Sentence examples of "collect call" in English
From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.
Tout ce que je puis conclure de vos discours, c’est que vous êtes bien deux des plus sottes filles du pays. Il y a longtemps que je m’en doutais, mais j’en suis maintenant convaincu.
Drastic times call for drastic measures.
Les temps exceptionnels appellent des mesures exceptionnelles.
The natives collect and store rain-water to drink.
Les indigènes récupèrent et emmagasinent l'eau de pluie pour boire.
We're releasing all the sentences we collect under the Creative Commons Attribution license.
Nous publions toutes les phrases que nous rassemblons sous une licence Creative Commons Attribution.
No sooner had I hung up the phone than there came another call.
À peine avais-je raccroché le téléphone qu'il re-sonna.
If time were reversed, raindrops would collect themselves from the ground and fly up to the clouds.
Si le temps était inversé, les gouttes de pluie remonteraient du sol et s'envoleraient vers les nuages.
"Honey, quick, quick. There's this website called Tatoeba that's auctioning it's sentence collection for a cent each! They've even got special offers like buy 100 sentences and get 1 free!" "Ah great! now people collect sentences as a hobby?! what's the world coming to!"
Chérie, vite, vite. Ce site web, Tatoeba, vend ses collections de phrases aux enchères pour un cent chacune ! Ils ont même une offre spéciale du type pour cent achetées on vous en offre une !" "Ah super ! maintenant les gens collectionnent les phrases ! mais où va le monde ?"
Researchers found that subjects could collect double the amount of money for charity when they were wearing clothes with designer logos.
Des chercheurs ont découvert que des sujets pouvaient collecter deux fois plus de dons pour les œuvres lorsqu'ils portaient des vêtements de marques.
Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex.
Seul un intellectuel masculin embrumé par le désir sexuel a pu nommer le beau sexe le modèle réduit, aux épaules étroites, aux hanches larges et aux jambes courtes.
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