Usage examples of "beau geste" in French with translation to English

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Ce pull bleu est très beau. This blue sweater is very pretty.
Pour une fois dans ma vie je fais un bon geste... Et ça ne sert à rien. For once in my life I'm doing a good deed... And it is useless.
Une période de beau temps nous permit de mettre la récolte à l'abri. A spell of fine weather enabled us to get the harvest in safely.
L'acceptabilité d'un geste social dépend d'innombrables facteurs culturels. The acceptability of a social gesture depends on innumerable cultural factors.
Vous aurez beau étudier de toutes vos forces, vous n'arriverez pas à maîtriser l'anglais en un an ou deux. No matter how hard you may study, you cannot master English in a year or two.
Comme l’eau, comme le gaz, comme le courant électrique viennent de loin dans nos demeures répondre à nos besoins moyennant un effort quasi nul, ainsi serons-nous alimentés d’images visuelles ou auditives, naissant et s’évanouissant au moindre geste, presque à un signe. Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and disappear at a simple movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign.
À Pâques il fait rarement beau temps. It's rarely nice weather at Easter.
Condillac, avec le sensationnalisme, révolutionna le concept de l'esprit, faisant du langage et du geste les précurseurs des idées, faisant voler en éclats la conception de Locke du langage comme simple médium passif. Condillac, with sensationalism, revolutionised the concept of mind, making language and gesture prior to ideas, shattering Locke's conception of language as a mere passive medium.
Tout le monde est beau et gentil à tes yeux. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes.
Si toute votre vie vous vous abstenez du meurtre, du vol, de la fornication, du parjure, du blasphème et de l'outrecuidance envers vos parents, votre église et votre roi, on vous considérera conventionnellement comme digne d'admiration morale, même si vous n'avez jamais fait un seul geste gentil ou généreux. If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, your church, and your king, you are conventionally held to deserve moral admiration even if you have never done a single kind or generous or useful action.
Le temps peut être beau demain. It may possibly be fine tomorrow.
Il y faisait beau et frais. It was nice and cool there.
Être beau a aussi son revers. Being handsome also has its downside.
Ce pont est encore plus beau vu du ciel. Seen from the sky, the bridge appears more beautiful.
Ceux qui ne croient pas que le latin est le plus beau langage du monde ne comprennent rien. People that don't think Latin is the most beautiful language understand nothing.
Penses-tu qu'il fera beau demain, dehors ? Do you think it will be nice out tomorrow?
Un beau matin, je me suis réveillé célèbre. I awoke one morning to find myself famous.
J'avais beau m'y entraîner, j'étais incapable de faire le dos crawlé. No matter how hard I practiced, I wasn't able to do the backstroke.
Jamais je n'ai vu un si beau coucher de soleil. Never have I seen such a beautiful sunset.
Je dois me faire beau. I have to dress up.
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