Usage examples of "distance moyenne" in French with translation to English

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Il tenait les envahisseurs à distance à la mitrailleuse. He kept the invaders at bay with a machine gun.
Votre dissertation anglaise est au-dessus de la moyenne. Your English composition is above the average.
La distance entre les étoiles se mesure en années-lumière. The distance between stars is measured in light years.
Ma note à l'examen d'anglais était à peu près à la moyenne de la classe. My mark in the English examination was about the class average.
À quelle distance est l'aéroport ? How far is it to the airport?
La bouffe dans le nouveau restaurant n'a rien d'extraordinaire ; au mieux, moyenne. The food at the new restaurant is nothing special - average at best.
La lieue a comme origine la distance que peut parcourir un homme ou un cheval en une heure. The league originally referred to the distance a person or a horse could walk in an hour.
Il étudiait en moyenne dix heures par jour. He studied ten hours a day on average.
Quelle distance y a-t-il d'ici à la mer ? How far is it from here to the sea?
Ton travail est en dessous de la moyenne. Your work is below average.
Il doit être un bon marcheur pour avoir couvert une distance aussi longue. He must be a good walker to walk such a long distance.
Cette année, j'ai une meilleure moyenne que toi ! This year, my Grade-Point Average is better than yours!
À quelle distance se trouve le prochain village ? How far is it from here to the next village?
Au pire, il aura une note moyenne. He will get an average mark at worst.
Quelle distance environ ? How far?
Ce parti s'efforce toujours de flatter la classe moyenne. That party is always pandering to the middle class.
Chokichi sentait vivement que les gens, à mesure qu'ils vieillissent, oublient entièrement les soucis que seuls les jeunes peuvent connaître et dont ils ont eux-mêmes fait l'expérience dans leur jeunesse ; et qu'ils prennent nonchalamment cette attitude facile où ils jugent durement les circonstances des jeunes de la nouvelle génération. Il sentait qu'il y avait réellement une distance irréconciliable entre les vieux et les jeunes. Chokichi keenly felt that people, as they get older, forget entirely about the worries that only young people know about and that they themselves experienced in their youth; and that they nonchalantly take this convenient disposition where they judge harshly the circumstances of the young persons born of the next generation. He felt that there was truly an irreconcilable gap between the old and the young.
Il étudie en moyenne dix heures par jour. He studies ten hours a day on average.
Quelle distance y a-t-il d'ici à chez vous ? How far is it from here to your house?
J'ai trouvé un jour dans une école un garçon de taille moyenne qui maltraitait un petit garçon. Je lui ai fait la leçon, mais il a répondu : "Les grands me frappent, alors je frappe les petits ; c'est juste." Par ces paroles, il a résumé toute l'histoire du genre humain. I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.
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