Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
super low floor (S.L.F.)
French translation:
plancher bas
English term
United Kingdom
Super Low Floor
| 5 | bus à plancher bas |
Bourth (X)
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| 5 +1 | bus surbaisse |
sarahl (X)
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Non-PRO (1): Laurent M. C (X)
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Proposed translations
bus à plancher bas
<<Notre volonté : des bus à plancher bas avec rampe rétractable>>
[http://www.autonomia.org/pet_bus.htm]
<<En 1994, Heuliez bus sort son premier bus à plancher bas intégral et entièrement accessible aux handicapés>>
[http://www.trans-com.net/dossier_transport/dossier_citybus.a...]
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Note added at 2003-10-12 20:25:02 (GMT)
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To me, surbaissé means that the bottom of the bus is not far from the ground (think of those signs at some level crossings warning drivers of low-slung cars to beware), not that the floor is close to the ground (\"conventional\" buses have a lot of empty space underneath the floor; in coaches, this is the baggage hold). The bottom of a low-floor bus is no lower to the ground than that of a conventional bus.
Maybe \"bus à plancher extra bas\" in your case.
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Note added at 2003-10-13 10:21:28 (GMT) Post-grading
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I wanted to respond appropriately to Polyglots.US\'s comment below online but the format does not cater for this, so I went to their profile to reply offline (visit it, it\'s one of those eye-openers). However Polyglot.US does not wish to receive email via its Proz profile and there is no other way of responding. Having seen their profile, anything I might now be tempted to write in public might be considered libellous, so I shall refrain, other than to point out that they themselves use the words \"sad and pathetic\" in a text that, quite apart from the content, illustrates that they themselves need a decent French-to-English translator.
bus surbaisse
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Bourth (X)
: Does get 11 Googles, but ...
9 mins
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merci quand meme !
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Laurent M. C (X)
: how bad
5 hrs
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