with movement
French translation: ... frémirent.
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dans ce mouvement Explanation: Tout simplement. |
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tremblotaient Explanation: Trembloter as opposed to Trembler conveys the shimmering of the English text. Valerie French national Angloscope Translations |
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avec ce mouvement ; avec mouvement ; par ce mouvement ; avec impulsion ; avec passion ... Explanation: Dear Veronique, By looking through English and French thesaurus, "movement" can have two scales of meanings :"le mouvement d'une chose" ou "le mouvement de l'ame ou du coeur" ...Anyway, the notion of movement, here, is, of course, due to the reflexion (cf. "shimmered") of the movement of the thighs and bottom on the window when she turned away ...The mirror, in litterature, has often been related as a symbolic object that can reflect the deep inside of our own heart and soul ...(Maybe I am thinking too much ...oops!). So, "with movement" can also have a connotation of passion or impulsion ...So, "with passion or impulsion" Hope this can help you ... My best regards Christophe DUBOIS [email protected] Harraps English-French dictionary ; dictionnaire des synonymes (Le Robert) ; Oxford English Thesaurus |
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avec ce mouvement Explanation: '... ses cuisses et ses fesses chatoyaient avec ce mouvement'. Tout simplement |
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dans ce mouvement ; du fait de ce mouvement Explanation: I hope it helps you Yacine |
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... frémirent. Explanation: The whole imagery of the text -- "ripple", "fell... like sand", "shimmered" -- evokes the kind of movement you see at the surface of a pond, for instance. It is a liquid kind of movement. I would look to verbs such as "frémir" for the thighs and bottom, rather than "trembler" or "tremblotter". The movement here is below the surface, deep. It is only a suggestion of movement that you see. I think I would leave out "with movement" from the translation, and leave it at: "... ses cuisses et ses fesses frémirent." Hope this helps (my first participation...) |
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