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Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

sont soignées

English translation:

spotless, immaculate

    The asker opted for community grading. The question was closed on 2019-07-11 21:54:07 based on peer agreement (or, if there were too few peer comments, asker preference.)
Jul 8, 2019 19:48
4 yrs ago
French term

sont soignées

French to English Art/Literary Other
Métro de Montréal - Station Jarry. Jour d’inauguration du métro. Les stations sont soignées sous tous leurs angles.
Proposed translations (English)
4 +4 spotless, immaculate
3 +1 are thoroughly spruced up
3 +1 it's clear the stations have been designed and built with a great deal of care and attention
3 look like they have been carefully done/built

Discussion

Germaine Jul 8, 2019:
Paraît qu’une image vaut mille mots:
https://archivesdemontreal.ica-atom.org/metro-station-jarry-...

Proposed translations

+4
1 hr
Selected

spotless, immaculate

I think the reference is to their appearance, not their design and construction.
http://www.wordreference.com/fren/soigné

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Note added at 1 hr (2019-07-08 21:42:19 GMT)
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They're gleaming because they're new.
Peer comment(s):
agree Germaine : et encore... Il y a des endroits où ils ont oublié le plancher...
12 mins
agree Michele Fauble
2 hrs
agree Julie Barber
14 hrs
agree GILLES MEUNIER
3 days 19 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
+1
38 mins

are thoroughly spruced up

This is the meaning. Lots of ways to express it.
Note from asker:
thank you!
Peer comment(s):
neutral philgoddard : Except these are presumably new stations, so you can't really spruce them up.
5 mins
neutral Tony M : With Phil on this one; surely it's more about the attention to detail that has been used in their design and construction?
17 mins
agree Germaine : They cleaned up the place. D’autres stations étaient déjà en service. I don’t doubt the care in the construction, but the attention to detail in the design depends on the location of the station.
1 hr
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+1
58 mins

it's clear the stations have been designed and built with a great deal of care and attention

Assuming this is indeed new infrastructure.

It's always dangerous to use 'carefully', as something of a faux ami — but I think in a case like this, 'care and attention' is quite a good solution.

Of course there are many other ways you might express the sentence as a whole.

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Note added at 1 hr (2019-07-08 20:52:50 GMT)
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"A great deal of care and attention has gone into..." etc. etc.
Note from asker:
thank you!
Peer comment(s):
agree Simon Charass : This is my take of it too. The station has been designed with care and attention to details.
17 hrs
Thanks, Simon!
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23 mins

look like they have been carefully done/built

Probably.

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Note added at 2 hrs (2019-07-08 22:01:47 GMT)
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Note from asker:
thank you!
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