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ditchstop

French translation: trou perdu

18:43 Dec 19, 2013
English to French translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters / Science-fiction roleplaying game
English term or phrase: ditchstop
Watching the morning clouds roll down its lower slopes while the sun crept up painting the Martian desert red gold, it was all enough to make you forget you were a helluv poor redneck in a ***ditchstop*** town full of XP junkies who didn’t even hold the copyrights on their own bodies.

Je pense comprendre à peu près l'idée, mais j'ai beaucoup de mal à trouver une traduction satisfaisante.
On parle ici d'un personnage qui décrit un lever de soleil sur l'Olympus Mons de Mars.
David Creuze
France
Local time: 15:29
French translation:trou perdu
Explanation:
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Anne R
Italy
Local time: 15:29
Grading comment
Merci, c'est bien ça que je vais utiliser finalement.
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Summary of answers provided
3 +4trou perdu
Anne R
3 +1bled
kashew
4ravitaillé par le corbeaux
Didier Fourcot
3le terminus / le bout du monde
patrickfor
3un bled paumé
Daryo


  

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48 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +4
trou perdu


Explanation:
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Anne R
Italy
Local time: 15:29
Works in field
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in category: 68
Grading comment
Merci, c'est bien ça que je vais utiliser finalement.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  kashew
1 hr
  -> merci
agree  Victoria Britten
1 hr
  -> merci
agree  sporran
6 hrs
agree  GILLES MEUNIER
9 hrs
neutral  Jocelyne Cuenin: difficile à conjuguer avec l'idée de ville
14 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
bled


Explanation:
*

kashew
France
Local time: 15:29
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 130

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Platary (X): bled paumé, petaouchnok...
14 hrs
  -> Merci
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
le terminus / le bout du monde


Explanation:
bref le pire des endroits ou l'on s'arrête parce qu'on ne peut pas aller plus loin, trouver pire

patrickfor
France
Local time: 15:29
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 16
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17 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
ravitaillé par le corbeaux


Explanation:
C'est pour aller avec "town" qui ne s'accorde pas trop bien avec "trou perdu" ou "bled" est un peu connoté

C'est idiomatique mais après tout "ditchstop" pour une ville où le seul moyen de transport et l'auto-stop correspond bien


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Note added at 17 heures (2013-12-20 11:58:15 GMT)
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leS corbeaux bien sûr


    Reference: http://infodoc.blog.free.fr/index.php?post/2010/03/04/%22Rav...
    Reference: http://www.linguapop.com/article-12306547.html
Didier Fourcot
Local time: 15:29
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 68
Notes to answerer
Asker: J'aime bien l'expression mais je ne sais si je vais pouvoir la faire fonctionner. En effet, si bled est effectivement trop "connoté", c'est aussi le cas de cette expression ici : pas de corbeaux sur Mars. Mais je vais y réfléchir, merci !

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1 day 2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
ditchstop town
un bled paumé


Explanation:
like this one:
" This mining town of 300 people clings like a burr to the back of the Black Rock Desert. For years, it was marked on state Highway 447 by a two-story sign reading, "Welcome to Nowhere.""
[http://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/r14/USA/Society/2011/061...]

Daryo
United Kingdom
Local time: 14:29
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in SerbianSerbian, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 112
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