Usage examples of "autre temps, autre mœurs" in French with translation to English

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D'un autre côté, il y avait l'annonce de temps nouveaux. On another plane there was the prediction of a new age.
Ô temps, ô mœurs ! Oh the times! Oh the customs!
Autre pays, autres mœurs. When in Rome...
"De temps à autre, je pense à divorcer." "Tu plaisantes ? !" "Now and then I think of divorcing him." "You must be kidding!"
Il m'a écrit de temps à autre. He wrote to me from time to time.
Il m'écrivit de temps à autre. He wrote to me from time to time.
J'entends parler de lui de temps à autre. I hear from him every now and then.
Robert vient me rendre visite de temps à autre. Robert comes to visit me every now and then.
Les kakis sont hautement nutritifs et un mets très délicat, mais de temps à autre, vous tombez sur un qui est amer. Persimmons are highly nutritious and a great delicacy, but sometimes you get a sour one.
Elle vient me voir de temps à autre. She comes to see me from time to time.
De temps à autre, je pense à ma mère qui n'est plus en vie. From time to time, I think about my mother who is no longer living.
Nous les rencontrons de temps à autre. We sometimes meet them.
Je lui ai rendu visite de temps à autre durant mon séjour à Paris. I visited him at intervals during my stay in Paris.
Lorsque je me trouvais à Paris, j'ai fait la connaissance de deux ou trois peintres, et suis allé visiter leurs ateliers de temps à autre. J'étais toujours fasciné par leur méthode de travail et leur mode de vie. When I was in Paris, I became acquainted with two or three painters, and I went to visit their atelier from time to time. I was always fascinated by their method of work and their way of life.
Je pense qu'il est temps que j'écrive à ma mère une autre lettre. I think it's time for me to write my mother another letter.
Il fut un temps où Christophe Colomb défia un autre navigateur en duel. Ce dernier, un homme vicieux, ne fit pas 10 pas, comme dicté dans les règles, mais 2, puis il se retourna pour tirer. Malheureusement pour lui, Colomb ne fit aucun pas. There was a time when Christopher Columbus challenged another explorer to a duel. The latter, an underhanded chap, did not take ten steps - as dictated by the rules - but two, then turned around to shoot. Unfortunately for him, Columbus hadn't taken any steps at all.
Nous gâchâmes beaucoup de temps. We wasted a lot of time.
Il est aussi intelligent que n'importe quel autre garçon de la classe. He is as smart as any other boy in the class.
Elle est de mœurs légères. She's sexually promiscuous.
Il est temps de se concentrer sur les affaires. It's time to get down to business.
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