mid-six figure sum
French translation: autour des 500 000
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|  Selected response from: FX Fraipont (X) Belgium Local time: 09:59 | ||||||
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| 4 +3 | autour des 500 mille |
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| 3 | environ 500 000 (cinq cent mille) |
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environ 500 000 (cinq cent mille) Explanation: Mon interpretation. |
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EXPLANATION ONLY Explanation: It means a figure that is over 99,000 but less than 999,000, and the mid- indicates it is somewhere in the middle of this range — say from 400,000 to 600,000, for example. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 6 mins (2008-07-02 09:07:06 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- The problem is that it represents quite a WIDE window, and I don't know how to express that best in FR — perhaps 'aux alentours de...'? -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 21 mins (2008-07-02 09:22:52 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- or 'de l'ordre de [median value]'?? -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 35 mins (2008-07-02 09:37:01 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Yes, in the light of that all-important added extra context, I think your solution is satisfactory — though it does miss out the connotation of "isn't this an impressively / ambitiously large sum?" conveyed by the tone of the original. |
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peer agreement (net): +3autour des 500 mille Explanation: 100000 low six 500000 middle 900000 high six -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2008-07-02 10:10:23 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Steve Spinner n'avait aucune expérience, mais s'est engagé à récolter 250,000 dollars; il a dépassé son objectif et est passé de néophyte à "mid-six-figure raiser" "This brought an invitation from Obama's national finance chair, Penny Pritzker, to join the national finance committee and commit to raising $250,000. Spinner thought about it, and took the plunge. He'd been surprised by the excitement he'd encountered for Obama, but also by the lack of a forum to discuss it. So he established what Web denizens would call an affinity group, "Entrepreneurs for Obama," to serve this untapped market. Obama appeared before the group by videoconference in May and was a smash hit. Almost overnight, a whole new network, which would yield its own spin-offs, had come into being and gone to work for the candidate. And in a period of weeks, Spinner, who had never raised a dime for a presidential campaign, had gone from neophyte to mid-six-figure Obama fund-raiser. " http://www.ocnus.net/artman2/publish/Analyses_12/How_Silicon... |
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