French term
France
Engineering, medicine, chemistry
Native in: Russian 
Works in: Russian to English, English to Russian, French to Russian
les plus belles révélations jaillissent
Could you help me? The context is about the guardian angel. The text:
Son pur esprit se fondait dans mon coeur humain pour que *les plus belles révélations jaillissent*. Nous suivions chaqun notre propre route tout en étant accrochés l'un à l'autre.
Thanks in advance for your help and comments!
Non-PRO (2): writeaway, Martin Cassell
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Proposed translations
professional author/editor French/Eng.
Native in: English
Works in: French to English, English to French, Spanish to English
the loviest revelations might spring forth
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Anne-Marie Grant (X)
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lundy
: very nice! (just need to correct typo - "loveliest")
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You come, You see, and YOU CONQUER!
Native in: Arabic
Works in: Arabic to English, English to Arabic, Arabic to French, and 2 more.
arouse
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to spark off/ "ignite" revelations
| Thank you, Tarik! |
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Martin Cassell
: doesn't quite feel like the right emotional register // just offering a native-speaker's view on the connotative aspects since, as you say, it IS literature, not engineering.
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thx for the comment:) It remains literature...
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Belize
Near Native Proficiency in Source langua
Native in: English
Works in: Portuguese to English, Dutch to English, French to English
the most beautiful revelations emerge/arise
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jaillir : Sortir soudainement.
| Thank you, Verginia! |
United States
Native in: Italian 
, English
Works in: Italian to English, French to English, German to English, and 2 more.
to bring forth the most beautiful revelations
His pure spirit melded with my heart to bring forth the most beautiful revelations.
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Martin Cassell
: pretty much the tournure that came to my mind
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Merci Martin!
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Anne-Marie Grant (X)
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Merci Anne-Marie!
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Evans (X)
: yes I think this expresses it naturally whilst remaining close to the original
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Merci Gilla!
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Lianne Wilson
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Merci Lianne!
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the most beautiful revelations sprang forth
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To stick more closely to the original construction: 'so that the most beautiful revelations sprang forth'
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or 'could/might spring forth'
| Thank you, Anne-Marie! |
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Tony M
: I'm not sure that changing the tense in EN actually helps render the idea of the 'pour que...'
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Poetic licence, but point taken. An alternative could be 'so that the most beautiful revelations sprang forth' or 'could spring forth'
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Verginia Ophof
: I Like this
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Thanks, Verginia
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writeaway
: agree with Tony. poetic licence is one thing but using the En past to express the Fr subjunctive loses a lot of the poetry of the French. don't understand the prob in any case. jaillir and révélation are in all dictionaries
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Thanks for your comments, writeaway
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Carol Gullidge
: agree re the tense/mode
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Yes - I promise to respect the subjunctive henceforth :)
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Martin Cassell
: this weakens or loses the purposive/causal link expressed by "pour que"
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Thanks for your comments, Martin
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Susan Nicholls
: I like the "and", the causal link is clear enough
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Thanks for your brave agree in the face of so much opposition!!
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to let the most wondrous revelations burst forth
I think you can be more adventurous than "beautiful" with "belles" here.
| Thank you, Emma! Thanks for your comment! |
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