Usage examples of "imbécile" in French with translation to English

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Bill est un vrai imbécile. Bill is a regular fool.
L'homme est le seul animal susceptible de devenir imbécile. Man is the only animal subject to becoming an imbecile.
Vous devez être un imbécile. You must be a fool.
Tu me prends pour un imbécile ? Do you take me for a fool?
Me prends-tu pour un imbécile ? Do you take me for a fool?
Mon frère est un imbécile. My brother is an idiot.
Quand arrêteras-tu de rire comme un imbécile ? When are you going to stop laughing like an idiot?
Je ne crois pas en une superstition imbécile. I have no faith in a silly superstition.
Il a tué l'oie comme un imbécile. He killed the goose, foolishly.
Tu es un imbécile de sortir par un temps pareil. You are an idiot to go out in this weather.
Merci de m'avoir expliqué finalement pourquoi on me prend pour une imbécile. Thanks for having explained to me at last why people take me for an idiot.
N'importe quel imbécile peut détruire une grange, mais il faut un menuisier pour en construire une. Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
Marie voulait un tatouage qui signifiât « Amour et fidélité » mais il signifie en vérité « Imbécile d'étranger » en chinois. Mary wanted a tattoo that meant "Love and Fidelity", but it really means "Stupid Foreigner" in Chinese.
Lorsqu'un imbécile rapporte les paroles d'un homme intelligent, ce n'est jamais exact, puisqu'il traduit inconsciemment ce qu'il entend en quelque chose qui lui est compréhensible. A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand.
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