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French to English translations [PRO] Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / literature | |||||
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Anatole France |
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les changements meme les plus souhaites ont leur melancolie even the most desired changes of job entail melancholy Explanation: my take |
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les changements meme les plus souhaites ont leur melancolie even the most desired/wished for changes have their gloom Explanation: or: downside -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2017-05-17 00:21:52 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- or: sadness -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2017-05-17 00:22:29 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- I prefer "sadness" in a poetic context -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2017-05-17 00:23:58 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- or: are tinged with sadness/gloom -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2017-05-17 00:39:59 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- "gloom" definitely sends a warning so... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2017-05-17 00:41:38 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- gloom ɡluːm/Enviar noun 1. partial or total darkness. "he strained his eyes peering into the gloom" sinónimos: darkness, semi-darkness, dark, gloominess, dimness, blackness, murkiness, murk, shadows, shade, shadiness, obscurity; Más 2. a state of depression or despondency. "a year of economic gloom for the car industry" |
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les changements meme les plus souhaites ont leur melancolie after the joy of changing [of the most desired changes] comes sorrow Explanation: The "known" proverb, "After joy comes sorrow" could be adapted somehow. Or any of the versions here, http://www.biblestudytools.com/proverbs/14-13-compare.html Another idea (maybe way more "free") would be adapting the known maxim, "Better the devil you know than the devil you dont' know." |
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even the most desired changes have their downsides Explanation: slightly more idiomatic than reusing "melancholy" |
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Reference: Anatole France Reference information: http://dicocitations.lemonde.fr/citations/citation-46860.php "Tous les changements, même les plus souhaités, ont leur mélancolie." Anatole France http://www.linternaute.com/citation/24464/tous-les-changemen... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 6 hrs (2017-05-17 05:47:27 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Just for interest, here's one translation: Tous les changements, même les plus souhaités ont leur mélancolie, car ce que nous quittons, c'est une partie de nous-mêmes; il faut mourir à une vie pour entrer dans une autre. All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anatole_France -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 7 hrs (2017-05-17 06:03:16 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Seems to be 'the' translation: "All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy” http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/626795-all-changes-even-the-... |
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