i> here.

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