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English to French: David, Adam. Down on the pharm. Guardian Unlimited. [online]. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/apr/30/food.agriculture General field: Science
Source text - English The plants are tobacco, but they are not intended to be smoked. Instead, the scientists who work on them believe they could save lives. Each has been genetically engineered to carry a gene that is usually found in common algae. Inside its cells, the foreign DNA forces the tobacco plant to churn out a protein that is useless to it, but that happens to be a potent drug against HIV. The scientists say the drug, and others like it, could save millions of lives across the developing world. The technique has been dubbed pharmaceutical farming, or pharming, and it is emerging as the latest battleground in the war over genetic modification.
Translation - French Il s’agit de plants de tabac mais ils ne sont pas destinés à la confection de cigarettes ni de cigares. Au contraire, aux yeux des scientifiques travaillant sur le projet, ces plantes pourraient sauver des vies. Chacune a été génétiquement modifiée pour porter un gène qui se trouve normalement dans les algues communes. À l’intérieur des cellules, l’ADN étranger force la plante à produire en série une protéine qui lui est inutile mais qui, en fait, est un médicament puissant contre le VIH. Les scientifiques disent que ce médicament et d’autres semblables pourraient sauver des millions de vies dans les pays en développement. Cette technique, surnommée « agriculture pharmaco-moléculaire » ou « agro-pharmacologie transgénique », apparait comme le dernier champ de bataille dans la guerre sur la modification génétique.
English to French: Excerpt from “Man and the Universe” • Al-Badawi, Mostafa General field: Other Detailed field: Religion
Source text - English Our visible world, as well as other (to us) invisible worlds, take their contingent existences and reality from God. Higher, invisible worlds have their own purposes and realities just as our material realm does. All of creation is, of course, an interconnected whole, created by and entirely dependent on God; yet in relation to each other, each realm of existence is dependent on and a shadow of the realm above it, right up to the Attributes of God and, beyond that, God Himself, Exalted is He, Who can only be truly known by Himself. The higher the realm of existence, the ‘nearer’ to God it is, as it were, the more ‘real’ it becomes and the less conditioned it is in relation to whatever is below it. The ‘normal’ everyday world we believe we live and function in is affected immeasurably by the realities above it, whether we are aware of this or not. Knowledge of the invisible domains is not conjectural but based on scriptural evidence given to mankind by Divine revelation. More importantly, these domains are within the direct perception of divine Messengers and other illumined beings, who can see, hear, smell, and describe them from first-hand experience. This knowledge recedes into the background and then disappears as people become more materialistic and opaque; however, without it, an adequate understanding of the human situation is impossible.
Translation - French Notre monde visible, ainsi que d’autres mondes invisibles (à nous), tirent leurs existences contingentes et leur réalité de Dieu. Des mondes invisibles, plus élevés que le monde matériel, ont leurs propres raisons d’être et leurs propres réalités, tout comme le domaine matériel. Toute la création est, naturellement, un tout relié, créé par et complètement dépendant de Dieu ; mais, en relation un à l’autre, chaque domaine d’existence est dépendant, en même temps qu’il est une ombre, du domaine placé immédiatement au-dessus de lui, jusqu’aux attributs de Dieu. Au-delà de cela est Dieu Lui-même, L’Exalté, Qui ne peut être connu que par Lui-Même. Plus le domaine est élevé, plus il est « proche » de Dieu, on peut dire; et plus il est ‘réel’, moins il est conditionnel, relatif à ce qui est sous lui. Le monde « normal » de chaque jour où nous croyons vivre et fonctionner, est affecté d’une façon incommensurable par les réalités au-dessus de lui, que nous en soyons conscients ou non. La connaissance des royaumes invisibles n’est pas conjecturale mais s’enracine sur des preuves provenant des Écritures données à l’homme par la Révélation Divine. Encore plus important est le fait que les messagers divins et autres êtres illuminés perçoivent directement ces domaines : ils peuvent les voir, les entendre, les sentir et les décrire.
Alors que les êtres humains deviennent de plus en plus matérialistes et opaques, cette connaissance se retire jusqu’à sa disparition complète. Malheureusement, sans elle, une compréhension adéquate de la condition humaine est impossible.
English to French: Czerepinski, Kareema. Tajweed Rules of the Qur’an. Part 2. Pub: Dar al Khair. KSA, 2003] General field: Other Detailed field: Education / Pedagogy
Source text - English Two Divisions of Characteristics
1. الصِّفَات الأَصْلِيَّة Intrinsic or Basic Characteristics : These are characteristics that are part of the intrinsic make up of the letter and never leave the letter. This is what will be discussed in this section.
2. الصِّفَات العَرَضِيَّة Incidental or Conditional Characteristics: These are characteristics which are present in a letter in some cases, and not present in the letter in other cases. An example of this would be إدغام. These are covered in other areas of this book (included in part one), and not discussed in this chapter.
Translation - French Les deux grandes catégories de caractéristiques sont :
• الصِّفَات الأَصْلِيَّة Les caractéristiques essentielles ou de base : Il s’agit des caractéristiques qui font partie de la structure de base de la lettre et qui sont toujours présentes lors de sa prononciation. Ce sont celles-ci qui font l’objet de notre étude au présent chapitre.
• الصِّفَات العَرَضِيَّة Les caractéristiques contingentes ou conditionnelles : Il s’agit des caractéristiques qui sont présentes en certaines circonstances seulement. Un exemple de ce type de caractéristique est الإدغام. L’étude des caractéristiques conditionnelles ne figure pas au présent chapitre ; cependant, elle se trouve dans d’autres parties du présent manuel ainsi que dans le premier manuel.
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Years of experience: 15. Registered at ProZ.com: Mar 2012.
I was born in Quebec but spent many years in English Canada, in the United States and in the Middle East. My native language is French although I was brought up in an English-speaking suburb of Montreal, becoming bilingual and I would say bi-cultural as well early on. Then later, in Jeddah, I learned to read, write and converse - although not fluently - in Arabic.
This helped me to proofread a book translated from Arabic into French for Dr. Mostafa al Badawi, a psychiatrist working in Saudi Arabia. I then translated into French a book which Dr. Mostafa had written in English called Man and the Universe . I enjoyed the translation and had done other smaller projects before that. This prompted me to do the Translation Certificate Course “Certificat de traduction par Internet“ offered by the Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface. I obtained the certificate in May, 2008 with a 4.22 GPA. Since then I’ve worked on several books and have done smaller translations for a local agency.
My research skills are good and I can work in fields other than those I have experience in as long as the work is intended for the general public. I look forward to hearing from anyone interested in my services.
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