Discussion in 'French-English Vocabulary / Vocabulaire Français-Anglais' started by sudest, Jan 7, 2008.
According to an anonymous American official it is the most important provacation of its sort to this day form Iran .This incident comes several days before the visit of George W.Bush to the Middle East.
I'm not sure that I indicate in bold above.Can you look through these places?Please.
C'est la provocation de la sorte la plus sérieuse jusqu'à ce jour. Cet incident s'est produit à quelques jours de la visite de GWB au Moyen-Orient.
Another U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, called it "the most serious provocation of this sort that we've seen yet."
ChiMike, the English sentence is right below in the opening post.
As I understood the request, the attempt is to translate the French into English, not vice-versa, since, in fact, the English text given does not contain the "qui plus est" and the "to this day" in the translation is not what an American would say. It would be "to date" or, as in the original text: "yet".
If I am mistaken, your translation into French is fine, but I did not note any problems in the original French (as opposed to the English). It appears to me to be the usual journalistic translation from English to French.
I am sorry, I thought that sudest had trouble with the parts indicated in bold.