Usage examples of "D'un côté" in French with translation to English

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D'un côté nous avons essuyé une lourde perte, mais d'un autre côté nous avons beaucoup appris de cette expérience. On the one hand we suffered a heavy loss, but on the other hand we learned a great deal from the experience.
Sa fausse moustache commença à se décoller d'un côté. His fake moustache started to peel off on one side.
Plutôt que des hommes insouciants et joyeux, je suis attirée par des hommes posés avec quelque chose d'un côté sombre. Rather than light-hearted and cheerful men, I'm attracted to sober men with a bit of a dark side to them.
On fouette maintenant moins qu'avant dans nos bonnes écoles, mais alors on y apprend moins ; ce qui fait que ce que les écoliers gagnent d'un côté, ils le perdent de l'autre. There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.
Être un anglophone est à double tranchant. D'un côté, tu parles la langue la plus utile au monde à la perfection; mais de l'autre, personne ne veut parler une autre langue avec toi, ce qui rend difficile l'apprentissage d'une langue étrangère. Being an anglophone is a double-edged sword. On one hand, you speak perfectly the world's most useful language. But on the other, no one wants to speak anything else with you - making foreign language acquisition difficult.
Le plus parfait des singes ne peut dessiner de singe ; seul l'homme le peut. Mais d'un autre côté, seul l'homme considère cette faculté comme un signe de supériorité. The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.
D'un autre côté, il y avait l'annonce de temps nouveaux. On another plane there was the prediction of a new age.
Le garçon d'à côté est tombé d'un arbre la tête la première. The boy next door fell head first from a tree.
Il s'assit à côté d'elle. He seated himself beside her.
Si tu ne connais pas la signification d'un mot, vérifie dans un dictionnaire. If you don't know the meaning of a word, look it up in a dictionary.
Tom s'est arrêté en urgence sur le côté de la route. Tom made an emergency stop on the road.
Dans ce cours, nous consacrerons du temps à vous aider à vous exprimer en ayant plus l'air d'un locuteur natif. In this course, we'll spend time helping you sound more like a native speaker.
Allez chercher une chaise dans la pièce d'à côté, s'il vous plait. Go and get a chair from the next room, please.
Les étrangers bénéficient d'un traitement particulier dans ce pays. Foreigners get special treatment in that country.
L'herbe paraît toujours plus verte de l'autre côté. The grass always seems greener on the other side.
Je crois qu'il a quelque chose d'un poète. I think he is something of a poet.
Voici les gens qui habitent à côté. These are the people who live next door.
Il est évident qu'il n'est pas habitué à vivre d'un budget serré. It's obvious that he's not used to living on a tight budget.
Elle s'est agenouillée à côté de lui et lui a demandé quel était son nom. She knelt beside him and asked him what his name was.
Le ciel est d'un bleu absolu. The sky is as blue as blue can be.
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