Sentence examples of "au sens propre" in French

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C'est soit trop banal pour mériter ce niveau d'innovation, soit bizarre parce que la terminologie singulière ne véhicule pas le sens. It's either too trite to merit that level of innovation or awkward because the non-standard terminology gets in the way of the meaning.
La Suède a son propre langage. Sweden has its own language.
Elle manque de sens commun. She is lacking in common sense.
Il a sauvé le jeune homme de la noyade au péril de sa propre vie. He saved the drowning boy at the risk of his own life.
Quand il y avait du désespoir dans les régions atteintes par la sécheresse et la crise économique à travers le pays, elle a vu une nation qui conquérait la peur elle-même avec un New Deal, de nouveaux emplois et d'un nouveau sens d'un but commun. Oui, nous pouvons. When there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land, she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs, a new sense of common purpose. Yes, we can.
Chacun d'entre nous a son propre passe-temps. Each of us has his own hobby.
Nous ne trouvons guère de gens de bon sens, que ceux qui sont de notre avis. We find little common sense, but in those who share our opinion.
Garde ta chambre aussi propre que tu peux. Keep your room as neat as you can.
Il a un sens de l'humour très développé. He has a great sense of humour.
Sazae oublie toujours son propre numéro de téléphone. Sazae is always forgetting her own phone number.
Son discours n'avait aucun sens pour moi. His speech made no sense to me.
Chacun a son propre caractère. Everyone has a character of his own.
Peux-tu comprendre le sens de ce paragraphe ? Can you understand the meaning of this paragraph?
Il travailla au prix de son propre temps. He worked at the cost of his own time.
Le sens de la vie m'a toujours échappé et je crois qu'il m'échappera toujours. Mais je l'aime quand même. Life's meaning has always eluded me and I guess it always will. But I love it just the same.
Je me suis convaincu que les règles strictes de mes parents étaient pour mon propre bien. I got it through my head that my parent's strict rules were for my own benefit.
Le centre politique a de plus en plus perdu son sens. The political centre has increasingly lost direction.
Je l'ai traitée comme ma propre fille. I treated her as my own daughter.
Nous avons tous de l'intérêt pour l'histoire. Dans un sens, nous sommes tous historiens. All of us have some interest in history. In a sense, we are all historians.
Sa propre survie est plus importante maintenant. His own survival is more important now.
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