ставить жирную точку

English translation: put a culminating full stop

22:23 Nov 16, 2008

Russian to English translations [PRO]
Music / анализ партитуры (общая терминология)

Russian term or phrase: ставить жирную точку

Ну и наконец именно cassa заканчивает оперу, ***ставит***, так сказать, ***жирную точку***. Знаковым моментом является и тот, что именно cassa открывает знаменитый Антракт ударных.

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English translation:put a culminating full stop

Explanation:
Last but not least, here as so often in the stock story of Victorian death, famous last words put a culminating full stop to the life they epitomize

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Alexander Onishko

Grading comment

Thanks everyone!!!

I'll go for this option as it seems to reflect the "finality" which is intended here (from my point of view).
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Summary of answers provided

5 +4

end with a flourish

Deborah Hoffman

4 +3

put a culminating full stop

Alexander Onishko

draw a bold line

Mykhailo Voloshko

to round off

Andrei Chernysh

Answers

10 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

put a culminating full stop

Alexander Onishko
Native speaker of:

Russian,

Ukrainian
PRO pts in category: 12

Grading comment

Thanks everyone!!!

I'll go for this option as it seems to reflect the "finality" which is intended here (from my point of view).

13 mins confidence:

draw a bold line

Explanation:
draw a thick / bold line

Mykhailo Voloshko
Ukraine
Local time: 18:47
Native speaker of:

Ukrainian,

Russian

10 mins confidence:

to round off

Explanation:
to do something as a way of ending an event, performance etc in a suitable or satisfactory way

round off something
To round off National Peace Week, a concert was organized in the park.

round something off with something
She served us a splendid dinner, rounded off with a marvellous orange mousse.

They rounded off the day with a barbecue at the beach.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.

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round off

transitive verb
1. finish something in pleasing way: to bring something to a pleasant or satisfactory end by doing or adding one last thing

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Andrei Chernysh
Russian Federation
Local time: 18:47
Native speaker of: Russian

46 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

end with a flourish

Explanation:
Thus preserving the "writing" analogy.

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Note added at 48 мин (2008-11-16 23:12:06 GMT)
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Selective Amnesia » Ghazni, Godfather and a lesson in lost ...Oct 31, 2005 ... You want to end with a flourish, either by escalating the tension, or dampening it. Either of which is okay for me. But not a sentimental, ...
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Deborah Hoffman
Local time: 11:47
Native speaker of: English

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