Aussi ne sera-on pas etonne que le pieton n'y manque pas de superbe
English translation: Not surprising therefore that the people in the street have a certain swagger in their step
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peer agreement (net): -1it's also no surprise that the pedestrian is not without a certain... Explanation: arrogance/charm/magnificence, haughtiness etc -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 15 mins (2011-07-12 14:59:36 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- @DLyons Was also thinking 'person walking in the street' but just left it as pedestrian as not much context. |
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17 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): -1
peer agreement (net): -1| Aussi ne sera-on pas etonne que le pieton n\'y manque pas de superbe Not surprisingly, the people in the streets have a subtle elegance Explanation: Or a definite sartorial flair, or anything along those lines. |
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40 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1Not surprising therefore that the people in the street have a certain swagger in their step Explanation: they're probably so far up their own proverbial that they haven't seen daylight in years |
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53 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1| Aussi ne sera-t-on pas etonne que le pieton n'y manque pas de superbe So it's not surprising that people strolling by have plenty of panache. Explanation: Or "people strolling on the street." Just another possibility. |
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1 hr confidence: peer agreement (net): -1
peer agreement (net): -1Not unexpectedly, pedestrians there do not fail to exhibit the marks of their (social) rank) Explanation: ... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2011-07-12 16:01:01 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- ...To exhibit in their postures and gestures... |
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Hardly surprising is it, then, to observe a touch of the debonair strolling the pavement Explanation: Some inversion introduced to maintain the style, and a shift from pedestrians to pavements -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 4 hrs (2011-07-12 18:52:54 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- sorry please amend to plural "pavements" Reference: http://www.division2.com.au/news.aspx?skip=40 |
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13 hrs confidence:
So a pretentious pedestrian shall come as no surprise here Explanation: Shouldn't it read "Aussi ne sera-t-on pas étonné que le piéton n'y manque de superbe" Aussi = So then? Inversion is common if a sentence starts with "aussi" (it's not a question, but a declarative sentence) n'y manque de superbe = doesn't lack any pretentiousness there (y = the place in question) I said "shall" as it appears to a quite a formal register (give it "style" lol). I hope this helps. |
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16 hrs confidence:
It should come as no surprise that the man in the street is not lacking in elegance. Explanation: The number of possibilities is endless. It would have been nice to know whether the phrase in question comes before or after the extract psoted as context. I have deliberately ignored translating "aussi" here. Without the position in the whole paragraph of the sentence itself, I may be wrong, but I suspect that "aussi" is not even here as a linking word, almost for decoration which is often the case! Explantaion of choices made : "it should come as no surprise..." - standard expression in UK English, the "should" implying mildly that those not in the know may indeed be surprised. Here the reader is invited to join the ranks of those who have understood the social code. "the man in the street" - a deliberately ordinary expression used to describe the common mortal, accentuating the point of what is ordinary here may belies the underlying modern chic. "not lacking..." - Admittedly a bit of a claque on the French original but which works equally well in English here in my view. |
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