Usage examples of "block off" in English with translation to French

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That kid's a chip off the old block. Ce gosse est le portrait craché de son père.
I put my fingers in my ears to block out the terrible sounds. Je mis mes doigts dans mes oreilles pour éviter ces bruits terribles.
Brush off the dust from your shoes. Enlève la poussière de tes chaussures.
A warehouse full of illegal fireworks blew up and destroyed a whole city block. Un entrepôt plein de feux d'artifice a explosé et a détruit un pâté de maison entier.
Get off at the next stop and take a bus headed to the airport. Descends au prochain arrêt et prends un bus à destination de l'aéroport.
Every author suffers from writer's block from time to time. Chaque auteur souffre du syndrome de la page blanche de temps en temps.
He can't take his eyes off her. Il ne peut pas la quitter des yeux.
The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic. Le monde moderne est une foule de voitures de course très rapides toutes arrêtées et prises dans un embouteillage.
They heard a gun go off in the distance. Ils entendirent un coup de feu partir au loin.
Almost all implementations of virtual memory divide the virtual address space of an application program into pages; a page is a block of contiguous virtual memory addresses. Quasiment toutes les implémentations de la mémoire virtuelle divisent l'espace d'adressage virtuel d'une application en pages; une page est un bloc d'adresses mémoires virtuelles contiguës.
The plane took off just now. L'avion vient juste de décoller.
Such a person will often go a block out of his way to avoid meeting a person of the opposite sex. Une telle personne fera souvent un effort particulier pour éviter de rencontrer une personne du sexe opposé.
Police cordoned off the crime scene. La police délimita la scène de crime.
Make sure that the lights are turned off before you leave. Assurez-vous que les lumières sont éteintes avant de partir.
She stormed off in a huff. Elle prit la mouche.
Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off. Nombreux sont ceux qui baisent la main qu'ils souhaitent trancher.
It has been raining on and off since the day before yesterday. Il a plu par intermittences depuis avant-hier.
I have been to the station to see him off. Je suis allé le raccompagner à la gare.
Starting off, first on the agenda is about this morning's two-in-a-bed ruckus. Pour commencer, le premier point à l'ordre du jour est ce remue-ménage au sujet des lits partagés de ce matin.
Tom is taking a few days off. Tom prend quelques jours de congé.
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