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s’apprivoiser

English translation: tempering one another

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French term or phrase:s’apprivoiser
English translation:tempering one another
Entered by: cc in nyc

13:40 Jul 6, 2011
French to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Cinema, Film, TV, Drama / theatre review
French term or phrase: s’apprivoiser
"Le mythe est pessimiste alors que le conte de fée est optimiste, si terrifiant que puissent être certains passages de l'histoire".

Le Théâtre Nouvelle Génération est un lieu où ces deux états d’âme dialoguent, s’observent et s’apprivoisent sans cesse, puisqu’ils sont complémentaires comme le sont l'obscurité et la lumière, la tragédie et la comédie, l'adulte et l'enfant
janisct
Local time: 15:55
tempering each other
Explanation:
Or perhaps "mitigating one another"
Selected response from:

cc in nyc
Local time: 10:55
Grading comment
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +3tempering each other
cc in nyc
4 +2moderate one another
B D Finch
4 +1to tame each other
Victor_T
4 +1become acquainted / reach a compromise
Lara Barnett
4to condition each other
reorient
4befriend each other
Najib Aloui
3meet
mimi 254
3get used to each other
bigmimi
Summary of reference entries provided
We've had this before
philgoddard

  

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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
to tame each other


Explanation:
why not?


    Reference: http://home.pacific.net.hk/~rebylee/text/prince/21.html
Victor_T
Mexico
Local time: 08:55
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Marian Vieyra
1 hr
  -> Thanks
neutral  reorient: I think in this context the expression to tame makes less sense, as this is about a constant interaction (sans cesse).
22 hrs
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
become acquainted / reach a compromise


Explanation:
"become acquainted with each other"

or

"Reach a compromise with each other"

is how I see the idea of taming each other in this context.

Lara Barnett
United Kingdom
Local time: 15:55
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 32

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Nikki Scott-Despaigne: I like "become acquainted" here - and without the "with one another" strangely enough.
5 hrs
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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
meet


Explanation:
se rencontrent

mimi 254
Local time: 15:55
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 4
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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
moderate one another


Explanation:
critdamage.blogspot.com/2011/04/draft-of-thesis-abstract.html
"... this thesis explores how the agencies of both actors—player and character—intertwine and mediate each other to form a hybrid actor, ..."

jpepsy.oxfordjournals.org/content/30/7/553.full.pdf
Moderation is
present when one variable (the moderator) affects the
direction or intensity of the relation between a second
(the predictor) and a third (the criterion) variable. Thus,
in moderation the predictor and moderator concurrently
influence the criterion in a multiplicative manner."

https://notes.utk.edu/bio/.../86ca5aed742ce7ba8525710300528a... - Cached
'“Thus, gut and reason moderate each other. The balance of their mix varies. When the outcome of decisions cannot be easily judged, or when actors' judgement ...'

www.bolenderinitiatives.com/.../robert-ezra-park-social-cha... - Cached
"Opinions clash and thus modify and moderate one another." When un- thinking crowds are transformed into reflective publics, there emerge new social entities ..."


B D Finch
France
Local time: 16:55
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 36
Notes to answerer
Asker: Interesting!


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Leslie Marcus: I agree but actually prefer "mediate each other" which is in the first part of your explanation.
54 mins
  -> Thanks Leslie. That first ref. is actually a left-over from my first idea, which was "mediate each other". However, I then decided that "moderate" was probably closer to the French term.
agree  Yvonne Gallagher: I prefer "mediate" as well
5 hrs
  -> Thanks gallagy
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12 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
tempering each other


Explanation:
Or perhaps "mitigating one another"

cc in nyc
Local time: 10:55
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 16

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Yolanda Broad
23 mins
  -> Thank you!
agree  Laura Nagle (X)
1 hr
  -> Thank you!
agree  Yvonne Gallagher: "tempering" but not "mitigating"!
5 hrs
  -> Thank you! The more I look at it myself, the more I agree with your comment ;-)
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47 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
to condition each other


Explanation:
I think "to condition" would make good sense in this context. As apprivoiser has the meaning of taming an animal or rendering it useful and as the English "to condition" also means, among other things, to render fit for use or work (see reference)/to accustom to/ to adapt ... I think it is justified to use it as English equivalent to the original term.

Example sentence(s):
  • 3. To render fit for work or use.7. Psychology To cause an organism to respond in a specific manner to a conditioned stimulus in the absence of an unconditioned stimulus

    Reference: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/condition
    Reference: http://www.linternaute.com/dictionnaire/fr/definition/appriv...
reorient
Local time: 17:55
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 12
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
get used to each other


Explanation:
synonyme de coexister, vivre ensemble

bigmimi
Local time: 10:55
Native speaker of: French
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8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
befriend each other


Explanation:
...

Najib Aloui
Local time: 15:55
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 4
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Reference comments


2 hrs
Reference: We've had this before

Reference information:
I particularly like "bring out the best in", but there are some other good suggestions.


    Reference: http://www.proz.com/kudoz/french_to_english/poetry_literatur...
philgoddard
United States
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 47
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