Examen de l’UE103 – Méthodologie de la Traduction (ne pas rendre cette feuille)
Entrée de l’Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary pour le verbe « drive »
drive /draIv/ verb, noun verb (drove /drəʊv; NAmE droʊv/, driven /drIvn/)
VEHICLE
1 to operate a vehicle so that it goes in a particular direction: [v] Can you drive? Don’t drive so fast! I drove to work this morning.
Shall we drive (= go there by car) or go by train? [vn] He drives a taxi (= that is his job).
2 [vn, usually + adv. / prep.] to take sb somewhere in a car, taxi, etc.: Could you drive me home?
3 [vn] to own or use a particular type of vehicle: What car do you drive?
MACHINE
4 [vn] [usually passive] to provide the power that makes a machine work: a steam-driven locomotive
MAKE SB DO STH
5 [vn] to force sb to act in a particular way: The urge to survive drove them on. You’re driving yourself too hard.
6 to make sb very angry, crazy, etc. or to make them do sth extreme: [vn-adj] to drive sb crazy / mad / insane [vn to inf] Hunger drove
her to steal. [vn] Those kids are driving me to despair.
MAKE SB / STH MOVE
7 [vn + adv. / prep.] to force sb/sth to move in a particular direction: to drive sheep into a field The enemy was driven back.
CAUSE STH TO MAKE PROGRESS
8 [vn] to influence sth or cause it to make progress: This is the main factor driving investment in the area.
HIT / PUSH
9 [vn + adv. / prep.] to force sth to go in a particular direction or into a particular position by pushing it, hitting it, etc.: to drive a nail into a
piece of wood
MAKE A HOLE
10 [vn + adv. / prep.] to make an opening in or through sth by using force: They drove a tunnel through the solid rock.
IN SPORT
11 to hit a ball with force, sending it forward: [vn] to drive the ball into the rough (= in golf) [also v]
WIND / WATER
12 [vn, usually + adv. / prep.] to carry sth along: Huge waves drove the yacht onto the rocks.
13 [v, usually + adv. / prep.] to fall or move rapidly and with great force: The waves drove against the shore.
IDM drive a coach and horses through sth to spoil sth, for example a plan
IDM drive sth home (to sb) to make sb understand or accept sth by saying it often, loudly, angrily, etc.: You will really need to drive your
point home.
IDM what sb is driving at the thing sb is trying to say: I wish I knew what they were driving at.-more at ground n., hard adj., snow n.
PHR V drive a way|
PHR V drive sb/sth a way to leave in a vehicle; to take sb away in a vehicle: We heard him drive away. Someone drove the car away then.
PHR V drive sb a way to make sb not want to stay or not want to go somewhere: Her constant nagging drove him away. Terrorist threats
are driving away tourists.
PHR V drive off 1 (of a driver, car, etc.) to leave: The robbers drove off in a stolen vehicle. 2 (in golf) to hit the ball to begin a game
PHR V drive sb/st off to force sb/sth to go back or away: The defenders drove off each attack.
PHR V drive on to continue driving: Don’t stop—drive on!
PHR V drive sb/sth out (of sth) to make sb/sth disappear or stop doing sth: New fashions drive out old ones. The supermarkets are
driving small shopkeepers out of business.
PHR V drive sth up / down to make sth such as prices rise or fall quickly
Paul Auster, Moon Palace (1989)
It was the summer that men first walked on the moon. I
was very young back then, but I did not believe there was a
future. I wanted to live dangerously, to push myself as far
as I could go, and then see what happened to me when I
got there. As it turned out, I nearly did not make it. Little
by little, I saw my money dwindle to zero; I lost my
apartment; I wound up living in the streets. If not for a girl
named Kitty Wu, I probably would have starved to death. I
had met her by chance only a short time before, but
eventually I came to see that chance as a form of readiness,
a way of saving myself through the minds of others. I
walked across the desert from Utah to California. That was
a long time ago, of course, but I remember those days well,
I remember them as the beginning of my life.
I came to New York in the fall of 1965. I was eighteen
years old then, and for the first nine months I lived in a
college dormitory.
Proposition de traduction
C’était l’été ou l’homme a pour la première fois posé le pied sur la
lune. J’étais très jeune en ce temps-là, mais je n’avais aucune foie dans
l’avenir. Je voulus vivre dangereusement, me pousser aussi loin que je
pouvais aller, et voir ce qui se passerait une fois que j’y serai parvenu. En
réalité, j’ai bien failli ne pas le faire. Petit à petit, j’ai vu diminuer mes
ressources jusqu’à zéro ; j’ai perdu mon appartement ; je me suis
retrouver à la rue. Sans une jeune fille du nom de Kitty Wu, je serais sans
doute mort de faim. Je l’avais rencontrée par chance très peu de temps
auparavant, mais éventuellement, j’ai fini par m’apercevoir qu’il s’était
moins agi de chance que d’une forme de disponibilité, une façon de
chercher mon salut dans la conscience d’autrui. J’ai marché à travers le
désert de l’Utah à la Californie. Ce fut il y a bien longtemps, certes, que
cela s’est passé, mais je me souviens bien de cette époque, je m’en
souviens comme du commencement de ma vie.
Je suis arrivé à New York à l’automne 1965. J’avais alors dix-huit
ans, et durant les premiers neufs mois j’ai habité dans une résidence
universitaire.