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sclérosé

English translation: sclerotic

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French term or phrase:sclérosé
English translation:sclerotic
Entered by: philgoddard

21:23 Jun 23, 2014
French to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Marketing / Market Research / survey on Europe
French term or phrase: sclérosé
• Si, spontanément la qualité de vie en France est jugée plutôt bonne, ces premières impressions positives sont vite contrebalancées par des discours très négatifs à l’égard d’un pays perçu comme profondément sclérosé, en crise et en perte de vitesse.

Any good ieas for sclérosé ?
ormiston
Local time: 00:46
sclerotic
Explanation:
There's an exact equivalent in English, so you might as well use it.

Sclerotic
1. Medicine: Of or having sclerosis.
2. Becoming rigid and unresponsive; losing the ability to adapt: sclerotic management
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philgoddard
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3sclerotic
philgoddard
3 +2(hopelessly) in a rut
polyglot45
3 +1creaking at the seams
Nikki Scott-Despaigne
4stuck in the mud
Kate Collyer
3 +1paralyzed
Miranda Joubioux (X)
4debilitated/enfeebled
Yvonne Gallagher
4stuck in its ways
Emma Paulay
3ossified
Evgeny Artemov (X)
3in a quagmire
SafeTex
3chronically lacking in vitality
Mpoma


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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
creaking at the seams


Explanation:
One among tons of possibilities!

http://dictionnaire.reverso.net/francais-definition/sclérose...

au sens figuré : engourdir, empêcher l'évolution







Nikki Scott-Despaigne
Local time: 00:46
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agree  writeaway: agree-tons of ways to go. this is one. thesaurus time everyone!
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ossified


Explanation:
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Evgeny Artemov (X)
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14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
sclerotic


Explanation:
There's an exact equivalent in English, so you might as well use it.

Sclerotic
1. Medicine: Of or having sclerosis.
2. Becoming rigid and unresponsive; losing the ability to adapt: sclerotic management


    Reference: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_eng...
philgoddard
United States
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agree  nweatherdon: I often see this used in English [most especially relating to the economy and the situation of an economy - edit]. Well, often enough that I immediately thought the English analogue was most likely appropriate. And it seems it is.
3 hrs
agree  Sheri P
5 hrs
neutral  Nikki Scott-Despaigne: This is of course "right", but I would argue that it is simply not used to anything like the same extent as the French use "sclérosé". Ex. "pays sclérosé" almost 6K Ghits; "sclerotic country 560 Ghits. A less natural choice in EN.
13 hrs
agree  Dominic D: I think it would depend on the target audience. In France one hears the term very often but I think in EN it would be considered as quite literary and understood immediately by a well educated reader but difficult for less well read audiences
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14 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
stuck in the mud


Explanation:
Partly with atherosclerosis (fatty deposits in blood vessels) in mind, but also in its main sense of old-fashioned, fossilised, conservative.

Kate Collyer
United Kingdom
Local time: 23:46
Native speaker of: English
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15 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
paralyzed


Explanation:
This was the 1st thing that came to mind when I read your sentence.
I know it's not quite what it says in French, but I think it's what it means.

Miranda Joubioux (X)
Local time: 00:46
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Mpoma: yes, better than "sclerotic"... trouble is that "paralysed" is a bit too strong, even for the state of France!
1 day 3 hrs
  -> Is it? ;-) Thanks!
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16 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
(hopelessly) in a rut


Explanation:
whose get up and go has got up and gone

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Note added at 16 hrs (2014-06-24 14:12:18 GMT)
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what about "mummified" ?

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Note added at 16 hrs (2014-06-24 14:12:52 GMT)
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or completely antedeluvian

polyglot45
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 44
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Asker: I thought I had voted for this answer


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Mpoma: "mummified"! Wonderful, hilarious! Not sure about "antediluvian": surely T-Rex could move quite fast when peckish...
1 day 2 hrs
agree  writeaway
5 days
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20 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
in a quagmire


Explanation:
or alternatively, "bogged down" but then I would prefer to continue the sentence ie "...bogged down in bureaucracy" or whatever.

In a quagmire does not need anything to be added


    Reference: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/quagmire
SafeTex
France
Local time: 00:46
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1 day 18 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
chronically lacking in vitality


Explanation:
sorry, sorry, bit of a mouthful, I know. I love this phrase "sclérosé" here, for its horrific suggestion of someone sitting in a bath chair, gradually curling up on themselves, with a terminal medical condition for which there is no cure! Very Baudelaire, dare I say. Hence the choice of "chronically". I hope someone else can come up with a "snappier" phrase. I don't think "sclerotic" works though - figurative use too unusual in EN...

Mpoma
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debilitated/enfeebled


Explanation:
I think "sclerotic" is only for the most literate of readers and certainly not commonly used. These used and understood by more people I'd say with the advantage of showing a country lacking seemingly lacking vitality...as Mpoma has put

diminished, or crippled perhaps or even "hobbled"



Yvonne Gallagher
Ireland
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3 days 15 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
stuck in its ways


Explanation:
Another way to go.

Emma Paulay
France
Local time: 00:46
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Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 75
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