Sentence examples of "au point de" in French

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Il est idiot au point de croire ça ? Is he so foolish as to believe that?
Elle n'est pas stupide au point de se disputer avec lui. She knew better than to argue with him.
Il n'est pas stupide au point de croire à cette histoire. He is not such a fool as to believe that story.
Elle n'est pas bête au point de se disputer avec lui. She knows better than to argue with him.
Elle n'était pas bête au point de lui raconter une telle histoire. She knew better than to tell him such a story.
Ce problème n'est pas si difficile au point de ne pas pouvoir le résoudre. This problem is not so difficult that you can't solve it.
Son visage après le bain, avec une légère teinte rouge, était beau au point de la confondre avec quelqu'un d'autre. Her face after the bath, with a slight tinge of red, was beautiful as to mistake her for someone else.
Au point de vue lexical l'espéranto apparaît comme une langue d'origine indo-européenne, mais structurellement elle est une langue isolante pareillement au chinois. From a lexical point of view, Esperanto appears as an Indo-European language, but structurally it is an isolating language, likewise Chinese.
Nous fûmes réveillés, au point du jour, par le sifflement d'un train. We were roused at daybreak by the whistle of a train.
La maison était sur le point de s'effondrer. The house was on the verge of collapse.
Les technologies de chiffrement ont avancé au point d'être plutôt fiables. Encryption technology has advanced to the point where it's pretty reliable.
Alors qu'il était sur le point de tomber dans la rivière, il s'agrippa à l'arbre. As he was about to fall into the river, he took hold of the tree.
Les choses en sont venues au point que je dus me cacher du propriétaire. It became so that I had to hide from the landlord.
Il est sur le point de terminer la lecture de l'ouvrage. He's about to finish reading the book.
Votre réponse est au point. Your answer is to the point.
Ils seront attaqués s'ils expriment un point de vue original, donc ils ne prennent aucun risque. They'll be attacked if they carelessly express an original viewpoint, so they only report on the safe options.
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.
Il semble impossible de distinguer une névrose obsessionnelle d'un amour intense, d'un point de vue biochimique. It seems that it's impossible to distinguish an obsessional neurosis from an intense love from a biochemical perspective.
Thomas a retenu beaucoup de kanji au point d'être capable de lire les livres destinés aux écoliers. Tom has memorised so many kanji that he can read books for primary school children.
Son point de vue est assez logique. His view is quite logical.
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