15:43 Mar 13, 2021 |
French to English translations [PRO] Ships, Sailing, Maritime | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Conor McAuley France Local time: 17:01 | ||||||
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4 | exit of the port / port's exit |
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3 +1 | port exit |
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3 | outside the port, beyond the port limits |
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3 | the port's exit |
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outside the port, beyond the port limits Explanation: If "la sortie du port" is indeed defining a fixed point or area, then "la sortie" means outside the port, on the other side of the port limits. This avoids the question of entrance/exit. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 8 hrs (2021-03-14 00:17:47 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Unless it means "the removal of" something or other from the port, physically or figuratively. I see that has also been suggested in the discussion session. Either is possible from the context we have. With regard to "roads", the term "rade" would have been referred to which is apparently not the case in this part of the text. |
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exit of the port / port's exit Explanation: Sortie = exit |
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port exit Explanation: Obvious answer, but I do have a bit of an explanation. If you don't have a natural harbour (i.e. an area of sea protected from the ocean), you create one by contructing harbour walls). The opening in the walls is, for me, the port exit, but it the text, they might mean the walls and associated building work (rocks to take the energy out of waves, etc.). The port proper will be made up of loading/unloading quays, maybe areas for container storage, passenger ferry facilities, areas for cranes, etc. Plenty of matches for "port exit", but nothing stand out. I did have Dun Laoighaire (pronounced "dun leery"), south Co Dublin in my mind's eye. Map here: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Dun Laoghaire Harbour/@53.... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 37 mins (2021-03-13 16:20:34 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- correction: in the text correction: stands out There's a stray close bracket in there too. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 42 mins (2021-03-13 16:25:44 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Of course, whether its's on the land side or on the sea side, it can be conceived of as both an exit and an entrance! But here we have "sortie" so it's exit. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 day 2 hrs (2021-03-14 17:58:53 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- From the Discussion: ""dredge an 18m-deep shipping channel"19:24 Mar 13 Click here to delete your post Click here to edit your post Could this be the port exit? https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/cote-divoire-approves-e... "In particular, most of the region’s harbours are unable to accommodate the huge container ships now favoured by shipping lines that are anxious to cut costs in a highly competitive logistics market." The text might be referring to dredging work in any port in West Africa that is being expanded. (I'm not assuming that the text is about a port in West Africa though.)" |
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