English translation of "défaits à grands coups de" - "wiped out by waves of..."

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162 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	French > English
Subject:	Other
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	défaits à grands coups de
Context:	L'histoire nous montre que les empires, les nations, se sont construits, ou défaits,...
Keywords:	...à grands coups de conquêtes militaires.

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162 months ago

Youssef wrote:

Through violent military conquests

My comment:

à grands coups should be normally translated such way

162 months ago

Marie-Claire wrote:

or undone by major military conquests.

My comment:

Not sure about "undone" (as undone by their own ambitious military conquests) I thought that the scale of the military conquest might have contributed to their demise.

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an overheated brain.

162 months ago

Amanda Haste PhD, DipTrans(IoLET), MCIL, CL wrote:

...empires and nations are built and destroyed through great waves of military conquests/action

162 months ago

Amanda Haste PhD, DipTrans(IoLET), MCIL, CL wrote:

wiped out by waves of...

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162 months ago

Amanda Haste PhD, DipTrans(IoLET), MCIL, CL wrote:

empires and nations have been built and destoyed through repeated military conquests

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162 months ago

Geoff Bing wrote:

Yes, but there is no idea of "repeated" for each empire, rather for the whole process of building and destruction. It's "major" or something like that - "empires and nations have been built and destoyed through major military conquests"

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