Nov 6, 2017 15:38
6 yrs ago
English term

These doors and pieces are shotgun hole full of time stamps

English to French Tech/Engineering Architecture woodwork, millwork
Bonjour
Je suis tombée sur cette phrase dans un programme sur la restauration de vieux bâtiment. Le présentateur explique que son équipe doit démonter, avec le plus grand soin, une porte ancienne (pour la reposer ailleurs) et s'extasie sur le caractère historique de cette porte. D'où cette phrase. Que je ne suis pas sûre de bien comprendre et que je ne vois pas bien comment rendre en français. Merci d'avance pour vos idées et vos pistes.

Discussion

B D Finch Nov 7, 2017:
@FXFraipoint In response to your reply to my comment on your answer: there was no writer, as this was apparently a TV programme presenter, who would be likely to have been speaking in his mother tongue. I assume that before the days of bullets, such marks would have been a variety of sword, pike, hatchet and dagger cuts and puncture marks, burnt wood, traces of dried blood etc.

Proposed translations

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criblés de témoignages du passé

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Peer comment(s):

agree GILLES MEUNIER : ces portes et éléments sont.....
2 mins
merci Gilles, j'ai voulu faire court.
agree mchd
8 mins
merci !
agree Cécile A.-C.
49 mins
merci Cécile !
agree Daryo
7 hrs
merci Daryo !
agree Gleyse
9 hrs
merci !
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
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ces portes et pièces sont criblées d'impacts de balle qui constituent des témoins historiques

these doors and pieces are full of shotgun holes (which make up) time stamps
Peer comment(s):

neutral Daryo : it's extremely unlikely that these are literal shotgun holes; I can hardly imagine a "history" worth getting ecstatic about consisting of decades/centuries of hunters using the door for target practice ...
8 hrs
agree Mary Carroll Richer LaFlèche : They could be from the war...you could put "d'impacts de balle qui constituent" in brackets.
16 hrs
disagree B D Finch : These are not real shotgun holes. Soldiers do not use shotguns, which are used for hunting small animals and birds, not as weapons of war. I also believe that shotguns only date from the 19th or early 20th century.
20 hrs
that's if you consider the sentence was written by a native English speaker... Town gates for example are full of bullet holes - how else could they testify to the violent history of the building?
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