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French to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Cinema, Film, TV, Drama / This sentence comes from the Statement of Intent for a screenplay. The screenplay deals with war. | | French term or phrase: s'ancrer | | Here's the whole sentence: "Support et vecteur de la fiction, le cinéma aura puisé, au gré des conflits dont il portait témoignage, matière à s'ancrer dans les aspects les plus insoutenables du réel." |
|  Leslie MarcusKudoZ activityQuestions: 2 (none open) Answers: 67
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| | become/get rooted | Explanation:
Robert & Collins
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Note added at 1 hr (2011-07-29 10:36:22 GMT)
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"will have grounded its roots into the worst/ unbearable aspects of the real / everyday life." hope it will help! |
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piazza d
France
Local time: 07:50
| Grading comment Thanks Piazza. I wanted to avoid the reflexive to make the sentence flow more smoothly and your suggestion of "ground its roots" is what really helped.
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