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lieu de vie (et de ville)

English translation: a center for student life in town and on campus

11:48 Oct 19, 2005
French to English translations [PRO]
Marketing - Nutrition
French term or phrase: lieu de vie (et de ville)
Taking about a new food stand at the Polytechnique in Paris: un veritable lieu de vie au coeur du campus.

It seems rather ridiculous to me to call a food court stand a "true living space", and I really don't know how to render this appropriately in English.

They use the same term again when talking about train stations, how they are going to add new food and shop services and make them into "nouveaux lieux de vie et de ville"

More PTDPD, Sara ;-)
French Foodie
Local time: 00:55
English translation:a center for student life in town and on campus
Explanation:
Why not?

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Note added at 7 mins (2005-10-19 11:55:47 GMT)
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Some French campuses *are* pretty dead, so I guess even a food court could become a bustling center for student life...

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Note added at 19 hrs 17 mins (2005-10-20 07:06:24 GMT)
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I think Mara should just combine all of the answers proposed.

Maybe "lively urban venues and social areas adding vitality to the student living and eating scene in the heart of the campus"

Just kidding, of course :)
Selected response from:

Sara Freitas
France
Local time: 00:55
Grading comment
Went for the big-combo version!
(Just kidding)
Thanks to all for your help on a very hectic day.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +2lifestyle/city living venues
CMJ_Trans (X)
4 +1social area
Carlos Alvarez
2 +3a lively place in the heart of the campus
Jonathan MacKerron
4 +1a student life scene //new urban living eating and shopping areas
Jane Lamb-Ruiz (X)
4 +1a center for student life in town and on campus
Sara Freitas
4place of vitality
Dr Sue Levy (X)


Discussion entries: 2





  

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1 min   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
lifestyle/city living venues


Explanation:
about as precise as they are

CMJ_Trans (X)
Local time: 00:55
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  writeaway: trip made? by fighter jet?
2 mins
  -> slightly postponed - going in 30 min
agree  Enza Longo
13 mins
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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
social area


Explanation:
The term is also used for the "back to nature" type communes set up in the late sixties.

Carlos Alvarez
United Kingdom
Local time: 23:55
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Josephine79: I think this is the one I like the best - it sounds the least stilted.
3 hrs
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19 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
place of vitality


Explanation:
something with vitality anyway - the idea being that the food stand livens up the place.

an oasis of vitality (groan)

oases of urban vitality (even worse)

Dr Sue Levy (X)
Local time: 00:55
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
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41 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +3
a lively place in the heart of the campus


Explanation:
??

Jonathan MacKerron
Native speaker of: English

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  eileengreen
59 mins
agree  RHELLER: lively is good
1 hr
agree  Sara Freitas: ditto lively
18 hrs
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
a student life scene //new urban living eating and shopping areas


Explanation:
C'mon now Mara....:)



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Note added at 10 hrs 55 mins (2005-10-19 22:44:18 GMT)
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I meant: new city living and shopping areas

Jane Lamb-Ruiz (X)
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Sara Freitas: l like "scene" and "urban" ...good options
11 hrs
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
a center for student life in town and on campus


Explanation:
Why not?

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Note added at 7 mins (2005-10-19 11:55:47 GMT)
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Some French campuses *are* pretty dead, so I guess even a food court could become a bustling center for student life...

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Note added at 19 hrs 17 mins (2005-10-20 07:06:24 GMT)
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I think Mara should just combine all of the answers proposed.

Maybe "lively urban venues and social areas adding vitality to the student living and eating scene in the heart of the campus"

Just kidding, of course :)

Sara Freitas
France
Local time: 00:55
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Went for the big-combo version!
(Just kidding)
Thanks to all for your help on a very hectic day.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  RHELLER: revive them :-)
2 hrs
  -> Thanks, Rita.
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