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Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

yank

French translation:

exerce une attraction sur

Added to glossary by Thierry Darlis
Jul 19, 2017 00:24
6 yrs ago
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English term

yank

English to French Science Astronomy & Space
- Even though the stars are
hundreds of light years away,
they figured out a method
to determine if a star
was running at you or away from you,
at plus or minus human running speed
as the planet yanks on the star.
Proposed translations (French)
5 +1 exerce une attraction sur
4 attire
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Change log

Jul 19, 2017 01:49: writeaway changed "Field" from "Other" to "Science"

Discussion

B D Finch Jul 19, 2017:
@M.A.B. That's interesting, but doesn't change the point about the style and register.
M.A.B. Jul 19, 2017:
Well, the radial displacements of a star due to planet's pull are of meters per second or even smaller, so indeed at "human running speed"...
B D Finch Jul 19, 2017:
Register Note that the register of your source text is informal/flippant and might be directed at catching the attention of an audience of children. "To yank" is to pull abruptly and is obviously not how gravitational pull between a planet and a star would normally be described. The idea of a star travelling "at plus or minus human running speed" is also slightly off-beat. You will need to reproduce this register and style in your translation.
M.A.B. Jul 19, 2017:
This refers to the fact that when there is a planet by a star, the star is no longer 'static' because the planet's mass causes both the star and the planet to orbit the common center of mass. This center of mass is usually very close to the center of the star, but indeed the star very slightly "pulls" the planet.

Proposed translations

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exerce une attraction sur

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Note added at 6 heures (2017-07-19 07:01:07 GMT)
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Le verbe attirer donne une connotation d'aimant que je n'aime pas
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agree gayd (X)
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attire

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Reference comments

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help from (online) dicos

yank on something
to pull or tug on something. Don't yank on my hair! Yank on this rope to send a signal to the worker on the floor above.
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/yank

yank
verb [ T ] US ​
​
to pull something forcefully with a quick movement:
They yanked open the screen door to run into the kitchen for cookies.
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/yank

yank

Word forms: yanks, yanking, yanked
transitive verb/intransitive verb
If you yank someone or something somewhere, you pull them there suddenly and with a lot of force.
She yanked open the drawer.
She couldn't open the door no matter how hard she yanked.
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/yank
Peer comments on this reference comment:
agree mchd
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agree M.A.B. : pull, tug
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