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

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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.

You're starting to warm up now. Tu commences à t'échauffer maintenant.

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.

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.

Every author suffers from writer's block from time to time. Chaque auteur souffre du syndrome de la page blanche de temps en temps.

The drivers are at the starting line and raring to go! Les pilotes sont sur la ligne de départ et trépignent d'impatience !

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.

Besides, it's starting to rain. À part cela, il commence à pleuvoir.

That kid's a chip off the old block. Ce gosse est le portrait craché de son père.

Sarah's young friends were starting to be scared. Only she kept her cool and reassured her friends. Les jeunes compagnes de Sarah commençaient à s'apeurer. Elle seule conservait son sang-froid et rassurait ses amies.

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.

Your drinking is starting to affect the performance of your duties. Votre consommation d'alcool commence à affecter la performance de vos services.

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.

I am starting this evening. Je commence dès ce soir.

I must admit that, despite loving our friendship, I think I'm also starting to love you. Je dois admettre que bien que j'adore notre amitié, je pense que je commence aussi à vous aimer.

We played. We lost. How about starting it over? On a joué. On a perdu. On recommence ?

I'm starting to enjoy it. Je commence à trouver cela plaisant.

I'm starting to feel desperate. Je commence à me sentir désespéré.

It's starting now. Ça commence.

You're starting to get on my tits. Tu commences à me courir sur le haricot.

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