Sentence examples of "étonnant" in French
Il est étonnant de constater que les Iraniens, auxquels les Arabes ont imposé l'Islam en les battant militairement, sont devenus ses plus zélés adeptes au point d'opprimer ceux du Zoroastrisme, qui est pourtant la religion de leurs propres pères. Une sorte de syndrome de Stockholm à l'échelle nationale.
It is astonishing to witness that the Iranians, onto whom the Arabs imposed Islam through military defeat, have become its most zealous followers to the point of oppressing those of Zoroastrianism, though it is the religion of their own fathers. A kind of Stockholm syndrome on the national scale.
Les ascenseurs du gratte-ciel s'élèvent à une vitesse étonnante.
The skyscraper's elevators ascend at an astonishing rate of speed.
La station spatiale internationale est une étonnante prouesse technologique.
The international space station is an amazing feat of engineering.
J'ai été plus d'une fois intoxiqué, mes passions ont toujours été près de l'extravagance : je n'ai pas honte de l'avouer ; car j'ai appris, par ma propre expérience, que tous les grands hommes, qui ont accompli de grandes et étonnantes actions, ont été dénoncés par le monde comme intoxiqués ou malades.
I have been more than once intoxicated, my passions have always bordered on extravagance: I am not ashamed to confess it; for I have learned, by my own experience, that all extraordinary men, who have accomplished great and astonishing actions, have ever been decried by the world as drunken or insane.
Je suis étonnée que votre famille ait une voiture japonaise.
I am surprised that your family has a Japanese car.
Je suis étonné qu'elle ait refusé une si bonne offre.
I am surprised that she refused such a good offer.
J'ai cherché une chanson sur YouTube et il y avait d'innombrables remixages ; j'ai été étonné de combien étaient des succès !
I looked up a song I liked from a movie in YouTube and there were countless remixes; I was surprised at how many were hits!
Rien ne saurait étonner un Américain. On a souvent répété que le mot "impossible" n’était pas français; on s’est évidemment trompé de dictionnaire. En Amérique, tout est facile, tout est simple, et quant aux difficultés mécaniques, elles sont mortes avant d’être nées.
Nothing can take an American by surprise. It has often been said that the word "impossible" was not a French one. People have obviously looked in the wrong dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple and mechanical difficulties are overcome before they arise.
Tom est complètement obsédé par la bouffe. Pas étonnant que Mary l'ai largué !
Tom is utterly obsessed with food. No wonder Mary dumped him!
Pas étonnant que tu aies la migraine, avec ce que tu as bu hier soir.
No wonder you've got a headache; the amount you drank last night.
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