Usage examples of "chemin creux" in French with translation to English

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Pensez à poster la lettre sur le chemin de l'école. Remember to mail the letter on your way to school.
Nous sommes dans le creux des affaires, on s'en sort à peine, c'est pourquoi nous n'avons pas la possibilité de prendre un temps partiel. We're in a slump, barely scraping by, so we certainly don't have the margin to take on a part-time worker.
Le voyageur s'est arrêté pour me demander le chemin. The traveler stopped to ask me the way.
Le lendemain matin elle me dit dans le creux de l'oreille: «Nous rentrons à Paris ce soir. Il dit qu'il n'est pas question qu'il me laisse seule dans un endroit aussi triste. C'est comme ça.» The following morning she said close to my ears: "We're going back to Paris tonight. He says that there's no way that he'll leave me alone in such a sad place. That's how it is."
Il se perdit sur le chemin du village. He got lost on his way to the village.
Sa voiture tomba en panne sur le chemin. Her car broke down on the way.
Ne te mets pas dans mon chemin. Don't stand in my way.
Cet enfant a pu être enlevé sur le chemin de chez lui. That child may have been kidnapped on his way home.
Le seul chemin est vers le haut. The only way is up.
J'ai été surpris par une averse sur le chemin du retour à la maison. I was caught in a shower on my way home.
Le chemin zigzaguait le long de la pente raide. The path zigzagged up the steep slope.
Montrez-moi le chemin, voulez-vous ? Show me the way, will you?
Il reste un long chemin à parcourir. There's still a long way to go.
Le garçon ne pouvait trouver son chemin hors du labyrinthe. The boy could not find his way out of the maze.
Elle perdit son chemin, et pour comble de malchance, il se mit à pleuvoir. She lost her way and on top of that it began to rain.
Trouver son chemin dans Nagoya est très facile. Tu n'as qu'à regarder les panneaux. Finding one's way around Nagoya is very simple. All you do is look at the signs.
Hors de mon chemin, gamin. Out of my way, boy.
Je l'ai rencontrée sur le chemin de l'école. I met her on my way to school.
Je rentrais à la maison depuis un endroit au bout du monde, à environ trois heures d'un sombre matin d'hiver, et mon chemin conduisait à travers une partie de la ville où il n'y avait littéralement rien à voir que des lampes. I was coming home from some place at the end of the world, about three o'clock of a black winter morning, and my way lay through a part of town where there was literally nothing to be seen but lamps.
Je me suis égaré et j'ai eu du mal à retrouver le chemin de l'hôtel. I got lost and had a hard time finding my way back to the hotel.
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