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Title	The child spirit,hidden under a ...
Text Submitted by Mariketta	Source language: English The child spirit,hidden under a thousand and one grey City wrappings bursts its bonds. Valleys,lit with the swaying light of broom blossom,in the distance,grey whares,with a light petticoat frill of a garden,creeping round them on a white road once a procession of patient cattle. A shivering mass of white native blossom,a tree touched with scarlet,a clump of toiâ€“toi,and looking for all the world like a family of little girls drying their hair.
Remarks about the translation	some informations about some words from this text : "toi-toi" is a plant very diffuse in New Zealand; "whares" are places of meeting in New Zealand also know as "marae".

Title

L'esprit de l'enfant...

Translation

French

Translated by

Botica

Target language: French

L'esprit de l'enfant, cachÃ© sous mille et un emballages de ville grise rompt ses liens.
Des vallÃ©es, illuminÃ©es par la lumiÃ¨re se balanÃ§ant des fleurs de genÃªt, au loin, des maraes gris, avec le volant d'un jupon lÃ©ger d'un jardin, et se faufilant autour d'elles sur une route blanche une procession de bÃ©tail patient. Une masse frissonnante d'une fleur indigÃ¨ne blanche, un arbre avec une touche d'Ã©carlate, un bouquet de toi-toi, et en cherchant le monde entier comme une famille de petites filles sÃ©chant leurs cheveux.

Last validated or edited by Francky5591

- 23 June 2008 01:45

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	Author	Message
		23 June 2008 12:38
	Botica Number of messages: 643	Merci pour la correction Francky (c'Ã©tait drying et pas dying).
		23 June 2008 13:18
	Francky5591 Number of messages: 12396	Normal, je fais mon boulot! Je ne sais pas si tu l'as vue, mais hier aprÃ¨s-midi, j'avais postÃ© une version assez bÃ¢clÃ©e de ce texte, aussi je me suis dÃ©pÃªchÃ©, aprÃ¨s avoir lu ta traduction, de l'effacer de sous la version anglaise...)
		28 June 2008 22:19
	casper tavernello Number of messages: 5057	Is it right to translate "The child spirit" into "L'esprit de l'enfant"? The text puts child as an adjective for spirit, a "spirit of child", like a wild/innocent/joker one, not "of the child", belonging to a child. CC: Botica Francky5591
		29 June 2008 00:55
	Francky5591 Number of messages: 12396	I see what you mean, it would be translated by "l'esprit d'enfant", I've been thinking to that possibility of translation as well... What do you think about this way to translate "the child spirit", Botica? CC: Botica
		29 June 2008 21:26
	Botica Number of messages: 643	I think it would better to say : l'esprit enfant.