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the influence to match

French translation: tout comme son influence

17:00 Jan 21, 2019
English to French translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Mechanics / Mech Engineering / cleaning machines
English term or phrase: the influence to match
For other industries, connectivity is still in its infancy, with the influence to match, but players in these fields learn from, and are inspired by, one another.

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Gwenl
France
Local time: 01:15
French translation:tout comme son influence
Explanation:
en est à ses premiers balbutiements, son (pouvoir d')influence aussi
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4 +4tout comme son influence
polyglot45
5il en va de même pour ce qui concerne l'influence
Debora Blake
2 +1avec un poids correspondant
Tony M


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51 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
il en va de même pour ce qui concerne l'influence


Explanation:
Cette phrase fait référence à la connectivité qui n'est pas encore très développée. Pas beaucoup de connectivité induit, logiquement, pas beaucoup d'influence. Autrement dit, le niveau d'influence a un rapport à la connectivité, d'où l'idée de "to match".

Debora Blake
France
Local time: 01:15
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Tony M: So are you saying that "connectivity is in its infancy, and the same goes for influence"? I think this is a bit of a clunky way of rendering the s/t... Ten words to translate four...?
13 mins
  -> ;-) Not clunky. With good punctuation, it'll do the job just fine. 1. Asker didn't ask for subtitling 2. You know VOFR texts are hardly ever shorter than their EN translations. 3. I chose those 10 words to do the VO EN justice. ;-)
neutral  Daryo: where from do you get the idea that for A to "match" B there must be some links of causality between A and B??
10 hrs
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55 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +1
with the influence to match
avec un poids correspondant


Explanation:
I think in fact you probably need to treat the sentence as a whole, in order to produce something more idiomatic in FR.
It also probably depends rather a lot on the wider context: I'm assuming that 'in its infancy' means not yet very well developed', so what they are saying is that it therefore isn't yet having much influence; but of course, it would be helpful to know what the overall standpoint of this article is, and also, if you can work out what it is that it might / ought to be having an influence on — I'm guessing something like 'the market for cleaning machines'?
I suspect in FR it would be best to spell out in which sense this 'influence' is 'corresponding', by making it explicit that it is not a very great influence (if that is indeed the case!).

Tony M
France
Local time: 01:15
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 531

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Debora Blake: Tony, part of the idea is there, but overall this sounds a bit ambiguous. Compared to the English, it's not explicit enough.
40 mins
  -> Ambiguous? Once slotted into the rest of the sentence, it should work just fine.
agree  Daryo: definitely yes for "correspondant", but I would leave "influence"
10 hrs
  -> Thanks, Daryo! I'd feel happier if we knew more precisely what the document was implying 'was being influenced'? I suspect it just means 'not yet weighing in for much in the market' — not 'counting', whence my idea...?
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
tout comme son influence


Explanation:
en est à ses premiers balbutiements, son (pouvoir d')influence aussi

polyglot45
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 55
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Tony M
12 mins
agree  GILLES MEUNIER
9 hrs
agree  Daryo
9 hrs
agree  B D Finch
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