Sentence examples of "bête noire" in French
Le train cracha en l'air des nuages de fumée noire tandis qu'il haletait en s'éloignant.
The train belched clouds of black smoke into the air as it chugged away.
J'aimerais en savoir plus sur la magie noire. Je n'en ai eu qu'un aperçu au collège, et ça m'intéresse vraiment.
I'd like to hear about black magic. I was only told the highlights in the academy, and it interests me.
Tu es une bête ! Tu ne t'es pas trompé sur la moindre question !
You're a beast! You haven't even missed one question!
Il n'y a point de bête au monde tant à craindre à l'homme que l'homme.
For man, there is no beast more scary than man.
En 1493, le Vatican a offert l'Amérique à l'Espagne et l'Afrique noire au Portugal "pour que les nations barbares soient réduites à la foi catholique".
In 1493, the Vatican gave America to Spain and granted Africa to Portugal, "so that barbarous nations be reduced to the Catholic faith".
Elle n'était pas bête au point de lui raconter une telle histoire.
She knew better than to tell him such a story.
Moins le blanc est intelligent, plus le noir lui paraît bête.
The dumber the white man is, the more the black man looks dumb to him.
Assise dans son fauteuil en peau de panthère, la jeune femme en lingerie rouge lisait à haute voix un livre intitulé « La princesse noire ».
Sitting in her panther hide chair, the young woman, clad in red lingerie, was reading aloud a book titled "The Black Princess".
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