Usage examples of "at the edge of" in English with translation to French

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When the farmer drops dead off the tractor, then at the edge of the forest, there must be a reactor. Lorsque le fermier tombe raide mort de son tracteur, ça veut dire qu'il doit y avoir un réacteur à l'orée du bois.
He sat at the edge of the stream. Il s'est assis au bord du ruisseau.
The top spun perilously close to the edge of the table. La toupie tournait dangereusement près du bord de la table.
He stood on the edge of the cliff. Il se tenait au bord de la falaise.
He chipped the edge of the tea cup. Il ébrécha le bord de la tasse à thé.
This road will take you down to the edge of Lake Biwa. Cette route vous amène au bord du lac Biwa.
As was unusual for me, I got tired quickly and I sat down on the edge of a rock. Étrangement, je me fatiguai rapidement et m'assis sur le bord d'un rocher.
I shouldn't have put my laptop so close to the edge of the table. Je n'aurais pas dû poser mon portable aussi près du bord de la table.
Don't put the glass near the edge of the table. Ne mets pas le verre au bord de la table.
She almost took him to the edge of bankruptcy. Elle l'a presque mené au bord de la banqueroute.
My pencil fell off the edge of my desk. Mon crayon est tombé du coin de mon bureau.
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center. Je veux me tenir aussi près du bord que je le peux sans aller au-delà. Du bord, on voit toutes les sortes de choses qu'on ne peut voir depuis le centre.
Tom, alone, bent over the left edge of the sentence, was hesitating to jump, to put an end to all this story. Tom, seul, penché au bord gauche de la phrase, hésitait à sauter, pour en finir avec toute cette histoire.
It's amazing that he won the championship at the age of nineteen. C'est incroyable qu'il a gagné le championnat à l'âge de 19 ans.
Tom and Mary were on the verge of diving, off the left edge of the sentence, in the infinite corpus, when they spotted underneath a shoal of hungry contributors, teeth out, ready to jump on them and shred their mistakes down to the last one. Tom et Mary s'apprêtaient à plonger, du bord gauche de la phrase, dans l'infini corpus, lorsqu'ils virent au-dessous un banc de contributeurs affamés, les dents dehors, prêts à leur sauter dessus et à déchiqueter leurs fautes jusqu'à la dernière.
Researchers at the university of Paderborn have established that it took up to 2000 hours of English learning for a French speaker to speak English correctly. Given that there are 32 weeks of classes in a year and with 3 hours of lessons every week, 20.83 years of study are thus necessary for a French person to speak good English. Des chercheurs de l'université de Paderborn ont établi qu'il fallait 2000 heures d'apprentissage de l'anglais à un francophone pour parler correctement. Sachant qu'il y a 32 semaines de cours par an et à 3h de cours par semaine, il faut donc 20,83 ans d'études à un Français pour bien parler anglais.
If my plane doesn't crash, and if I do not get kidnapped by organ thieves, I will drop you a line at the beginning of the week. Si mon avion ne s'écrase pas, si je ne me fais pas enlever par des voleurs d'organes, je vous passe un coup de fil en début de semaine.
Get off at the next stop and take a bus headed to the airport. Descends au prochain arrêt et prends un bus à destination de l'aéroport.
Look at the large building over there. Regardez le grand immeuble là-bas.
Every flatterer lives at the expense of whom listens to them. Tout flatteur vit aux dépens de celui qui l'écoute.
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