Dec 21, 2020 21:58
3 yrs ago
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Italian term

cabriolet

Italian to English Other Construction / Civil Engineering Neodinamismo
Il rudere, che gli americani nel ‘44 avevano deciso di trasformare in un cabriolet con un attacco aereo

Discussion

Tomasso Dec 22, 2020:
una domanda Rudere de Montecassino, Monte Trochio??

Da Wiki Durante la seconda guerra mondiale, il luogo divenne celebre come teatro dell'omonima battaglia di Cassino, svoltasi nel 1944, e che provocò fra l'altro la*** distruzione del complesso*** a causa dei bombardamenti ***alleati.*** L'abbazia fu successivamente ricostruita dopo la fine del conflitto.
Marco Solinas Dec 21, 2020:
To Phil Good question. We know it was a building, not necessarily a house.
philgoddard Dec 21, 2020:
Do we know it was a house?
Marco Solinas Dec 21, 2020:
To Asker It means that the Americans destroyed the roof of the house. You can keep the metaphor or find an equivalent one or you can simply say that the hose was made roofless by American bombs.

Proposed translations

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render topless

here essential to keep the light tone of the original. and the literal translations - ragtop, convertible - would confuse the reader in this context
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agree Charlotte Fleming
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agree martini
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neutral DDim : featuring topless waitresses or entertainers? Without clothes on upper body?
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hardtop

decided to take the hardtop off
or bomb the hardtop off the decrepit abbey
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agree DDim : I agree: the Phrase remains clear and sounds natural, the automobile metaphor is preserved.
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convertible

In Italian cabriolet: decappottabile. I think it's a way of saying that the Americans destroyed the roof of the building.
Peer comment(s):

agree Marina O'Toole
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roofless building

American air strikes turned the buildling into a roofless building
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