Usage examples of "oeil" in French with translation to English

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Gardez un oeil sur les bagages. Keep an eye on the bags.
Il ne voit pas d'un oeil. He is blind in one eye.
Garde un oeil sur ton sac en marchant. Keep an eye on your bag while walking.
Garde un oeil sur le bébé pour le moment. Keep an eye on the baby for a while.
Je ne vois rien du tout de mon oeil droit. I can't see anything with my right eye.
On se voit d'un autre oeil qu'on ne voit son prochain. We see ourselves with a different eye from the one through which we see our fellows.
Un jour, une sorcière envoya le mauvais oeil à Christophe Colomb... et ne le vit jamais revenir. A witch once gave Christopher Columbus an evil eye... and never got it back.
En fait, un demi-oeil est très utile, parce qu'avec un demi-oeil, un animal peut voir la moitié d'un autre animal qui veut le dévorer et s'écarter de son chemin, et il dévorera lui-même l'animal qui n'a qu'un demi-oeil ou 49% d'un oeil parce que celui-ci ne se sera pas écarté de son chemin assez vite, et l'animal qui a été dévoré n'aura pas de petits parce qu'il est mort. Half an eye is very useful actually, because an animal can see half of another animal, which wants to eat it, and can get out of the way, and it will eat the animal, which has only one-half eye or only 49% of an eye, because this to it will not be enough, and the animal, which was eaten up, will have no children, because it is dead.
Crois-tu au mauvais œil ? Do you believe in the Evil Eye?
Trop de lumière blesse les yeux. Too much light hurts the eye.
Il me regarda dans les yeux. He looked me in the eye.
J'ai un œil de verre. I have a glass eye.
Tom est aveugle d'un œil. Tom is blind in one eye.
Garde un œil sur cette mallette. Keep an eye on this suitcase.
Garde un œil sur les filles. Keep an eye on the girls.
Elle me lança un œil noir. She gave me the fish eye.
Elle le regarda droit dans les yeux. She looked him right in the eye.
Il me regarda droit dans les yeux. He looked me right in the eye.
Gardez un œil sur l'enfant méchant. Keep an eye on the naughty kid.
Elle m'a lancé un œil noir. She gave me the fish eye.
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