J'ai un texte de 35 lignes à traduire et j'aurai besoin de votre aide pour traduire certains passages si vous voulez bien m'aider.
ex : "The wind bent the grass into tawny waves"
Le vent pliait les herbes dans …
Je n'arrive pas à traduire "tawny waves" à cause de "tawny". "waves" = ondes, vagues, ondulations
Je serais tenté de choisir "ondulations".
Mot à mot : Le vent courbait l'herbe en ondes bronzées.
La même idée (l'herbe qui ondoie sous le vent, avec des reflets fauves) s'exprimerait différemment en français, de façon moins synthétique. A toi de jouer.
Merci Zorah. Voici le texte complet pour que vous puissiez vous repérer si je vous demande de l'aide :
By now the tall was almost dry, so that there issued from it a sharper sighing when the wind blew. The wind blent the grass into tawny waves, on the crests of which floated the last survivors of flowers, and shrivelled and were sucked under by the swell. All day the horses and the cattle swam through this grass sea. Their barrels rolled and gurgled. All night the beasts were glutting themselves on dew and grass, but in the dreams of men the waves of grass and the waves of sleep were soon one. Dogs curied in pockets of the grass, shivered and bristled as they floated on their own dreams.
It was the dogs that first confirmed the German's opinion that they must be in the vicinity of Jildra. On a certain evening, as the expedition continued to advance, the dogs had begun to whine, and yelp, and lift their legs repeatedly. Their muzzles ahd grown leaner, the eyes were bulging from their skulls, when with very litlle further warming, suddenly foreign tails, then the bodies of foreign dogs were emerging from the grass. Thus having come together, the two parties of animals were stalking round and round, in stiff, shocked silence, awaiting some sign.
The members of the expedition had shaded their eyes with their hands, as an extension to the already broad brims of their hats, and eventually one of them, Mr Judd it was, remarked that he coul see a man approaching on horseback above the waving grass. Other eyes were soon focused on this figure who came on through the red light, firmly clamped by the thighs to the saddle just enough to emphasize the arrogance of ownership, it was discolsed that the man himself was of a reddish, chesnut coulour, intensified by the evening sun.
There he was, at last, reining in. The suspicious horse snorted.
"Boyle is my name," announced the man, on thick lips, holding out a hand that did not wawer.
"Of Jildra," added Voss.
"That is correct."
No further civilities were expended on the meeting, but Mr Boyle turned his horse, and proceeded to escort the party along the track he had made by his coming. The band of sweating horses, straigh mules, lowning, heavy-headed cattle, and parched, tingling men went on towards Jildra.
Il y a peut être quelques petites coquilles. La phrase "Their barrels rolled and gurgled" doit être étoffée lorsque je traduis à mon avis.
Je serais tenté de traduire par "Les tonneaux qu'ils portaient roulaient et gargouillaient."
Merci d'avance pour votre aide.
Je suis très mauvais en version anglaise. J'espère que je vais m'améliorer.
