22:47 Jan 12, 2008 |
French to English translations [PRO] Social Sciences - Philosophy / Psychology, Psycho-analysis | |||||||
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yesteryear's purely outward appearance of fidelity Explanation: not very happy with the phrasing, but here's something to get the ball rolling.. I understand that the author is saying that his examination of fidelity will try to avoid these two pitfalls, one of them being to say that society should go back to 'traditional' values (if you're married then you must be totally faithful) because in fact fidelity 'in the olden days' was pure appearance - it being tacitly accepted that men would have mistresses... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 45 mins (2008-01-12 23:32:26 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- sorry - I just translated what's in the heading. If I stay with my original suggestion and translate what you've put in " " in your question... ".. avoiding two pitfalls, that of (arguing for) a return to yesteryear's purely outward appearance of fidelity, (or, to go with Mark's excellent suggestion " the purely outward appearance of fidelity of past times" )" and ...." |
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