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

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La plupart du temps, il ne s'endort pas avant deux voire trois heures du matin. Most of the time, he doesn't get to sleep before two or even three o'clock in the morning.
Environ un tiers de ces maladies est curable, mais les autres peuvent être graves, voire mortelles. About a third of these diseases can be cured, but the others may be serious, or even fatal.
Il vient rarement, voire pas du tout. He seldom, if ever, comes.
Il est rarement, voire jamais, en retard aux rendez-vous. He is rarely, if ever, late for appointments.
Il n'y a que peu de fautes, voire pas du tout. There are only a few mistakes, or perhaps none at all.
Il serait malavisé, voire stupide, de quitter ton premier emploi après seulement six mois. It would be unwise, not to say stupid, of you to quit your first job after only six months.
Le nettoyage du site de la centrale Fukushima Daichi pourrait prendre des années, voire des décennies. The cleanup at the Fukushima Daiichi plant could take years, possibly decades.
Ah, maintenant, je m'en souviens. J'avais mis un préservatif ; ce que je fais rarement, voire pratiquement jamais. Ah, now I remember. I used a condom; something I rarely, or rather practically never, do.
« Tom ! Réalises-tu que ces phrases sont très égocentriques : Elles commencent ou finissent toujours par toi ! Voire les deux ! », reprocha-t-elle à Tom. "Tom! Do you realise that these sentences are very self-centred: They always either begin with or end with you! Even both!" she reproached Tom.
Quand on les observe à une demi-douzaine d'années, ou plus, de distance, même les plus belles modes nous paraissent grotesques, voire disgracieuses. When seen in the perspective of half-a-dozen years or more, the best of our fashions strike us as grotesque, if not unsightly.
Il apprend le chinois tellement vite que tout le monde dit qu'il est très intelligent, voire qu'il a un don inné pour les langues. He learned Chinese so fast, everyone says he's very smart, that he really has a gift with languages.
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