consommer sans modération

English translation: This guide will quench your thirst for info

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French term or phrase:ce guide est à consommer sans modération
English translation:This guide will quench your thirst for info
Entered by: NancyLynn

12:28 Apr 6, 2004
French to English translations [Non-PRO]
Tourism & Travel
French term or phrase: consommer sans modération
as not found on bottles of alcohol on sale in France
dholmes (X)
France
Local time: 14:46
to consume immoderately
Explanation:
or irresponsably

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Note added at 1 day 3 hrs 27 mins (2004-04-07 15:56:00 GMT)
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In light of the new comment:
How about \'Imbibe freely from this guide\'
This guide will quench your thirst for info
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NancyLynn
Canada
Local time: 09:46
Grading comment
Thanks a lot, I liked your first one as it seemed to best suit the actual context and the second ideas are great
cheers
Dianne
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Summary of answers provided
5 +2to consume immoderately
NancyLynn
5 +1drink as much as you like
Andre de Vries
4 +2drink freely / don't hold back
RHELLER
4 +1to consume without moderation
IanW (X)
5target audience???
Bourth (X)
5to overconsume
Jane Lamb-Ruiz (X)
4guzzle
lindaellen (X)
3drink without moderation
Hacene


Discussion entries: 2





  

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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
to consume without moderation


Explanation:
I would say "to consume without moderation/restraint"

IanW (X)
Local time: 14:46
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

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agree  Vicky Papaprodromou
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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
drink without moderation


Explanation:
if that's the meaning of "consommer". English is much more specific

Hacene
United Kingdom
Local time: 13:46
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  writeaway: we have no idea what this is about-only what it is not about: drinking ;-)
7 mins
  -> no, only that it is not alcohol
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22 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
target audience???


Explanation:
As you have pointed out, the expression is evocative of booze labelling in France and will not be understood by anyone who is not familiar with it. Of course you could translate with a "generic" adaption of "drink in moderation". In Australia and NZ, booze is labelled with the "number of standard drinks" the bottle contains, "standard drink" being a measure of the alcohol content; thus a litre of beer contains fewer standard drinks than a litre of whisky. I have just read on the Web that in the UK, while this is not obligatory, some brewers are voluntarily indicating standard drinks on their labels/

SO ... depending on the target audience, you could adapt it to something like "drink without regard to the number of standard drinks". Of course this will work IF you are talking about drinks. If you're talking about chocolate, tobacco, or French letters, it falls a bit flat I'm afraid, eventually!

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Otherwise, \"go for it!\", \"don\'t hold back!\", \"Enjoy!\", \"So let yourself go!\", \"Let it all hang out\", \"So get stuck in?\", \"What are you waiting for?\", etc. might work .... DEPENDING ON CONTEXT!

Bourth (X)
Local time: 14:46
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 67
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26 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
drink as much as you like


Explanation:
it's supposed to be humorous isn't it?

Andre de Vries
United Kingdom
Local time: 13:46
Works in field
Native speaker of: English

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  CMJ_Trans (X): or "eat as much as you like" as our S. African tour guide used to say!
1 min
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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
to overconsume


Explanation:
overconsumption in idiomatic English

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Note added at 31 mins (2004-04-06 12:59:15 GMT)
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IT DEPENDS ON THE SENTENCE IN WHICH IT APPEARS.

MY DOXA: CONTEXT IS EVERYTHING

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Note added at 31 mins (2004-04-06 13:00:00 GMT)
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IT COULD EVEN BE;

THREE SHEETS TO THE WIND

RIGHT??

Jane Lamb-Ruiz (X)
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 95
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
drink freely / don't hold back


Explanation:
the exact expression depends on where and when this phrase will be pronounced

RHELLER
United States
Local time: 07:46
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 31

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Tom Bishop: or even "drink to excess", depending on THE CONTEXT !!
1 hr

agree  Mario Marcolin
15 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
guzzle


Explanation:
If it is meant to be funny, "guzzle" means to "pig-out" on a liquid, i.e. "to guzzle beer".

lindaellen (X)
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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
to consume immoderately


Explanation:
or irresponsably

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Note added at 1 day 3 hrs 27 mins (2004-04-07 15:56:00 GMT)
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In light of the new comment:
How about \'Imbibe freely from this guide\'
This guide will quench your thirst for info

NancyLynn
Canada
Local time: 09:46
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 14
Grading comment
Thanks a lot, I liked your first one as it seemed to best suit the actual context and the second ideas are great
cheers
Dianne

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Vicky Papaprodromou
2 mins
  -> thanks Vicky!

agree  Mario Marcolin
17 hrs
  -> thanks
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