diff --git a/ecc/12/01.md b/ecc/12/01.md index 2366a3a923..d883b1f460 100644 --- a/ecc/12/01.md +++ b/ecc/12/01.md @@ -1,12 +1,15 @@ +# General Information + +This chapter gives a series of disconnected pieces of advice. Translators should not try to smooth the transitions between them. The advice given do not apply in every situation, so they should be seen as "good ideas". The ULB sets poetry (12:1-7 and 12:13-14) farther to the right to show that it is poetry. + # call to mind -This is an idiom. Alternate translation: "remember" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-idiom]]) +"remember" # before the days of difficulty come -Future time is spoken of as if the "days are coming" Alternate translation: "before you experience difficult times" or "before bad things happen to you" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]]) +"before you experience difficult times" # before the years arrive when you say, "I have no pleasure in them" -Future time is spoken of as if "years arrive" Alternate translation: "before you become old when you say, 'I no longer enjoy being alive'" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]]) - +"before you become old when you say, 'I no longer enjoy being alive'" \ No newline at end of file