translation from French into English (phrasal verbs)

CalifJim wrote:

In sentence 3, is "knocked over" wrong then? Yes, I'd say it's wrong.  If you want the idea of a car running into a person, it's get run over (or possibly get run down). Is there a nuance in French between "être capable de" et "pouvoir"? I think Pieanne has answered this.  I would have said that the first has to do with one's inner power of character to do something, almost like "have the guts to", "have the kind of character required to", and the second is a more ordinary ability, but I may be wrong.You're not wrong ar all. But we also use it to emphasize progresses made. For example, we may say that a disabled person, after lots of training, is now "capable de marcher de X à Y" (I really don't want to offend anyone) But then I may not be the right person to blabber about this, because I'm quite biased by the Belgian "savoir", which I used liberally!  Is pas cap replacing chiche for a dare? I wonder. No, it isn't... it's just a fashion. They say "T'es cap' de sauter du mur?" - "T'es même pas cap d'embrasser une fille!"  I don't like that expression! CJ

meet up is OK, but very informal to my ear.

1)  I'm going on vacation for two weeks.  (AmE)
If you have to choose between the choices shown, choose a.
holiday is BrE.  I can't speak for BrE.

2) loomed - no.  loomed up - no.  appeared - yes.

To me, looming has a connotation of danger, foreboding, enormity, and mystery.  It's not the most ordinary of words by a long shot.  I don't believe I've used it in the last 15 years, though I may have read it once or twice in that same period.

A huge black stealth plane would probably be able to do some looming more easily than a small perky white one!

CJ

Annvan, these are certainly not "useless extra-information" for me. Thank you for participating to this post.

Dear teachers, what about the use of "meet UP" instead of "meet" in sentence 2?

"let's meet UP (?) at 10 o'clock" ?

If this exercice interest you I have more translations in stock. So see you on my next post.

Hela

Sorry, I didn't see it

Pieanne, would you please look at my post entitled "is this sentence correct?".

Have a nice day