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20:10 Jul 22, 2017 |
French to English translations [Non-PRO] Art/Literary - Archaeology / ancient art | |||||
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| Selected response from: Tony M France Local time: 01:34 | ||||
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4 | must have been used to hold |
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must have been used to hold Explanation: Of course, this is a 'must' in the form of a supposition! Would we call that a 'suppository must'?! I suppose not... Note that 'vide' probably doesn't mean 'left empty': when it is used as a countable like this 'le vide', it more likely means a hole, hollow, etc. — you may be able to tell what kind it is from the picture; I assume it is a kind of narrow, curved-bottomed hollow that would allow the mirror to be stoond on edge; or perhaps just a shalllow round depression to hold it flat... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 10 heures (2017-07-23 06:20:42 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Oh, and "en pareil cas" here probably means 'in that case' rather than 'in such cases'. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 10 heures (2017-07-23 06:23:12 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- We had this sort of use of 'devait' in a LudoZ not that many months ago, and ther was a lot of debate about it, as people though 'must' seemed too strong; but I don't see any problem with what is after all normal EN usage in a historical context, when talking about how it is supposed something worked / was used, etc. — "It must have been a hard life being a mariner on sailing ships." |
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