Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
désengoncer
English translation:
to unshackle, liberate, release
Added to glossary by
Jocelyne S
Feb 2, 2010 16:17
14 yrs ago
French term
France
désengoncer
French to English
Social Sciences
Linguistics
I'm really stuck here...
The context is an academic article on urban sustainability, justice and ecological debt. (The quotation marks appear in the source text.)
Le champ de questionnement de la dette écologique, à la fois ample et complexe, reconfigure les liens entre questions sociales et questions environnementales. Cette notion permet de « désengoncer » la notion de justice environnementale pour lui donner une portée planétaire et intergénérationnelle (Byrne et al., 2002). Elle renouvelle fondamentalement l’appréhension de la justice internationale.
Many thanks in advance for your thoughts.
Best,
Jocelyne
The context is an academic article on urban sustainability, justice and ecological debt. (The quotation marks appear in the source text.)
Le champ de questionnement de la dette écologique, à la fois ample et complexe, reconfigure les liens entre questions sociales et questions environnementales. Cette notion permet de « désengoncer » la notion de justice environnementale pour lui donner une portée planétaire et intergénérationnelle (Byrne et al., 2002). Elle renouvelle fondamentalement l’appréhension de la justice internationale.
Many thanks in advance for your thoughts.
Best,
Jocelyne
Proposed translations
(English)
| 3 +3 | see notes |
Rob Grayson
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| 3 +1 | expand |
John Detre
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| 4 | to release from fetters |
Euqinimod (X)
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| 3 | to liberate |
Jean-Louis S.
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| 3 | loosen up |
CrisEon
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| 3 | to redefine |
liz askew
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| 3 | disentangle / straighten out / unravel |
HugoSteckel
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| 3 | disensconce |
Cecile Vidic (X)
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Change log
Feb 8, 2010 08:36: Jocelyne S Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
+3
8 mins
Selected
see notes
Like you, I struggled to find any useful references for "désengoncer", though I had a feeling (backed up by your text) that it had to do with throwing off restrictions. I had a flash of inspiration and looked up "engoncer" in my Collins-Robert, which, sure enough, gives "to cramp or restrict". So, logically, "désengoncer" means to do the opposite: to free up or throw off restrictions.
Now, how you work this into your sentence is another matter. Since the text is talking about justice, you could maybe work in something like "removing the shackles from environmental justice"... just thinking aloud.
Now, how you work this into your sentence is another matter. Since the text is talking about justice, you could maybe work in something like "removing the shackles from environmental justice"... just thinking aloud.
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thank you to all for your suggestions. Trying to look for "engoncer" without the prefix "dés-" hadn't even occurred to me; I was on a different line of thought altogether. Anyhow, I've gone with Rob's "unshackling" idea."
7 mins
Jean-Louis S.
United States
United States
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4
8 mins
loosen up
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12 mins
to redefine
I know it means "disassociate oneself from", but perhaps this could work.
Environmental Justice — a Project of EECOM
Working with the Environmental Justice Collaborative Working Group to redefine the meaning of environmental justice in Marin. Collaborating for the Future ...
www.eecom.net/ej.html - Cached
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Note added at 13 mins (2010-02-02 16:31:35 GMT)
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i.e.
they don't want to be tied down with previous definitions of environmental justice.
Environmental Justice — a Project of EECOM
Working with the Environmental Justice Collaborative Working Group to redefine the meaning of environmental justice in Marin. Collaborating for the Future ...
www.eecom.net/ej.html - Cached
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Note added at 13 mins (2010-02-02 16:31:35 GMT)
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i.e.
they don't want to be tied down with previous definitions of environmental justice.
14 mins
HugoSteckel
Switzerland
Switzerland
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Switzerland
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Native in: English (Variants: British, UK, US)
Works in: Spanish to English, French to English, Catalan to English, and 1 more.
disentangle / straighten out / unravel
Perhaps other ways of saying it..
+1
38 mins
expand
maybe
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Note added at 40 mins (2010-02-02 16:58:15 GMT)
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"expands the concept of environmental justice to..."
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Note added at 40 mins (2010-02-02 16:58:15 GMT)
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"expands the concept of environmental justice to..."
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Carruthers (X)
: as in extend
3 mins
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thanks!
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1 hr
disensconce
Is there not such a (rare) term in English as "to disensconce"? This may work here.
6 hrs
to release from fetters
Fetters being anything that confines or restrains.
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