Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
arbres...et d'ombres portées noires
English translation:
trees...which cast black shadows on the ground
Added to glossary by
Conor McAuley
Mar 16, 2007 11:07
17 yrs ago
French term
France
Excellence, Expertise & Experience
Native in: English (Variants: UK, Scottish, Irish, British, Wales / Welsh)
Works in: French to English, English
ombres portées noires
French to English
Art/Literary
Poetry & Literature
Introduction to a book
"Sous un ciel d’un bleu impossible et un soleil sûrement né d’une palette magique, il y avait une place de toutes les couleurs, la place Sidi Baïan, bordée par des arbres d’un vert flamboyant et ***d’ombres portées noires***."
I've got "shadows worn black" but maybe I've misunderstood, and I welcome alternate suggestions.
(Also if anybody could tell me what country or city the text is about I would be grateful, the client hasn't given me much to go on as yet.)
I've got "shadows worn black" but maybe I've misunderstood, and I welcome alternate suggestions.
(Also if anybody could tell me what country or city the text is about I would be grateful, the client hasn't given me much to go on as yet.)
Proposed translations
(English)
Proposed translations
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black/dark cast shadows
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thanks Francis and everybody who contributed. See the glossary entry for the exact way in which I worded this."
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2 mins
Diane de Cicco
France
France
Native in French
&
English
France
Specialty: Biology, Chemistry, Medicine
Native in: English 
, French
Works in: English to French, French to English
Related KudoZ points
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28
black projected shadows
"portées" ici veut dire "projetées"
Peer comment(s):
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Didier Martiny
: En effet, portées veut dire projetées; le terme usuel en infographie est 'cast shadows', si cela peut aider de la part d'un francophone.
1 hr
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Yes, "cast" is the consecrated term, you're absolutely right
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5 mins
John Di Rico
France
France
Native in French
&
English
France
Legal, Marketing, Finance and IT
Native in: English , French
Works in: French to English
cloaked by black shadows
maybe more poetic than worn
47 mins
shadows at their blackest/darkest
I think from the context that it's in the midday sun, when shadows are a dense black....that was my immediate reaction on reading it, as in 'un fer porté au rouge'
2 hrs
Carol Gullidge
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Native in English
Specializes in field
United Kingdom
poetically precise prose with... panache
Native in: English 
Works in: French to English, Spanish to English, English
Related KudoZ points
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80
contrastingly/strikingly black shadows
grammatical transposition (adj-> advb) seems to work here, although the adjectives "contrasting/striking" would I think do just as well
15 hrs
shoadows wearing black
Since this is a description of a place, the present tense would seem to be a better fit.
20 hrs
intense black shadows
In the sense of striking, focussed, bearing intensely.
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