English term
France
Professional translation
Native in: French
Works in: English to French, German to French
much less
J'ai un doute pour la traduction de "much less" dans la phrase suivante "They recognize that one of the most common risks is much less high-technologies"
Merci !
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Antoine Dequidt
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| 5 | encore moins de |
Francois Boye
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| 4 +1 | beaucoup moins |
Daryo
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Jan 9, 2015 09:51: Jean-Christophe Vieillard changed "Language pair" from "German to French" to "English to French"
Jan 9, 2015 10:06: Emanuela Galdelli changed "Term asked" from "\"much less\"" to "much less"
Non-PRO (1): Tony M
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Proposed translations
France
ACSERV SAS - Les Ingénieurs du Verbe®
Native in: French 
Works in: English to French, Spanish to French
beaucoup moins
Sauf si le contexte peut laisser penser que la traduction de "much less" pourait ^tre "plus ou moins" dans ce cas spécifique. Tout dépend de la langue maternelle du rédacteur du texte en anglais.
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Simo Blom
12 mins
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Merci
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OLMOS
2 hrs
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Merci
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cyr-traductions
2 hrs
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Merci
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Jean-Claude Gouin
5 hrs
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Daryo
: with the way it's used
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Tony M
: Agree with Saryo: although the term itself is correct, the way you have used it in your suggested phrasing makes it seem as if you hadn't understood the source text correctly.
10 hrs
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United States
An economic geek with social skills
Native in: French
Works in: English to French, French to English, Spanish to English, and 1 more.
encore moins de
Sorry! my QWERTY keyboard does not allow me to input accents in French or Spanish.
beaucoup moins
"Ils admettent qu'un des risques les plus communs a beaucoup moins un caractère de technologie de pointe"
"Ils reconnaissent qu'un des risques les plus communs a bien moins un caractère de technologie de pointe"
is much less high-technologies = Hi Tech is used as adjective, describing the level of sophistication of this risk
one example: users making note of their password on a Post-It and sticking it to their monitor - nothing "Hi Tech" is a piece of paper, but the risk for the security of the whole network is still there.
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Tony M
: Right explanation, use as an adjective here (what is unusual is using it as 'high-technologies' instead of 'high-technology' or just 'hi-tech')
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yes that is unusual, but there's no doubts that it's used as adjective. Thanks!
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