Französisch: "on est aux prises"Englisch translation: grappling/wrestling with 
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| Glossareintrag (aus Frage unten abgeleitet) | | Französisch Begriff oder Satz: | "on est aux prises" | | Englisch Übersetzung: | grappling/wrestling with | | Eingetragen von: | Rimas Balsys |
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Marketing - Management/Verwaltung | | Französisch Begriff oder Satz: "on est aux prises" | | This talks about challenges facing managers of complex organisations. "Il est imperatif de planifier mais on est aux prises avec un degre d'incertitude eleve". I can think of various colourful translations of "on est aux prises" but I'd welcome suggestions ("caught on the horns of..."?) ...? |
| | | grappling/wrestling with | Erklärung:
Is there any particular reason for rejecting the same literal and metaphorical equivalents that we have in English?
"Une prise" is a "hold" in wrestling.
Hence the image is one of "grappling" or indeed "wrestling with".
Perhaps you think these are too "colourful", but I reckon if it is OK with the author to conjure up images of men in big pants rolling around on a mat, you can too :-)
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Charlie Bavington
Vereinigtes Königreich
| Hinweis von Fragesteller an den AntwortendenActually, I think "wrestling with", "grappling with", "at grips with", "contend with", "deal with", "faced with" - if you look at them - are all the same thing but in decreasing order of oomph. I
(Though "faced with" is probably too weak.)
In my particular context (a fairly punchy marketing spiel) I think "wrestling with" works best, but any of several would work depending on the actual tone of the surrounding text.
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| we're looking at/facing
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You can handle the colourful translations, so here's a down to earth one. Choice of verb depending on desired level of formality.
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| we are up against/we have to contend with
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it is more than just "faced" which is passive. We are really up against this problem
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even - we are struggling with
we are caught up in
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