Usage examples of "avoir esprit ailleurs" in French with translation to English

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Tout univers suffisamment simple pour être compris est trop simple pour produire un esprit capable de le comprendre. Any universe simple enough to be understood is too simple to produce a mind able to understand it.
Les livres sont destinés aux gens qui voudraient être ailleurs. Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
Nul doute que tu dois être exténué après avoir travaillé toute la journée. You must be worn out after working all day.
Un esprit satisfait est une fête perpétuelle. A contented mind is a perpetual feast.
Et pas seulement cela, les marchandises dans les magasins de la marque étaient en général plus chères que partout ailleurs. And not only that, the goods in the company shop were usually more expensive than elsewhere.
Puis-je avoir un programme ? May I have a program?
L'humour peut être disséqué comme une grenouille, mais la chose meurt dans l'opération et les entrailles rebutent quiconque à l'exception du pur esprit scientifique. Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
On peut affirmer avec certitude qu'une famille ayant l'intention d'émigrer en Australie, ou ailleurs, a en tête l'image d'une belle maison, ou d'un studio, peut-être avec un jardin. It is fairly safe to say that the family bound for Australia, or wherever it may be, has in its mind a vision of a nice house, or a flat, with maybe a bit of garden.
Il a démenti avoir dit une telle chose. He denied having said such a thing.
La beauté n'est pas une qualité dans les choses elles-mêmes: elle existe seulement dans l'esprit qui les contemple; et chaque esprit perçoit une beauté différente. Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
Notre maison brûle et nous regardons ailleurs. Our house is burning and we look elsewhere.
Commencer, c'est avoir à moitié fini. [Horace] Well begun is half done.
Les livres sont les enfants de notre esprit. Books are the offspring of one's mind.
Emmène-moi ailleurs. Take me away.
J'aime avoir plein de choses à faire. I like having plenty to do.
Prendre un bain m'aide à libérer mon esprit de mes soucis. Taking a hot bath helps me take my mind off my worries.
Elle s'assit près de lui en souhaitant qu'elle fut ailleurs. She sat next him wishing she were somewhere else.
Il devrait avoir le droit de décider par lui-même. He should have the right to decide for himself.
Un esprit universel est quelqu'un qui en connaît un paquet sur un tas de trucs. A polymath is someone who knows a whole lot about a whole lot.
Elle s'assit près de lui en souhaitant être ailleurs. She sat next him wishing she were somewhere else.
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