Usage examples of "don de charité" in French with translation to English

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On m'a demandé de jouer de ma clarinette à une fête de charité. I've been asked to play my clarinet at a charity event.
Il méprise le cadeau le plus raffiné que Dieu a fait à l'homme : le don de la raison. He despises the choicest gift of God to man, the gift of reason.
Il regimba à la suggestion qu'il donne dix pour-cent de son revenu aux œuvres de charité. He balked at the suggestion that he give ten percent of his income to charity.
La musique est un don de Dieu. Music is a God given gift.
Elle gère une œuvre de charité. She runs a charity.
Comme c'est le caractère des grands esprits de faire entendre en peu de paroles beaucoup de choses, les petits esprits au contraire ont le don de beaucoup parler, et de ne rien dire. Just as it is the tendency of great minds to make one hear much with few words, small minds have a talent for talking a lot, and saying nothing.
Il donna tout son argent aux œuvres de charité. He gave away all his money to charity.
Il avait le don de prophétie. He had the gift of prophecy.
La théorie des jeux montre que ce que nous nommons «principes moraux» ne sont jamais que les éléments de la stratégie permettant au groupe d'optimiser sa survie. Les hommes aiment à travestir leur âpreté sous des oripeaux de charité. The theory of games shows that what we name "moral principles" are no other than the strategy elements enabling the group to optimise its survival. Men like to dress their eagerness under the guise of charity.
L'homme a le don de la parole. Man has the gift of speech.
Elle a un don de prophétie. She has a gift for prophecy.
Ô chaleur, dessèche mon cerveau! ô larmes sept fois salées, consumez en mes yeux tout don de sentir et d'agir! O heat, dry up my brains! Tears seven times salt, burn out the sense and virtue of mine eye!
Elle a le don de pouvoir faire deux choses à la fois. She has a faculty for doing two things at once.
L'homme a le don de parole qu'aucun animal n'a. Man has the gift of speech which no animal has.
Nous avons fait un don de sang pour aider l'enfant. We gave blood to help the child.
Ce type est un Don Juan donc tu devrais faire attention. This guy is quick in seducing women so you better beware.
C'est la justice et non la charité, dont a besoin le monde. It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
J'ai trahi la foi conjugale, que j'avais jurée à don José, mon mari. I broke the marriage vows that I had sworn to Don Jose, my husband.
La charité commence par sa propre maison. Charity begins at home.
Il apprend le chinois tellement vite que tout le monde dit qu'il est très intelligent, voire qu'il a un don inné pour les langues. He learned Chinese so fast, everyone says he's very smart, that he really has a gift with languages.
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