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Explanation: "The Golden Square Mile was the name of a luxurious neighbourhood at the foot of Mount Royal in the west-central section of downtown Montreal, Canada. The Square Mile, as a neighbourhood, is generally understood to have existed between 1875 and 1930, at which point, in the face of economic hardship and an increasingly desperate situation in Depression-era Montreal (along with a dawning automobile era, and a desire for more modern homes), many of the former occupants decamped for Westmount and other areas.
From roughly 1850, wealthier families began to migrate out of Montreal's increasingly congested port and downtown core, to settle in new suburban areas built on land formerly given to farming. Of these new areas, the most prestigious were those along the southern slopes of Mount Royal, along Sherbrooke Street west (then little more than a country road); and around McGill University. This would become the core of the Square Mile."
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if so , use figurative phrase in arabic to indicate the meaning
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Mohammed
I guess either "Golden Square Mile" is meant literally or figuratively. if Figuratively i think you are free to translate it in any way provided you keep the figurative meaning. this figurative meaning , however is not very clear from the text you provided.
The text is a speech given by a head of a GCC investment company deliverered at a meeting where all attendees are of Arab nationality with one only from UK and to whom this sentence was addressed.
So, what I think is that the speakers uses "Golden Square Mile" as sort of a figure of speech or so...
A text mentioning Soho, for example, does not need to mention London, specifically. Similarly a text that mentions Central Park does not need to mention New York, does it?
Explanation: "The Golden Square Mile was the name of a luxurious neighbourhood at the foot of Mount Royal in the west-central section of downtown Montreal, Canada. The Square Mile, as a neighbourhood, is generally understood to have existed between 1875 and 1930, at which point, in the face of economic hardship and an increasingly desperate situation in Depression-era Montreal (along with a dawning automobile era, and a desire for more modern homes), many of the former occupants decamped for Westmount and other areas.
From roughly 1850, wealthier families began to migrate out of Montreal's increasingly congested port and downtown core, to settle in new suburban areas built on land formerly given to farming. Of these new areas, the most prestigious were those along the southern slopes of Mount Royal, along Sherbrooke Street west (then little more than a country road); and around McGill University. This would become the core of the Square Mile."
-------------------------------------------------- Note added at 52 mins (2008-04-24 11:23:11 GMT) --------------------------------------------------
if so , use figurative phrase in arabic to indicate the meaning
-------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2008-04-24 11:35:56 GMT) --------------------------------------------------
Mohammed
I guess either "Golden Square Mile" is meant literally or figuratively. if Figuratively i think you are free to translate it in any way provided you keep the figurative meaning. this figurative meaning , however is not very clear from the text you provided.
Khalid Nasir Local time: 06:40 Native speaker of: Arabic PRO pts in category: 4
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Asker: thank you Mr. khalid. But how will I translate the sentence in the example I gave. I mean the text does not talk about Canada at all!
The translation workplace 
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