épouser le personnage

English translation: become one with the character

13:46 Jul 6, 2009

French to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / memories

French term or phrase: épouser le personnage

Hello!

Could you help me? I can't pick out smth good, "to get inside the character" or "personify" seems unemotional.

The context:

.. la première chanson, qui nous parle d'une "cité des anges" et à travers laquelle Mr X se plait à *épouser le personnage* qu'il nomme "the devil" avec un passage où sa voix mue en faveur de celui "auquel vous ne pourrez échapper".

P.S. The quotations are in the text.
Thanks in advance!!

svetlana cosquéric KudoZ activity Questions: 997 (none open) (72 closed without grading) Answers: 2143 France
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English translation:become one with the character

Explanation:
I like the use of "become" as it suggests a transition...

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Ysabel812

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4 +10

embrace the character

Colin Rowe

4 +2

become one with the character

Ysabel812

make the character his own

jmleger

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1 min confidence:

make the character his own

Explanation:
par exemple

jmleger
Local time: 23:09
Native speaker of:

French
PRO pts in category: 4

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Asker: Thank you, jmleger!

4 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +10

embrace the character

Explanation:
One possibility:

"I think it's important that with any character in acting or anything to *embrace the character* and become the character, but also make it your own because ..."

http://www.mediablvd.com/magazine/the_news/celebrity/wwe_div...

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Or:

"become the character"

(see same reference)

Colin Rowe
Germany
Local time: 06:09
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thank you, Colin!

15 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

become one with the character

Explanation:
I like the use of "become" as it suggests a transition...

Ysabel812
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

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