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Social Sciences - Anthropology | | English term or phrase: swilling the dregs | The shortest libation I have heard, when drinking palm wine, swilling the dregs and making them go "plop" when they hit the earth, is "Aso."
C'est un essai anthropologique sur les Ancêtres, la mort et l'au-delà. J'ai cherché une traduction de "swilling the dregs", qui veut en gros (je pense) dire "boire jusqu'à la lie", mais ici, ça ne colle pas. J'ai vu que ça s'appliquait aussi à l'acte de lire dans les feuilles de thé, donc dans un cadre "mystique" comme celui de mon texte, ça peut coller, mais comment le traduire? En fait, ils répandent les libations de vin de palme sur le sol d'après ce que j'ai pu lire sur le net, masi je suis toujours aussi perdue sur ce "swilling the dregs", help !!!
Here is what I'm translating: http://www.scn.org/rdi/kw-anc.htm
Thnks a lot in advance |
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| | remuer les lies | Explanation:
Here, 'swilling' doesn't mean 'to swill down' in the sense of drink, but rather, to swirl them around in the cup (etc.), in order to leave it as clean as possible when you then tip it out onto the ground. |
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 Tony M
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5 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +2 remuer les lies
Explanation:
Here, 'swilling' doesn't mean 'to swill down' in the sense of drink, but rather, to swirl them around in the cup (etc.), in order to leave it as clean as possible when you then tip it out onto the ground.
| Tony M
France
Local time: 22:24
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Could be the act of rinsing, swirling the vessel, prior to tossing them on the ground to read the future or what. One wouldn't drink the sediment, I suppose - unless too drunk to care!
| kashew
France
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