Matrials for translating from English into French, a short essay on translation; followed by a selection by L. Le Brun |
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If the sentence is more precise and the subject personal , the French , instead of
the passive , makes use of the reflective verb . EXAMPLES : 1 . True pleasure is
only to be found in the paths of virtue . Le vrai plaisir ne se trouve que dans les ...
If the sentence is more precise and the subject personal , the French , instead of
the passive , makes use of the reflective verb . EXAMPLES : 1 . True pleasure is
only to be found in the paths of virtue . Le vrai plaisir ne se trouve que dans les ...
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We will grant that the translator has wished to avoid repeating the verb donner ,
which occurs a little before ; but , while avoiding this repetition , he falls into
another , for he has just a few words previously used the verb appartenir . Why
then ...
We will grant that the translator has wished to avoid repeating the verb donner ,
which occurs a little before ; but , while avoiding this repetition , he falls into
another , for he has just a few words previously used the verb appartenir . Why
then ...
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As for the general facts , everybody knows that we should never , in writing
French , lose sight of the Gender of Nouns ; the placing of Adjectives , Adverbs ,
and Pronouns ; the Negative and Interrogative forms ; the Irregular Verbs ; the
right use ...
As for the general facts , everybody knows that we should never , in writing
French , lose sight of the Gender of Nouns ; the placing of Adjectives , Adverbs ,
and Pronouns ; the Negative and Interrogative forms ; the Irregular Verbs ; the
right use ...
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At the beginning of a sentence , before the verb être followed by an adjective , it
is translated by il , if the adjective is followed by the preposition de , or by the
conjunction que . EXAMPLES : It is just to pay your debts . Il est juste de payer
vos ...
At the beginning of a sentence , before the verb être followed by an adjective , it
is translated by il , if the adjective is followed by the preposition de , or by the
conjunction que . EXAMPLES : It is just to pay your debts . Il est juste de payer
vos ...
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VERBS . § 26 . Some verbs which are active in English , are neuter in French . In
such cases it would be a great mistake to translate their passive form literally . Do
not therefore say : 1 . 1 . I was very much PLEASED with that pupil . Je Fus très ...
VERBS . § 26 . Some verbs which are active in English , are neuter in French . In
such cases it would be a great mistake to translate their passive form literally . Do
not therefore say : 1 . 1 . I was very much PLEASED with that pupil . Je Fus très ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Acres answer appears began better bien brother called carried child cloth continued course cried dear death desire Dictionary Edition English EXAMPLES expression eyes face faire father followed French friends garden gave give Grammar hand head heard heart honour hour kind king knew land language leave lived London look Lord master means mind Miss morning mother nature never night Notes observed person poor present pronoun remember rest round Royal Second seemed sent SERVICE soon speak stand sure tell thing thought took tout translate turned verb voice vous vulture walked wish writing young
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Página 179 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Página 115 - Hath not a Jew eyes ? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions ? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is ? If you prick us, do we not bleed ? if you tickle us, do we not laugh ? if you poison us, do we not die ? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge 1 if we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
Página 118 - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could, and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Página 178 - He was my friend, faithful and just to me ; But Brutus says he was ambitious ; And Brutus is an honourable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome, Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill ; Did this in Caesar seem ambitious ? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept ; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff; Vet Brutus says he was ambitious ; And Brutus is an honourable man.
Página 119 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation. My Lord, your lordship's most humble, most obedient servant,
Página 180 - O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity : these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what ! weep you, when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here, Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.
Página 173 - O Caledonia ! stern and wild, meet nurse for a poetic child, • land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood, land of my sires!
Página 179 - If you have tears prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle : I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on ; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent, That day he overcame the Nervii : Look, in this place ran Cassius...
Página 180 - This was the most unkindest cut of all ; For when the noble Caesar saw him stab, Ingratitude, more strong than traitors...
Página 177 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.