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

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The beggar rattled a few meager coins in his tin can. Le mendiant faisait s'entrechoquer quelques maigres pièces dans sa boîte de conserve.
On Saturday evenings everybody in the family had a bath one after another in an old tin bath in front of the fire. Les samedis soirs chaque membre de la famille prenait un bain, l'un après l'autre, dans une vielle baignoire en étain en face du feu.
Bronze is composed of copper and tin. Le bronze est composé de cuivre et d'étain.
In the 1970’s the Ontario Censor Board banned the film "The Tin Drum" from the Günter Grass novel, but the media found this silly, and so the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation CBC, showed the offending scene that night from coast to coast on the national news. Dans les années soixante-dix, le comité de la censure de l'Ontario interdit le film « Le Tambour » d'après le roman de Günter Grass, mais les médias trouvèrent cela stupide et donc la Société Radio-Canada, SRC, montra les scènes offensantes ce soir-là, d'une côte à l'autre, dans le journal national.
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