English translation of "avant que l'on reprenne cette personne à agir" - "quite a bit of time must have elapsed before they caught that woman doing that again"

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142 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:	avant que l'on reprenne cette personne à agir
Context:	Le chien avait sans doute subtilisé la chaussure alors que la dame l'avait discrètement...
Keywords:	...mais imprudemment retirée sous la table pendant la réunion. Du temps avait dû passer avant que l'on reprenne cette personne à agir de la sorte, elle qui avait remis dans l'antichambre de Dominique sa seconde chaussure après que le chien, penaud, l'avait déposée à ses pieds....Dog took off with a woman's hoe after she let it fall off her foot while she was sitting around a long desk, during a meeting.

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141 months ago

wrote:

quite a long time had elapsed until this person was caught again acting this way

142 months ago

wrote:

A certain amount of time must have elapsed prior to our noticing this person's doings

142 months ago

Josephine Cassar wrote:

quite some time must have elapsed before the someone noticed what the woman had done

My comment:

before the woman was caught

142 months ago

Josephine Cassar wrote:

quite some time must have elapsed before the someone noticed what the woman had done

My comment:

before the woman was caught

Comments by other colleagues on this answer:

142 months ago

wrote:

Sorry, but this is a "contresens". "On ne m'y reprendra plus"means:"je ne le referai plus, cela m'a servi de leçon".

142 months ago

Marie-Claire wrote:

I've been thinking... I like this answer best because we could drop "doing that again" and the context clearly indicates that she makes a habit of slipping her shoes off. "Doing that again" is just a bit too strong; "was caught" is sufficient, I think, and implies that she is careless and does it all the time.

142 months ago

Josephine Cassar wrote:

quite a bit of time must have elapsed before they caught that woman doing that again

My comment:

This part of the text seems to be badly written: the phrasing is not fluent enough and i would have written eut déposée instead of "avait déposée. For the break in the sentence (",elle qui...), I suggest: "__indeed she had...

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142 months ago

Marie-Claire wrote:

Yes, that is the meaning

142 months ago

Marie-Claire wrote:

I like it... perhaps turn it into a passive "before the woman was caught"? "They" is not referring to anyone in particular, and the focus is on the woman being caught.

142 months ago

Marie-Claire wrote:

Yes, that is the meaning

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