j’ai pilé,

English translation: braked

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French term or phrase: j’ai pilé,
English translation:braked
Entered by: Izzy Hornby

15:36 Nov 12, 2020
French to English translations [Non-PRO]
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French term or phrase: j’ai pilé,
This is an road accident report that happened in France. The driver of a lorry is giving account of the accident where a motobike hit the front of his lorry.

The whole sentence is:

J’ai cramponné le volant, j’ai pilé, tout en serrant à droite dans le fossé pour l’eviter, mais il m’est rentré dans l’avant du camion.

Target country is England,

My translation is I grabbed the steering wheel, steered
Izzy Hornby
United Kingdom
Local time: 15:24
braked
Explanation:
braked but really hard, UK ENG would be slammed on the brakes or stamped on the brakes
Selected response from:

Margaret Morrison
United Kingdom
Local time: 15:24
Grading comment
Yes. It was helpful.
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1 min   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +12
braked


Explanation:
braked but really hard, UK ENG would be slammed on the brakes or stamped on the brakes

Margaret Morrison
United Kingdom
Local time: 15:24
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Yes. It was helpful.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Sarah Bessioud: Yes, slammed on the brakes
4 mins

agree  Verginia Ophof: slammed on the brakes
8 mins

agree  Kathleen Johnson
22 mins

agree  Tony M: "Braked as hard as I could" might be more prudent, as avoids any implication of braking so hard that he risked skidding. "Did an emergency stop" might be less informal for EN-GB
27 mins

agree  polyglot45: I slammed on the brakes/I sat in the brakes//I hit the brakes hard
54 mins

agree  Mollie Milesi: Yes -- I slammed on the brakes
1 hr

agree  SafeTex: Yes, it's more than braked. More like "slammed on the anchors" but I'm not proposing that necessarily
1 hr

agree  Michele Fauble
1 hr

agree  John ANTHONY: Yes, slammed on the brakes
1 hr

agree  AllegroTrans: slammed on the brakes
3 hrs

agree  Yvonne Gallagher: Slammed on the brakes
5 hrs

agree  James A. Walsh: Slammed on the brakes
20 hrs
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