French term
Mon passe-temps favori, c’est laisser passer le temps, avoir du temps, prendre s
My favourite pastime is to let time pass, to have time, take time, lose one’s time, live ....
Any help and suggestions for the wording "contretemps" ??
| 3 | to live on the off-beat |
MatthewLaSon
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| 3 | defy or even reverse time |
Verginia Ophof
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Aug 14, 2011 12:36: writeaway changed "Field" from "Art/Literary" to "Marketing" , "Field (write-in)" from "(none)" to "marketing slogan based on literary text"
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Proposed translations
to live on the off-beat
My favorite past-time is to let the time go by; to be in possession of it; to take my time as well as waste it; to live on the off-beat.
I might translate "perdre" by "waste", and "son" by "mon"; and instead of using "temps" repeatedly, perhaps put a few "its" in there. You want it to read like natural-sounding English (the semicolons help achieve this, I believe).
Gus Dudgeon deliberately dubbed in the audience clapping on the off-beat. For some unknown reason, English rock audiences always clap on the off-beat, ...
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1646
I hope this helps.
Belize
Near Native Proficiency in Source langua
Native in: English
Works in: Portuguese to English, Dutch to English, French to English
Discussion
On reflection, it doesn't quite do justice to the original - which I'm guessing was more in line with the idea of "living against time honoured traditions." Any thoughts?
:-)
And thank you Richard for filling in the quote - as a first timer, I went too quickly.
http://www.thedesecrivains.com/en/about/francais/
my favourite pastime is letting the time pass, having the time, taking my time, wasting my time, living out of time-against the current - françoise sagan, réponses.
http://luxxe-press.blogspot.com/2011/07/captured-unforgettab...
Why no points? We don't all give our time for free all the time.