ligne de force
English translation: distinctive feature
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| 06:21 Apr 7, 2009 |
| French to English translations [PRO] Tech/Engineering - Other / plans for new power station | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: B D Finch France Local time: 07:41 | ||||||
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| 4 +1 | distinctive feature |
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| 3 +1 | poetic |
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| 3 | another landmark |
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| 3 | spirit / mainstream |
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| 3 | reinforces the prevailing perspective (lines) |
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peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1poetic Explanation: What they seem to be saying is that if you have a blot on the landscape already, adding another blot to it is a definite improvement! Once that is established, I don't think it really matters very much how you say it! " ... strengthens the powerful lines of the landscape". I'm sure they say somewhere too that this powerstation is environmentally friendly, if only because putting it in a pre-established industrial setting is better than plonking it in the middle of some untouched landscape. |
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another landmark Explanation: its bulk will be absorbed and it will constitute a further landmark of similar ilk to the rest to be taken on face value or read as sarcasm (cf. Bourth) |
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spirit / mainstream Explanation: It's like the principal trend of the area. 'les lignes de force' = spirit / mainstream I suppose that both variants are possible. Reference: http://www.wordreference.com/enfr/mainstream |
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reinforces the prevailing perspective (lines) Explanation: or skylines if relevant / |
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2 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1distinctive feature Explanation: "The view of the cityscape is highly scenically attractive and displays Edinburgh within ... its distinctive skyline features are not visually prominent, ..." citydev-portal.edinburgh.gov.uk/portal/getEdmDoc?docid=62888022&ext=pdf&page=9 Not gently merging into the landscape, but blatantly asserting the industrial landscape or cityscape by reinforcing the existing distinctive features. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 3 hrs (2009-04-07 09:45:53 GMT) Post-grading -------------------------------------------------- Glad that it helped. |
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