Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Dec 9, 2011 18:50
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French term
à bras le corps
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French to English
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Généreuse sur scène, la chanteuse vit véritablement ce qu’elle chante et rentre dans ses émotions à bras le corps, aimant à passer de sa voix la plus chaude et ronde à sa voix la plus délirante, déchirante, en passant par un brin de nostalgie et une touche de tendresse, selon les humeurs...
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 +2 | boldly |
cc in nyc
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| 4 | wholeheartedly |
Nikki Scott-Despaigne
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| 4 | unashamedly |
Bourth (X)
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| 4 | embraces |
jasonwkingsley
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Dec 23, 2011 06:20: cc in nyc Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
+2
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boldly
And I might use "confronts" as the verb.
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Nikki Scott-Despaigne
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wholeheartedly
'A bras le corps' means that she gives it all she's got, throws herself into it, invests fully, something along those lines, thus wholeheartedly for the expression, BUT...as for a suggested rendering of your original :
"rentrer dans les émotions à bras le corps"
"In a generous performance, the singer sings what she feels and feels what she sings..."
"rentrer dans les émotions à bras le corps"
"In a generous performance, the singer sings what she feels and feels what she sings..."
4 hrs
unashamedly
This is the Brit in me speaking, you must realize, for whom expressing emotion is generally something to feel ashamed about.
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jasonwkingsley
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Works in: French to English, Spanish to English, Italian to English
embraces
could be 'and embraces her emotions' ...shorten the phrase, 'rentre' is left out but understood...
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