taunted with a breezy

04:06 Feb 15, 2019 

Le problème avec la proposition "not French" était le "é" dans "il se fera nargué" - ce qui a été corrigé dans la note que vous avez ajoutée après les commentaires de mchd et d’Hélène.

Quant à "froidement", c’est évident qu’il n’a rien à faire là puisque "breezy" = désinvolte, enjoué, jovial... Mais on peut maintenant constater que, finalement, le contexte suffit bien pour comprendre le sens de l’énoncé (même si des détails seraient appréciés!) et cela, sans traiter "breezy" séparément, loin de là! Comme Victoria l’a fait remarquer, séparément, chacun des mots se traduit facilement; insérer le groupe verbal dans la phrase est plus... sorcier, on dirait!

20:42 Feb 14, 2019 

I'm pleased to see you using the same "not French" construction 'se faire narguer' that I used, but sadly displeases our colleague mchd! Who for some reason that escapes me seems to believe that my suggestion was in some way 'pronomial' (which it isn't!)

However, I have to take issue with your use of 'froidement' to translate the notion of 'breezy' — that's not at all what it means; it could easily be 'cheerily' or 'sunnily' — the idea of being nonchalantly dismissive, perhaps. Certainly nothing of 'coldness' about it; perhaps a whiff of 'désinvolture'...

20:37 Feb 14, 2019 

We cannot help you better, because we don't have enough context!
We need to know what this book is about, what it is seeking to say at this poont, and to some extent perheaps from whose perspective it is vieiwng the situation. Only with this sort of information can we then help you to be a little more creative...

15:39 Feb 14, 2019 

[L’élève] [L’étudiant] [Celui] qui éprouverait des difficultés avec un problème [risque de][est susceptible de] [pourrait] se faire narguer froidement d’un "Allons! C’est pas sorcier!".

15:33 Feb 13, 2019 

I quite agree! understanding exactly where the problem lies helps everyone to see just what it is asker needs to know — and that's especially important where there are 2 on the face of it simple terms; and doubly so as we don't know the wider context and the overall tone of the piece.
As I have said below, I don't believe this is authorizing people to behave in this way, or advising them to do so, but rather explaining from the point of view of the poor victim how they may perceive what is said to them.

13:50 Feb 13, 2019 

How is this a useful contribution to a question? Why would you analyse the askers difficulty?

13:47 Feb 13, 2019 

I'm wondering exactly where your difficulty is: "taunted with a breezy" means nothing on its own; both "taunt" and "breezy" are in the dictionary. Is it a problem of parsing? Maybe at first look you were misled by the colon - which should be a comma - and didn't realise that "breezy" in fact qualifies the tone of "Come on, it's not rocket science"?