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English: back sliding

French translation: retours en arrière







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GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW)
English term or phrase:back sliding
French translation:retours en arrière
Entered by:France Mercier
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English to French translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - History
English term or phrase: back sliding
One by one the worst threats have given away. Except for lamentable areas of back sliding, the world has seen the wisdom of XXXX’s ways
France Mercier
Canada
retours en arrière
Explanation:
mis à part de lamentables retours en arrière...
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Sophieanne
United States
Note from asker to answerer
Merci!!!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +2Récidive ou rechute.aqanai
5 +1régression
Michel Lévy
4 +1retours en arrière
Sophieanne
4 +1Si l'on excepte quelques déplorables retours en arrière
traviata
3régression
Hervé BLAISE


  

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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
régression

Explanation:
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Michel Lévy
Canada
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Sophieanne
2 mins
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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
retours en arrière

Explanation:
mis à part de lamentables retours en arrière...

Sophieanne
United States
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12
Note from asker to answerer
Merci!!!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral traviata: oups, nous nous sommes croisées :)
0 min
  -> je vois ça ;)
agree Nanny Wintjens
3 hrs
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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
Récidive ou rechute.

Explanation:
Backslide veut dire récidiver ou rechuter, donc backsliding veut dire 'recidive ou rechute.

aqanai
United States
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Graham macLachlan
18 mins
agree Hebe Martorella
1 hr
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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
régression

Explanation:
A l'exception de facheux domaines de régression,...

Hervé BLAISE
France
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Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Si l'on excepte quelques déplorables retours en arrière

Explanation:
...ou un retour en arrière déplorable dans quelques domaines.

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...ou hormis/sauf quelques...

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Note added at 31 mins (2004-08-09 21:20:31 GMT) Post-grading
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Dictionnaire de l\'Académie Française \"excepter\" V. Transitif - se conjugue comme \"aimer
http://atlif.atlif.fr/Dendien/scripts/generic/cherche.exe?22...
Si le lien ne fonctionne pas aller sur le site de l\'Académie.

traviata
Canada
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral Sophieanne: j'aime bien déplorables retours en arrière... mais "si l'on excepte" n'est pas joli en français... selon moi :)
1 min
  -> Ã‰tonnant commentaire... tous mes dicos l'acceptent et je peux vous citer plein d'auteurs aussi.
neutral Graham macLachlan: "si l'on excepte" gets over 15k googles...; Prozland can be a strange place
19 mins
  -> merci mactrad, je ne comprends pas non plus :)
agree Michel Lévy: avec sophieanne et heureusement les hits google ne sont pas un critère du 'bien parler' !!!!!
27 mins
  -> c'est juste, mais l'Académie et les dicos, oui
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