Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

And now, meeting a growing international roar of laughter and rejection.

French translation:

et maintenant accueilli par l'hilarité générale et les rebuffades

Added to glossary by jean-jacques alexandre
Aug 17, 2007 15:43
16 yrs ago
English term

And now, meeting a growing international roar of laughter and rejection.

English to French Art/Literary Cinema, Film, TV, Drama
dialogue between 2 characters re: the failure of a product.
Change log

Aug 23, 2007 06:50: jean-jacques alexandre Created KOG entry

Discussion

Salima Post (asker) Aug 17, 2007:
This was the previous sentence.
The promise of a global future... pinned to a groundbreaking shoe,your design with a new form of material,launched this week to great fanfare.
And now, meeting a growing international roar of laughter and rejection.

Tony M Aug 17, 2007:
As this is not even a complete sentence, it might help to give us a few lines of the dialouge either side of it, so we can see a bit more of the context.

Proposed translations

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et maintenant accueilli par l'hilarité générale et les rebuffades

or something along this line

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Note added at 5 days (2007-08-23 06:51:40 GMT) Post-grading
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Thanks Morgan !!!!
Peer comment(s):

agree Sylvie Updegraff : tout à faìt dans l'esprit il me semble
1 hr
Merci Sylvie le compliment me va droit au coeur
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et devenant peut à peu la risée et la bête noire du monde entier

Suggestion... mais la traduction de rejection n'en pas très bonne. Pas d'autre idée pour l'instant.

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oh, peu à peu...
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21 hrs

et maintenant, être l'objet de la risée universelle et mis au ban

Je ne trouve pas de formulation pour "growing" sans faire lourd.
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