Usage examples of "sans parler des" in French with translation to English

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Ma mère craignait les chenilles, sans parler des serpents. My mother disliked caterpillars, not to mention snakes.
Les centrales nucléaires sont dangereuses, sans parler des armes nucléaires. Nuclear power plants are dangerous, not to mention nuclear weapons.
Il lit le français et l'allemand, sans parler de l'anglais. He reads French and German, not to speak of English.
Parler la même langue entre plusieurs cultures est parfois source d'une plus grande confusion que de parler des langues différentes, car alors on est moins vigilant sur les sens différents que peuvent prendre les mêmes mots. Speaking the same language in between several cultures sometimes is a source of more confusion than to speak different languages, since we are less aware of the different meanings that the same words can entail.
Il tient pour principe de ne jamais parler des autres en mal. He makes it a rule never to speak ill of others.
Je peux lui parler des heures durant. I can talk to him for hours.
La grande majorité des élèves lycéens que je connais ne savent pas lire un mot qu'ils ignorent ni agencer les lettres dans le bon ordre, sans parler de prononcer le mot de façon correcte ou naturelle. The vast majority of high school students I know can't read an unknown word and pronounce the letters in the right order, let alone pronounce it correctly or naturally.
Il a l'habitude de parler à des étrangers. He is used to talking to foreigners.
Je peux lui parler durant des heures. I can talk to him for hours.
Je ne l'ai jamais entendu parler en mal des autres. I've never heard him speak ill of others.
Ils continuèrent à parler pendant des heures. They went on talking for hours.
Le premier que je prends en train de jouer à un jeu vidéo, de parler sur QQ, de lire des articles sur Kaixin, il prend la porte. C'est une salle de classe, pas un cyber-café. The first person that I see playing a video game, chatting on QQ, or reading articles on Kaixin is shown the door. This is a classroom, not a cybercafé.
On ne fait pas d'omelettes sans casser des oeufs. You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
On ne fait pas d'omelette sans casser des œufs. You have to break an egg to make an omelette.
Pas un jour ne passe sans qu'il y ait des accidents de la route. Not a day passes without traffic accidents.
Tu es sans conteste le pire des idiots que j'ai jamais rencontrés. You are, hands down, the biggest idiot I've ever met.
Si nous laissions nos émotions éclipser notre capacité à raisonner, nous nous retrouverions sans cesse à chercher des solutions aux mauvais problèmes. If we let our reasoning power be overshadowed by our emotions, we would be barking up the wrong tree all the time.
La vérité est belle, sans doute; mais de même des mensonges. Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
La dotation de l'université s'est réduite sans discontinuer au cours des dix dernières années. The university's endowment has decreased steadily over the last ten years.
Sans la mutation aléatoire des gènes, il n'y aurait pas d'évolution. Without the random mutation of genes there would be no evolution.
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