Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

Frozen up

French translation:

Figées

Added to glossary by Emmanuella
Sep 18, 2020 01:34
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English term

Frozen up

Non-PRO English to French Other General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters
Hi everyone. Can you please help me translate this? Thank you very much everybody. Frozen up .

That night before he was to quit, there was an explosion on the oil rig . there were three who were killed instantly . the rest were burned . different parts . the Christian was 90 % of his body . he heard the screaming and the flesh burning . he was running himself and he saw the man who had mocked him so much . he saw him on fire and he pulled him away from the blaze . it was nothing on his charcoaled . his hands frozen up . he had nothing left but his eyeballs . his ears was gone, his nose was gone, everything was gone . did he cry out to God ? no he didn’t.

La nuit précédant son départ, il y a eu une explosion sur la plate-forme pétrolière . trois personnes ont été tuées sur le coup . les autres ont été brûlées sur différentes parties du corps . le chrétien fut brûlé à 90 % de son corps . il a entendu les cris et la chair brûlée . il courait et il a vu l'homme qui s'était tant moqué de lui . il l'a vu en feu et l'a éloigné de l'incendie. ses mains étaient paralysés. il n'avait plus rien, excepté ses globes oculaires. ses oreilles et son nez avaient disparu, tout avait disparu . a-t-il crié à Dieu ? non, il ne l'a pas fait.

His hands frozen up.

Ses mains étaient carbonisées.

Ses mains étaient paralysées.

Ses mains étaient gelées.

Ses mains étaient congelées.

Ses mains étaient figées.
Proposed translations (French)
4 Figées
3 carbonisées
Change log

Sep 24, 2020 07:31: Emmanuella changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/2891704">jenny morenos's</a> old entry - "Frozen up"" to ""Figées""

Sep 24, 2020 07:31: Emmanuella changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/1363133">Emmanuella's</a> old entry - "Frozen up"" to ""Figées""

Discussion

Éva MYGARDON Sep 18, 2020:
je dirais 'congelées' si c'est parce qu'elles sont froides, mais clairement d'après le contexte c'est davantage 'paralysées'.

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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thank you so much for your help. I truly had no clue what the term frozen up meant in this context. "
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carbonisées

ses mains carbonisées
Note from asker:
Thank you so much for your help. I didn't know whether frozen up meant like extremely cold, unable to move his hands, or totally burnt, in this context. 
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