Usage examples of "bête noire" in French with translation to English

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Plus bête un enfant est, plus mignon il semble à ses parents. The more foolish a child is, the cuter he seems to his parents.
Une obscurité noire est un exemple de pléonasme. A black darkness is an example of a pleonasm.
Je ne suis pas aussi bête que tu le penses. I'm not as stupid as you think I am.
Assise dans son fauteuil en peau de panthère, la jeune femme en lingerie rouge lisait à haute voix un livre intitulé « La princesse noire ». Sitting in her panther hide chair, the young woman, clad in red lingerie, was reading aloud a book titled "The Black Princess".
Je suis trop bête... J'essaie de t'expliquer des choses que je ne comprends pas moi-même. I'm so dumb... I'm trying to explain things to you that I don't understand myself.
La cheminée crache de la fumée noire. The chimney is belching black smoke.
"Le sorcier se déguise en bête, il met une peau sur sa tête et il se promène dans le bourg. C'est mon papa qui me l'a dit." "The sorcerer disguises himself as a beast, he wears a hide over his head and walks around town. It's my daddy who told me that."
Tom conduit une voiture noire, n'est-ce pas ? Tom drives a black car, doesn't he?
Cette bête est énorme ! That animal is huge!
Elle est très comme il faut dans une robe de soirée noire. She is very becoming in a black party dress.
Moins le blanc est intelligent, plus le noir lui paraît bête. The dumber the white man is, the more the black man looks dumb to him.
C'était une nuit noire. It was a dark night.
Ne sois pas aussi bête. Don't be so silly.
Je préférerais la noire, là. I would prefer the black one, there.
Ne soyez pas aussi bête. Don't be so silly.
Tout à coup, la sonnette de la porte de devant tinta et l'ombre noire d'un homme seul se glissa tranquillement à l'intérieur. All of a sudden, the front door bell rang and the dark shadow of a lone man slipped in quietly.
C'est vraiment bête. That's really stupid.
Ses cheveux sont de couleur noire et sont longs. His hair is black in color and long.
Il n'est pas aussi bête qu'il en a l'air. He isn't as stupid as he looks.
La garde-robe d'une femme n'est pas complète sans une petite robe noire. A woman's wardrobe isn't complete without a little black dress.
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