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Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

to go down the front straightaway

English answer:

driving along the straight in front of the stands

Added to glossary by Mohamed Fouda
Aug 27, 2019 20:16
4 yrs ago
English term

to go down the front straightaway

Non-PRO English Other General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters dialogue in a film/video
I'm not really sure what's meant by this phrase. When I googled it, it was kind of related to car racing, which what would be talked about later in the text. Does it just refer to the fans goind down to the trackrace?

A man called Daedalus.
He was the first person who built machines with the power of the gods.
The word "fan" is a derivative of fanatic, which is a focus, a belief, and a worship.
You can see going down the front straightaway,
all the arms in the air, they're just cheering you on.
It's just so exciting.
The track becomes, in many ways, a religious experience itself.
People have seats where their families always sit, it's kind of like the pew in church.
Responses
4 +1 driving along the straight in front of the stands
4 +1 you can see the cars going down the front straightaway - and the reaction of the fans in the stands
3 -1 while you are driving in the straight line in front of the main spectator stands
Change log

Aug 27, 2019 22:28: writeaway changed "Field" from "Art/Literary" to "Other" , "Field (write-in)" from " " to " dialogue in a film/video"

Discussion

Daryo Aug 28, 2019:
well maybe part of the test is to see if you are going to request the video ... although assuming that they would think of such level of "testing" would be a very brave assumption for most agencies.

Anyway, this section:

You can see going down the front straightaway,
all the arms in the air, they're just cheering you on.
It's just so exciting.

is clearly narrated from the viewpoint of a racing driver.

A pretty strong clue: the only way the crowd could be "cheering on you" is if you are on the receiving end i.e. the driver.
Mohamed Fouda (asker) Aug 28, 2019:
@Daryo
It's a test I've been asigned to. I don't usually do subtitles without watching the video. The video makes all the dirrerence.
Daryo Aug 28, 2019:
So it's a racing driver talking about his experience / the story of his life? Kind of monologue?
Mohamed Fouda (asker) Aug 28, 2019:
A man called Daedalus.
He was the first person who built machines with the power of the gods. The word "fan" is a derivative of fanatic,
which is a focus, a belief, and a worship.
You can see going down the front straightaway, all the arms in the air, they're just cheering you on.
It's just so exciting.
The track becomes, in many ways, a religious experience itself.
People have seats where their families always sit, it's kind of like the pew in church.
The South, we didn't have Major League Baseball, we didn't have the Yankees or the Dodgers, we didn't have the Green Bay Packers.
So Richard Petty became your guy.
David Pearson became your guy.
Buddy Baker became your guy.
And Dale Earnhardt, Sr. is still a mystical, mythical guy to a lot of people.
Our fans fight for us every day.
They feel like they're part of this club, this family.
Every Sunday, they put on their hats, they put on their shirts, they will buy a ticket and drive 600 miles to a race.
It is their calling to be there.
We're going up the mountain, into that place in the mountains.
And my whole family is from a town on the other end of this mountain over here called Ellijay.
Daryo Aug 28, 2019:
@ Mohamed Farouk a bit more context - where are these characters during this dialogue?

If it's a dialogue at all - sounds to me more like an off-screen voice commenting.

"they're just cheering you on" => that would be the viewpoint of the leading driver (or of a favourite of the crowd) during or just after the race.

Any more info?

I hope that it's not the case that someone had a stroke of penny-pinching genius / the bright idea to give you the film dialogue and nothing else - no script nor the movie.

Responses

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17 hrs
English term (edited): going down the front straightaway
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driving along the straight in front of the stands

Now for the US English version: it seems that the straight in front of the stands is called the "front straightaway" in US English.

However, I can't agree with either of the other two answers, as this is clearly being told by a driver: "... they're just cheering you on". So, this is telling what it feels like to be driving in a race.

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Note added at 18 hrs (2019-08-28 15:04:10 GMT)
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@Asker
He could be imagining what it is like to be a driver. Obviously, you have the context that would make that clear.
Note from asker:
Perhaps he's a fan himself. Growing up there and seeing all this around him. So, I think he was talking from a driver's viewpoint?
Peer comment(s):
agree Daryo : can only agree as you are basically saying the same thing: this is said from the viewpoint of a racing driver driving in front of the main stand - which is usually a straight section of the race track.
6 hrs
Thanks Daryo
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57 mins
English term (edited): You can see going down the front straightaway,

you can see the cars going down the front straightaway - and the reaction of the fans in the stands

You can see going down the front straightaway => you can see the cars going down the front straightaway - and the reaction of the fans in the stands
Note from asker:
@Sheila Wilson You say that the speaker says that from a race driver's viewpoint? You mean he's imagining himself as a driver trying to catch up and be in front of other cars?
Thank you so much! I really appreciate it.
Peer comment(s):
agree Sheila Wilson : Except that this is from the viewpoint of a race driver: "cheering you on".
16 mins
thank you
disagree Daryo : repeating the same sentence is not an explanation + all this is from the viewpoint of racing drivers // In which dictionary have you found your definition of "explaining"? Bin that dictionary ... or use it just as dead weight!
9 hrs
IYO of course - and of course I do NOT agree with you - better idea "bin" your comments
agree GILLES MEUNIER
10 hrs
thank you
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-1
10 hrs
English term (edited): You can see going down the front straightaway

while you are driving in the straight line in front of the main spectator stands

... you can see the cheering crowd that in the front of the spectator stands



"they're just cheering you on" => that would be the viewpoint of the leading driver (or of a favourite of the crowd) during or just after the race.

In most racetracks the start/finish of the race is in the middle of a long straigh line, and the main spectator stands would be at the level of the the start/finish line.

So this driver would see the "cheering crowd" while driving in the straight line in front of the main stands.

Just a logical suppostion - but it's not excluded that when combined with what is really in the movie, it sounds like a silly mistranslation.
Peer comment(s):
disagree airmailrpl : the "straight line" is called the "straightaway" - also called the "straight"
1 hr
yes, but why would that what make "straight line" wrong??? The "logic" of your disagree looks to me like being liberated of any basic logic ... about as logical as "explaining" by simply repeating verbatim the same thing!
neutral B D Finch : As opposed to weaving from side to side?
6 hrs
as opposed to driving in a bend. // BTW they do drive "weaving from side to side" -before the start of the race, to warm up tyres.
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