Sentence examples of "une sorte de" in French
Ce liquide transparent contient une sorte de poison.
This transparent liquid contains a sort of poison.
À la manière des fats, il larde ses phrases de mots anglais mal digérés. Une sorte de dandy raté, auquel il manquerait la classe.
In the style of conceited people, he lards his sentences with ill-digested English words. A kind of failed dandy, deprived of class.
Le shanghaïen est en fait une sorte de pidgin, fondé sur les dialectes wu, le mandarin du bas-Yangtse, et des mots empruntés à l'anglais.
Shanghainese is actually a kind of pidgin, based on Wu dialects, Lower Yangtze Mandarin, and English loanwords.
Il est étonnant de constater que les Iraniens, auxquels les Arabes ont imposé l'Islam en les battant militairement, sont devenus ses plus zélés adeptes au point d'opprimer ceux du Zoroastrisme, qui est pourtant la religion de leurs propres pères. Une sorte de syndrome de Stockholm à l'échelle nationale.
It is astonishing to witness that the Iranians, onto whom the Arabs imposed Islam through military defeat, have become its most zealous followers to the point of oppressing those of Zoroastrianism, though it is the religion of their own fathers. A kind of Stockholm syndrome on the national scale.
Le nouveau président élu est une sorte de poète.
The newly elected president is something of a poet.
Il sait parler une sorte de chinois, mais il ne sait pas parler mandarin.
She can speak a type of Chinese, but she can't speak Mandarin.
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