These doors and pieces are shotgun hole full of time stamps

French translation: criblés de témoignages du passé

15:38 Nov 6, 2017
English to French translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Architecture / woodwork, millwork
English term or phrase: These doors and pieces are shotgun hole full of time stamps
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.
soperilleux
Local time: 05:46
French translation:criblés de témoignages du passé
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Marion Feildel (X)
Türkiye
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3 +5criblés de témoignages du passé
Marion Feildel (X)
4ces portes et pièces sont criblées d'impacts de balle qui constituent des témoins historiques
FX Fraipont (X)


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these doors and pieces are shotgun hole full of time stamps
ces portes et pièces sont criblées d'impacts de balle qui constituent des témoins historiques


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

FX Fraipont (X)
Belgium
Local time: 05:46
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
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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these doors and pieces are shotgun hole full of time stamps
criblés de témoignages du passé


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Marion Feildel (X)
Türkiye
Local time: 07:46
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agree  GILOU: 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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