Bonjour,
Ce serait bien aimable à vous si vous pouviez me corriger ma traduction. Ce n'est pas un devoir à rendre donc je me suis permise de mettre plusieurs possibilités pour savoir si certaines des différentes versions que je donne sont bonnes. J'espère que vous n'y voyez pas d'inconvénient.
Mimis a un visage jeune, des yeux clairs, des cheveux fous et pas de barbe. Il boit beaucoup et nos conversations s'arrêtent parfois brusquement : je vois alors Mimis fixer l'horizon d'un air absent, plongé dans un monde dont nul ne saurait le tirer.
Mimis has a youthful looking face / young face, light eyes, crazy/funky hair and no beard. He drinks a lot and our conversations
(a) sometimes stop abruptly
(b) stop sometimes abruptly
(c) stop abruptly sometimes :
[je sais pas trop où mettre l’adverbe; le sens est-il différent en fonction de l'ordre de l'adverbe "sometimes" ?]
1) then I can see Mimis gazing at the horizon with a vacant air, immersed in a world FROM where no one can/could (?) pull him out OF (?).
OR
2) at that very moment I can see Mimis gazing at the horizon with an absent look, plunged into a world FROM where no one can/could get him out OF (?).
En fait, il boit depuis le jour (c'est du moins sa version) où sa femme le quitta en laissant sur la table une lettre qu'il connait par coeur et qu'il se met à réciter régulièrement à un certain stade de l'ivresse. Je me dis que la vérité est peut-être l'inverse : sa femme a dû le quitter parce que déjà il buvait trop, mais c'est là un point d'histoire que je ne saurais éclaircir.
Actually, he has been drinking since the day (at least that is / that's his version of the story) his wife left him, leaving on the table a letter that he knows by heart and that he starts reciting whenever he reaches a certain degree of drunkenness.
[Do I have to split the sentence in two to avoid the repetition of the verb « leave » in « his wife left him » and « leaving on a table »?]
1) I hold the truth to be quite the opposite: his wife must have left him because he was already drinking too much, but this is a detail in the story I am not / have not been able to clarify/clear up.
2) I believe that the truth may be the other way round: his wife must have left him because he was already drinking too much, but this is a part of the story I am not able to elucidate.
L'essentiel, c'est qu'avec Mimis le ouzo ne chôme pas - car il ne boit que ça - au point que je me demande comment il fait pour payer toutes ses tournées qu'il offre si généreusement à tout le monde. Mystère qui est celui de tous les grands buveurs du monde, qu'ils soient ou non pêcheurs grecs.
1) Most importantly, though, is that with Mimis we are/one is never short of ouzo –because that is/that's the only thing he drinks– to the point that / to such extent that / so much so that / insofar as [do all these expressions fit here?]
I wonder how he manages to pay for all the rounds (of drinks ?) that he generously offers to everybody. It is a/the mystery that all the (?) heavy drinkers around the world share, whether they are Greek fishermen or not.
2) What matters is that thanks to Mimis ouzo flows freely –because that is/that's the only thing he drinks– inasmuch as I wonder how he manages to pay for all the rounds that he generously offers to everybody. It is a/the mystery that revolves around all heavy drinkers in the world, be they Greek fishermen or not.
Thank you very much in advance.
Hela
Ce serait bien aimable à vous si vous pouviez me corriger ma traduction. Ce n'est pas un devoir à rendre donc je me suis permise de mettre plusieurs possibilités pour savoir si certaines des différentes versions que je donne sont bonnes. J'espère que vous n'y voyez pas d'inconvénient.
Mimis a un visage jeune, des yeux clairs, des cheveux fous et pas de barbe. Il boit beaucoup et nos conversations s'arrêtent parfois brusquement : je vois alors Mimis fixer l'horizon d'un air absent, plongé dans un monde dont nul ne saurait le tirer.
Mimis has a youthful looking face / young face, light eyes, crazy/funky hair and no beard. He drinks a lot and our conversations
(a) sometimes stop abruptly
(b) stop sometimes abruptly
(c) stop abruptly sometimes :
[je sais pas trop où mettre l’adverbe; le sens est-il différent en fonction de l'ordre de l'adverbe "sometimes" ?]
1) then I can see Mimis gazing at the horizon with a vacant air, immersed in a world FROM where no one can/could (?) pull him out OF (?).
OR
2) at that very moment I can see Mimis gazing at the horizon with an absent look, plunged into a world FROM where no one can/could get him out OF (?).
En fait, il boit depuis le jour (c'est du moins sa version) où sa femme le quitta en laissant sur la table une lettre qu'il connait par coeur et qu'il se met à réciter régulièrement à un certain stade de l'ivresse. Je me dis que la vérité est peut-être l'inverse : sa femme a dû le quitter parce que déjà il buvait trop, mais c'est là un point d'histoire que je ne saurais éclaircir.
Actually, he has been drinking since the day (at least that is / that's his version of the story) his wife left him, leaving on the table a letter that he knows by heart and that he starts reciting whenever he reaches a certain degree of drunkenness.
[Do I have to split the sentence in two to avoid the repetition of the verb « leave » in « his wife left him » and « leaving on a table »?]
1) I hold the truth to be quite the opposite: his wife must have left him because he was already drinking too much, but this is a detail in the story I am not / have not been able to clarify/clear up.
2) I believe that the truth may be the other way round: his wife must have left him because he was already drinking too much, but this is a part of the story I am not able to elucidate.
L'essentiel, c'est qu'avec Mimis le ouzo ne chôme pas - car il ne boit que ça - au point que je me demande comment il fait pour payer toutes ses tournées qu'il offre si généreusement à tout le monde. Mystère qui est celui de tous les grands buveurs du monde, qu'ils soient ou non pêcheurs grecs.
1) Most importantly, though, is that with Mimis we are/one is never short of ouzo –because that is/that's the only thing he drinks– to the point that / to such extent that / so much so that / insofar as [do all these expressions fit here?]
I wonder how he manages to pay for all the rounds (of drinks ?) that he generously offers to everybody. It is a/the mystery that all the (?) heavy drinkers around the world share, whether they are Greek fishermen or not.
2) What matters is that thanks to Mimis ouzo flows freely –because that is/that's the only thing he drinks– inasmuch as I wonder how he manages to pay for all the rounds that he generously offers to everybody. It is a/the mystery that revolves around all heavy drinkers in the world, be they Greek fishermen or not.
Thank you very much in advance.
Hela