the combination threatened for a time to be unstoppable

French translation: une combinaison imbattable

14:09 Apr 25, 2008
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English term or phrase: the combination threatened for a time to be unstoppable
Période post Empire romain

Out of Arabia came another military force[...]. From the 630s, Arab armies, united under the banner of the new religion of Islam, swept through the peninsula and then outwards to overwhelm the tired autocraties of Byzantium and Persia. The islamic victory was not achieved at first through any superior technology - although the Arab armies use of the camel for transport doubtless assisted them in the desert terrain of many of their victories - but through the cohesive inspiration of ideology.. When the new religion spread to the Turkic horse archers of the Central Asian steppes by the 9th c., the combination threatened for a time to be unstoppable.

- Un problème de compréhension : "combination" se rapporte-t-il à islam+archers turcs ?
- Un problème de formulation

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Stéphanie Soudais
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Local time: 12:06
French translation:une combinaison imbattable
Explanation:
cette juxtaposition techico-idéologique risquait pendant un moment de s'avérer imbattable
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5cette combinaison menaçait pendant quelque temps d'être imparable
Bunsen (X)
3 +1une combinaison imbattable
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4cette combinaison des deux parut un instant imparable
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une combinaison imbattable


Explanation:
cette juxtaposition techico-idéologique risquait pendant un moment de s'avérer imbattable

CMJ_Trans (X)
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agree  Platary (X): le glaive et le goupillon cela va plus vite à cheval qu'à chameau ?
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cette combinaison des deux parut un instant imparable


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cette combinaison menaçait pendant quelque temps d'être imparable


Explanation:
je trouves que, dans le contexte de passage, cette version de la traduction est plus précise

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Local time: 05:06
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