Usage examples of "porté deux mains" in French with translation to English

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Tiens le ballon des deux mains. Hold the ball with both hands.
Tiens la caisse avec les deux mains. Hold the box with both hands.
Tiens la caisse des deux mains. Hold the box with both hands.
Tiens-le à deux mains. Hold it with both hands.
Elle tint ses deux mains sur ses oreilles pour ne pas entendre le bruit. She held her two hands on her ears to not hear the noise.
Tenez-le à deux mains. Hold it with both hands.
Tiens le vase avec les deux mains. Hold the vase with both hands.
Tiens la boîte des deux mains. Hold the box with both hands.
Deux mains applaudissent et il y a un son. Quel est le son d'une seule main ? Two hands clap and there is a sound. What is the sound of one hand?
Tenez-la à deux mains. Hold it with both hands.
Il attrapa la corde des deux mains. He grasped the rope with two hands.
Tiens-la à deux mains. Hold it with both hands.
Elle agitait ses deux mains pour qu'il puisse la trouver. She waved both her hands so that he could find her.
Il y a deux sortes de travail dans le monde : celui de la tête et celui des mains ; intellectuel et manuel. There are two kinds of work in the world--head work and hand work; mental and manual.
Baisse les mains ! Put your hands down!
Les Français sont vraiment un peuple bizarre : parmi ceux qui lisent cette phrase, un sur deux va vérifier si l'espace avant le double point est bien fine et insécable. The French are a really strange people: every other person who reads this sentence will check if the space before the colon is really thin and non-breaking.
Tu peux te rendre compte que l'architecte a porté une attention scrupuleuse aux détails. You can see that the architect paid scrupulous attention to detail.
Haut les mains ! Hands up!
Il a deux filles, l'une est pianiste, l'autre violoniste. He has two daughters, one is a pianist and the other is a violist.
J'ai porté une valise, mais l'autre a été laissée sur place. I carried one bag, but the other one was left behind.
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