Mar 26, 2007 23:48
17 yrs ago
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French term
vient compléter
French to English
Bus/Financial
Finance (general)
microfinance
Context:
Outre le fait que vos valeurs en dépôt soient en sécurité dans nos banques grâce à une technologie adaptée et unique, nous accordons une attention extrême à votre sécurité dans nos locaux, en particulier pour vos opérations de caisse.
Pour ce faire, le professionnalisme de nos collaborateurs vient compléter un dispositif sophistiqué de sécurité physique.
In order to do this, our colleagues' professionalism (?!) (has just) (is coming to) complete a sophisticated physical safety device.
WHAT??
Outre le fait que vos valeurs en dépôt soient en sécurité dans nos banques grâce à une technologie adaptée et unique, nous accordons une attention extrême à votre sécurité dans nos locaux, en particulier pour vos opérations de caisse.
Pour ce faire, le professionnalisme de nos collaborateurs vient compléter un dispositif sophistiqué de sécurité physique.
In order to do this, our colleagues' professionalism (?!) (has just) (is coming to) complete a sophisticated physical safety device.
WHAT??
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 +1 | Rephrase a little |
Conor McAuley
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| 4 +4 | comple(men)t(e)s |
Bourth (X)
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| 3 | as promised |
Marc Glinert
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Change log
Mar 27, 2007 00:16: Vladimir Dubisskiy changed "Language pair" from "Russian to English" to "French to English"
Proposed translations
+1
15 hrs
Conor McAuley
France
France
Native in English
Specializes in field
France
Excellence, Expertise & Experience
Native in: English (Variants: Scottish, Irish, British, Wales / Welsh, UK)
Works in: French to English, English
Related KudoZ points
:
127
Selected
Rephrase a little
In addition to
Combined with
"The professionalism of our staff combined with/in addition to...etc enables us to do so."
"
This is simply a way of saying X + Y.
I personally don't like "complement" in English (sorry Alex), even though it is the best word-for-word translation, I prefer something more idiomatic.
Combined with
"The professionalism of our staff combined with/in addition to...etc enables us to do so."
"
This is simply a way of saying X + Y.
I personally don't like "complement" in English (sorry Alex), even though it is the best word-for-word translation, I prefer something more idiomatic.
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thank you very much. And everybody else, particulrly Marc for getting rid of my devices."
+4
37 mins
comple(men)t(e)s
"venir compléter" just means "(to) complete", possibly "(to) complement". "venir" simply adds the notion of "adding to", "being tacked on to complete" and need not be translated in its own right.
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Note added at 39 mins (2007-03-27 00:28:42 GMT)
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You could always say "the ADDED/EXTRA professionalism of our workforce/people completes ..." or "To cap it all off, the professionalism ...", etc.
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Note added at 39 mins (2007-03-27 00:28:42 GMT)
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You could always say "the ADDED/EXTRA professionalism of our workforce/people completes ..." or "To cap it all off, the professionalism ...", etc.
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
David Goward
: "complements"
4 hrs
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| agree |
Jacqui Audouy
6 hrs
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| agree |
Marc Glinert
: with you on the meaning Bourth but I would, indeed will, go for a less direct approach.....
11 hrs
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| agree |
Conor McAuley
: I like "to cap it all off" but complements is not to my taste, sorry
14 hrs
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12 hrs
Marc Glinert
Native in English
Specializes in field
20 years in financial services
Native in: English 
Works in: English to French, French to English
Related KudoZ points
:
109
as promised
...the professionalism of our staff further strengthens a sophisticated set of physical secrity procedures.
'fraid there are no devices, kajuco
'fraid there are no devices, kajuco
Discussion
Incidentally, Sheila, I feel the need to say that I was not confusing it with "venir DE" - I was being open to the possibility that there had been a typing mistake. There's no reason why that should matter to you or anyone else, but my amour propre had been wounded.