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Conges terminology question
140 months ago
Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:
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Language pair: |
French > English |
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Subject: |
General |
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Level of diffculty: |
Easy / medium |
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Word or term in question: |
attitudes anodines ne signalent son alterité |
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Context: |
Des manquements aussi grossiers aux consignes de sécurité causeraient sa perte, à moins qu'à l'inverse, ces attitides anodines ne signalent son alterité radicale à la Grand maison, son innocence si l'on pouvait ainsi s'exprimer. Encore qu'aucun délit pénal ne caractérisât son actvité. Etienne se sentait étrangement coupable de ce qu'il faisait bien que rien d'illégal n'y entrât, sous l'angale juridique, ni rien de choquant, sous l'angle moral. Rien de particulièrement choquant, de radicalement choquant en tout cas. |
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unless , on the contrary, those (seemingly) unsignificant attitudes betray the fact he did not belong at all the Grande Maison
My comment:
Is Etienne a misfit or a kind of rebel? The word "innocence" behind tends to confirm the former interpretation.
Comments by other colleagues on this answer:
140 months ago
Jennifer White 
wrote:
"signalent" is a subjunctive, and should be translated as a past tense here.
The asker rated this answer best
140 months ago
Jennifer White
wrote:
à moins que...........ne = unless
My comment:
Not sure what the problem is but the phrase you give cannot be translated in isolation. Start with "A moins que............."
140 months ago
Jennifer White
wrote:
Insignificant attitudes not indicatiing his otherness
140 months ago
samvallon
wrote:
his harmless attitudes report his radical otherness
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