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| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4276 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 97 of 136 08 August 2014 at 2:35am | IP Logged |
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OK, I want to play! I made an attempt on the next 250 words in the story. I
translated quickly, literally, and without a dictionary. I did try and use the most natural sounding English tense rather than trying to recreate the French tenses. 88% Automatic: 220 words 9% Decipherable (6 phrases; actual word count = 22) 3% Unclear (8 words) I might have a lower comprehension level with other books; I've read two of Jean Giono's novels, and so am already familiar with his style. What's interesting is that there were some phrases, such as sa bergerie, dans une ondulation du plateau, where I have a perfectly good vision of what Giono is describing, but where I stumbled over an English translation. I included in my "decipherable" count the phrases where I had a general but not specific idea of what the phrase meant; or where I had to read twice to catch the meaning. _______________________________________ C'était un beau jour de juin avec grand soleil, mais sur ces terres sans abri et hautes dans le ciel, le vent soufflait avec une brutalité insupportable. Ses grondements dans les carcasses des maisons étaient ceux d'un fauve dérangé dans son repas. It was a beautiful sunny June day, but on these lands without trees and hautes (clouds?) in the sky, the wind blew with an unbearable brutality. Its groans in the carcasses of the houses were those of a mad beast (?) disturbed during its meal. Il me fallut lever le camp. A cinq heures de marche de là, je n'avais toujours pas trouvé d'eau et rien ne pouvait me donner l'espoir d'en trouver. C'était partout la même sécheresse, les mêmes herbes ligneuses. Il me sembla apercevoir dans le lointain une petite silhouette noire, debout. Je la pris pour le tronc d'un arbre solitaire. A tout hasard, je me dirigeai vers elle. C'était un berger. Une trentaine de moutons couchés sur la terre brûlante se reposaient près de lui. It was necessary that I break camp. Five hours walk from there, I had still not found water and nothing was giving me the hope of finding any. Everywhere was the same dryness, the same herbs ligneuses. I seemed to perceive in the distance a small black silhouette, debout. I took it for the trunk of a solitary tree. Randomly, I changed my course towards it. It was a shepherd. About thirty sheep, lying on the brutal earth, rested close to him. Il me fit boire à sa gourde et, un peu plus tard, il me conduisit à sa bergerie, dans une ondulation du plateau. Il tirait son eau - excellente - d'un trou naturel, très profond, au-dessus duquel il avait installé un treuil rudimentaire. He had me drink from his gourd and, a little later, he led me to his bergerie (shepherd’s house?), in an ondulation on the plateau. He drew some water – excellent – from a natural trou, very deep, above which he had installed a rudimentary treuil. Cet homme parlait peu. C'est le fait des solitaires, mais on le sentait sûr de lui et confiant dans cette assurance. C'était insolite dans ce pays dépouillé de tout. Il n'habitait pas une cabane mais une vraie maison en pierre où l'on voyait très bien comment son travail personnel avait rapiécé la ruine qu'il avait trouvé là à son arrivée. Son toit était solide et étanche. Le vent qui le frappait faisait sur les tuiles le bruit de la mer sur les plages. The man spoke little. It is the nature of solitary men, but one feels sure of him, and comfortable in that assurance. It is insolite (not respectable? rude?) in that land denatured of everything. He was not living in a cabin but in an actual stone house where one saw very well how his own work had rapiécé (repaired?) the ruin that he had found on his arrival. The roof was solid and étanche. The wind which blew against it made against the tuiles (tiles?) the sound of the ocean on the sand. _______________________________________ I'm open to corrections if I missed anything egregious! Edited by kanewai on 08 August 2014 at 2:39am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
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