Sentence examples of "savants" in French

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C'est une de ces opinions si absurdes que seuls des hommes très savants pourraient l'adopter. This is one of those views which are so absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.
D'après certains savants, un séisme majeur pourrait maintenant survenir à tout moment. According to some scholars, a major earthquake could occur at any moment now.
Le savant sait qu'il ignore. The learned man knows that there are things which he doesn't know.
M. Jones a été considéré comme un grand savant. Mr Jones was looked upon as a great scholar.
Il passe pour un savant dans notre communauté. He passes for a learned man in our community.
Un grand savant n'est pas forcément un grand enseignant. A great scholar is not necessarily a good teacher.
Il passait pour un savant dans notre communauté. He passed for a learned man in our community.
Mon père est, pour ainsi dire, un idiot savant. My father is, so to speak, a learned fool.
Les savants commencèrent à trouver les réponses à ces questions. Scientists began to find answers to these questions.
Qu’en dis-tu, Mary, toi qui es une fille réfléchie, qui lis des livres savants et fais des extraits ? What say you, Mary? For you are a young lady of deep reflection, I know, and read great books and make extracts.
"Les policiers parisiens, dit-il, sont extrêmement habiles à leur façon. Ils sont persévérants, ingénieux, rusés et très savants du type de connaissance que semble principalement requérir leurs fonctions." "The Parisian police," he said, "are exceedingly able in their way. They are persevering, ingenious, cunning, and thoroughly versed in the knowledge which their duties seem chiefly to demand."
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