Comment traduisez-vous ça :

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Q: So, Atlantis existed during the ice age?
A: Largely, yes. And the world's climate was scarcely any colder away from the ice sheets than it is today.

Et le climat du monde était à peine plus froid que les couches de glace qu'il l'est aujourd'hui.
Je n'arrive pas à comprendre le lien entre les couches de glace et la température dans la phrase anglaise. Ne manquerait-il pas un mot ?

Thx.

 

[Joe]

"away from" means not near. Like Europe today is "away from" the ice sheets, i.e. not close to. So during Atlantis, the part of the world that was not close to the ice sheets experienced the same temperature that those same areas experience today.

 

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I get it ! :)
"away from" was not associated with a distance in my mind but with "colder".

Thx Perceval.