Re : EN>FR: disease-modification trial + unclear sentence

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Dear Margaret,

thank you for your relevant advice (indeed, it may be better to translate the

overall article before the abstract!).

Moreover, you're right, the author is a non-native English speaker: he is

French. Anyway, I will think about the sentence according to your feeling...

Best regards,

Audrey

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De : Margaret Hutchings

À : medical_translation

Envoyé le : Jeu 3 juin 2010, 10h 16min 48s

Objet : Re: EN>FR: " disease-modification " trial + unclear sentence

 

Audrey

This chunk does not sound like normal native English to me -perhaps

written by someone of Germanic origin??

Be that as it may, you have to try to understand it, eventually! I would

forget the whole abstract for the moment - abstracts are necessarily

300-350 word summaries of a great deal of material and are almost bound

to be difficult to understand unless you already know the material.

Start the translation at the " Introduction " and come back to the

abstract at the end when you have read/translated the whole thing.

Without doubt it will become clearer.

In particular I (native BE) have a problem with these huge strings of

nouns without prepositions, e.g.

<no fully satisfying efficacy “disease-modification†study design

exists> (= no disease-modification study design exists that is fully

effective?/ no fully satisfying disease-modification study design exists

that is effective?/ no disease-modification study design exists that

demonstrates drug efficacy? or what?)

At first glance, I think " This is inherent to " (correct English = This

is inherent in, which makes no sense here) = This is because of

and

" with respect to " should perhaps be something like " and consequently "

Hope that helps a bit

Margaret Hutchings