nuits étoilées
English translation: starry, starry nights
| 09:57 Nov 17, 2011 |
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| 4 | starry, starry nights |
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| 3 +1 | nights full of fireworks |
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| 3 | star spangled |
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| 3 | nights to remember - or not remember in some cases! |
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| 3 | high/speed nights (amphetamines) |
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| 2 | night after sleepless, frenzied night |
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| 1 | crazy/hectic nights |
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| 1 | pie-eyed |
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star spangled Explanation: This could be in reference to drugs like lsd... |
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nights to remember - or not remember in some cases! Explanation: might be one possibility... or "nights to remember - or not remember as the case may be!" Examples: "Vote for me and i WILL arrange many nights to remember (or not remember as the case may be after one ..." http://www.google.de/url?sa=t&rct=j&q="nights to remember - ... "I have done the yacht event a few times myself and there have always been some nights to remember (or not remember.)" http://www.google.de/url?sa=t&rct=j&q="nights to remember - ... |
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crazy/hectic nights Explanation: - |
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starry, starry nights Explanation: Especially if you see understanding the reference to this as relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dipFMJckZOM What the author actually means is hard to say, but "starry" must carry at least as much imagery and emotive weight as étoilé, even if it's something as mundane as the contrast between a drunken night out on the town, most of which is spent in a state of oblivion (nuit blanche?), and a night of excitement, new encounters and discoveries, sparkling intellectual conversation, as Jacques Dutronc might have experienced : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WoJnThJG-s&feature=related |
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pie-eyed Explanation: As in up all night & seeing the stars...drunk basically....just a suggestion, may be wrong but that's how I read it. |
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8 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1nights full of fireworks Explanation: I think there could be a play on words intended along the lines of 'nights full of firework stars', from people celebrating, and 'full of fireworks' in the sense of being full of excitement. See the previous Kudoz entry on this very topic. Reference: http://www.proz.com/kudoz/french_to_english/tourism_travel/1... |
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night after sleepless, frenzied night Explanation: to party night after sleepless, frenzied (or delirious?) night. Has the idea of 'enchaîner' although it doesn't really deal with 'pour certains'... |
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high/speed nights (amphetamines) Explanation: "Poussière d'étoile : Nom donné couramment aux amphétamines." Peut-être à d'autres drogues, mais je ne pense pas : "L’ecstasy se présente généralement sous la forme de comprimés de couleurs et de formes diverses où sont souvent gravés des motifs variés (cœur, étoile, papillon, trèfle, etc.)." A confirmer selon le contexte ! -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 day12 hrs (2011-11-18 22:46:21 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- "Pour certains" renforce l'idée de drogue, ou du moins de quelque chose qui n'est pas louable. Reference: http://pierre.top.free.fr/drg/lexique.htm Reference: http://www.toxquebec.com/livre_drogues/fr/index_ecstasy.html |
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