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

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Un gratte-ciel est-il un objet de grande taille lointain ou un objet de petite taille vu de près ? Is a skyscraper a big thing far away or a small thing close up?
Les activistes ont été aperçu dans un coin lointain de la jungle brésilienne. The activists were last seen in a remote, forested corner of Brazil.
Elle lui est apparentée de manière lointaine. She is distantly related to him.
J'ai vu une lumière lointaine. I saw a light far away.
L'équipage de Christophe Colomb s'est souvent plaint qu'il saturait la connexion wifi du navire pour s'adonner à des jeux en ligne, mais il réfuta ces accusations avec indignation, en faisant valoir qu'il recherchait des îles lointaines qu'ils devaient encore découvrir à l'époque. His crew members often complained of Christopher Columbus's hogging of their vessel's Wifi connection to play online games, but he denied these accusations with indignation, claiming that he was researching faraway lands that they had yet to discover.
Nous avons vu luire la lueur lointaine d'un phare. We saw the gleam of a distant lighthouse.
Aujourd'hui, nous pouvons facilement aller dans des pays lointains par avion. Today we can go to distant countries easily by plane.
La voie lactée est une vaste ceinture d'étoiles lointaines, chacune semblable à notre soleil. The Milky Way is a vast belt of distant stars, each star a sun like our one.
De petites lumières clignotaient dans le lointain. Little lights were blinking on and off in the distance.
Nous pouvons voir l'île dans le lointain. We can see the island in the distance.
Lorsque nous avons vu de la lumière au lointain, nous nous sommes sentis soulagés. We felt relieved when we saw a light in the distance.
Dans un univers très très lointain, où chaque vision devient réalité, un nouveau essaya de visualiser un objet en quatre dimensions, pour visualiser en définitive un objet comportant une infinité de dimensions qui plongea soudain notre existence entière dans le chaos, en finissant ainsi avec l'univers tel que nous le connaissons. In a far, far away universe where whatever is visualized becomes real, a noob tried to visualize a four dimensional object only to end up visualizing an object with an infinite number of dimensions that sent our entire existence into disarray thereby ending the universe as we know it.
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