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pocketed areas

French translation: mosaïque de petits quartiers

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English term or phrase:pocketed areas
French translation:mosaïque de petits quartiers
Entered by: Willa95

17:40 Feb 5, 2016
English to French translations [PRO]
Marketing - Tourism & Travel
English term or phrase: pocketed areas
Bonsoir,

On parle ici de Rome : "The Eternal City is a mosaic of pocketed areas vying to show off their must-sees."
"La Ville éternelle est un dédale de coins et recoins, chacun désireux de montrer ses trésors."

Comment comprenez-vous ce "pocketed" ici ?

Merci
Willa95
France
Local time: 02:06
mosaïque de petits quartiers
Explanation:
pocketed = what has the size of a pocket = small
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Francois Boye
United States
Local time: 20:06
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Summary of answers provided
4 +4mosaïque de petits quartiers
Francois Boye
4 +2une mosaïque de quartiers de caractère distinct
Daryo
4de villages
chaplin
3espaces différenciés
Jocelyne Cuenin


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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
mosaic of pocketed areas
mosaïque de petits quartiers


Explanation:
pocketed = what has the size of a pocket = small

Francois Boye
United States
Local time: 20:06
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 31

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agree  Marie Rollet
2 hrs
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agree  Annie Rigler
13 hrs
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agree  Yoann Peyron
1 day 11 hrs
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agree  Gleyse
1 day 13 hrs
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
de villages


Explanation:
On dit souvent que Paris est un ensemble de villages, chacun ayant sa propre personnalité, alors pourquoi pas Rome?

chaplin
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:06
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Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in category: 12
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17 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
a mosaic of pocketed areas
une mosaïque de quartiers de caractère distinct


Explanation:
a pocket = a delimited/defined areas that is different from its surroundings

as in "a pocket of resistance" = "une poche de résistance"

IOW the point is that each of these "pocketed areas" has something specific to it. = "un quartier de caractère distinct"


Elle se divise en quatre quartiers bien distincts, dont chacun a un nom et un caractère particuliers; la Nouvelle -Ville, la Vieille- Ville, le Petit-Côté et le Hraschin, ...

Là, chaque quartier a ses ... mais «une multitude de petits tableaux distinct* et renfermes chacun dans un cadre à part. Les monuments, l«s rues, les places, les maisons même ont leur caractère particulier ... s'étant, au contraire, LA MOSAÏQUE.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=DiFbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA275&lp...

if all these "pocketed areas" were to be same/without any distinctive character,
---- it wouldn't be a mosaic (each piece of a mosaic is supposed to be of a different colour) and
---- these "pocketed areas" wouldn't have any "unique selling point" to compete between themselves (=> "... vying to show off their must-sees")

the key point of these "pockets" is their distinctiveness, not the simple fact that there are many of them.

Daryo
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:06
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Native speaker of: Native in SerbianSerbian, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 16

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Premium✍️: *à* caractère distinct. Ou 'quartiers bien distincts' tt simplement.
10 hrs
  -> Merci!
neutral  Francois Boye: That there is a mosaic entails that the areas in question are distinct. So your translation is pleonastic.
12 hrs
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agree  GILLES MEUNIER
2 days 3 hrs
  -> Merci!
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23 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
espaces différenciés


Explanation:
une autre idée : qui se différencient les uns des autres (aussi à cause de la topologie : collines, par exemple)
voir page 160
L'image de Rome: une arme pour la Contre-Réforme, 1534-1677
https://books.google.de/books?isbn=2903528934
Gérard Labrot - 1987 - ‎Art, Baroque
... comprendre, du moins d'entrevoir, au delà de la sécheresse énumérative, ce pouvoir que possèdent les bâtiments de façonner des espaces différenciés dans ...


La ville en quartiers: découpages de la ville en histoire ...
https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00002778/
de PY Saunier - ‎1991 - ‎Cité 6 fois - ‎Autres articles
Ou plutôt modifier l'idée que nous faisons de la division spatiale des villes, à savoir une fixation d'espaces différenciés qui ont leurs limites, leur sens social et ..


Les enjeux de l'agriculture, du bocage et de la forêt - Atlas des ...
http://www.atlasdespaysages-morbihan.fr/spip.php?article96
Vallée de l'Oust, Pleugriffet: Le paysage agricole morbihannais se présente le
plus souvent comme une mosaïque d'espaces différenciés : cultures céréalières,


    Reference: http://books.google.de/books?id=A61OHJ6KBDEC&lpg=PA32&ots=Z-...
Jocelyne Cuenin
Germany
Local time: 02:06
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
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