Usage examples of "lit de rivière" in French with translation to English

Il trouva la religion sur son lit de mort. He got religion on his deathbed.

Une nouvelle étude montre que l'usage du lit de bronzage peut entraîner une dépendance. A new study has shown that tanning bed use may cause addiction.

Son mari est sur son lit de mort. Her husband is about to die.

Le cerf dormait sur un lit de feuillages. The deer slept on a bed of leaves.

L'amour est une source naïve, partie de son lit de cresson, de fleurs, de gravier, qui rivière, qui fleuve, change de nature et d'aspect à chaque flot, et se jette dans un incommensurable océan où les esprits incomplets voient la monotonie, où les grandes âmes s'abîment en de perpétuelles contemplations. Love is like some fresh spring, that leaves its cresses, its gravel bed and flowers to become first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.

Soudain, le niveau de la rivière est monté et elle est sortie de son lit. All of a sudden, the river rose and broke its banks.

Il mesura la longueur du lit. He measured the length of the bed.

La rivière coulant au travers Londres est la Tamise. The river that flows through London is the Thames.

Il se mit au lit. He went to bed.

Personne ne peut pas descendre deux fois dans la même rivière. No one can step twice into the same river.

Tu devrais aller au lit. You should go to bed.

J'ai marché le long de la rivière. I walked along the river.

Ne te cache pas sous le lit. Don't hide under the bed.

J'avais l'habitude de nager dans cette rivière. I used to swim in this river.

Elle était clouée au lit hier du fait de sa maladie. She was sick in bed yesterday.

Il était impossible pour le garçon de traverser la rivière à la nage. It wasn't possible for the boy to swim across the river.

Le garçon tomba du lit. The boy fell off the bed.

Sa tentative de traverser la rivière a échouée. He failed in his attempt to swim the river.

Tom était malade au lit dimanche dernier. Tom was sick in bed last Sunday.

Je peux traverser la rivière à la nage. I can swim across the river.

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