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

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Les vagues sont hautes aujourd'hui. The waves are high today.

Je raisonne sur des faits et des chiffres, et non pas sur de vagues impressions. I deal in facts and figures, not vague impressions.

Je pouvais voir les vagues ondoyantes à ma droite. I could see the rippling waves on my right.

Les frontières qui divisent la Vie et la Mort sont au mieux vagues et ombragées. Qui dira où l'une commence et où l'autre finit ? The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Son action fait encore des vagues dans la société japonaise. Her action is still making waves in Japanese society.

Bientôt, je ne pus voir que son cou, flotter au-dessus des vagues. Soon, I could only see her neck floating above the waves.

Elle s'assit sur la plage vide, regardant rouler les vagues, l'une après l'autre. She sat on the empty beach watching the waves roll in one after the other.

Il grimaça, comme si les souvenirs de son amer passé déferlaient tels des vagues à l'intérieur de sa tête. He grimaced as if memories of his bitter past were crashing like waves inside his head.

Pendant le tremblement de terre de 2011 du Tohoku, les vagues du tsunami ont atteint une hauteur de 37,9 mètres. During the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, the height of the tsunami waves reached up to 37.9 meters.

C'est une histoire vague. It's a vague story.

Une bonne méthode joue un rôle beaucoup plus important dans l'apprentissage des langues qu'un vague concept d'aptitude innée. A good method plays a much more important role in language learning than the vague concept of innate ability.

L'amitié est en elle-même quelque chose de très vague et, même dans les cas d'amitiés entre mêmes sexes, elle prend de nombreuses formes et est inspirée par de nombreux mobiles différents. Friendship in itself is something very vague and even in cases of same-sex friendships, it takes many shapes and is brought on by many different motives.

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