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

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.

About 50 percent of the firms in Japan have acknowledged the necessity of giving their workers longer holidays, and think summer holidays are needed to give their workers both mental and physical refreshment. Environ 50% des entreprises japonaises ont admis la nécessité de donner de plus longues vacances à leurs employés et pensent que les travailleurs ont besoin des vacances d'été pour un repos à la fois physique et mental.

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.

The main point of Dennett's book, in short, is to deny the existence of inner mental states. L'argument principal du livre de Dennett est, en résumé, de nier l'existence des états mentaux internes.

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

Mental exercise is particularly important for young children. L'exercice mental est particulièrement important pour les jeunes enfants.

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.

Through the internet, we are now able to acquaint ourselves, deeply and in detail, with the mental activities of even the furthest people on the planet. Au moyen d'Internet, nous pouvons désormais nous familiariser de manière approfondie et détaillée avec les occupations mentales des hommes, même les plus éloignés de la planète.

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

The emigrants have endured physical and mental pain. Les émigrants ont subi des souffrances physiques et psychiques.

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.

You should take account of his mental condition. Vous devriez prendre son état mental en compte.

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 need some mental stimulation. J'ai besoin de stimulation mentale.

There are two kinds of work in the world--head work and hand work; mental and manual. Il y a deux sortes de travail dans le monde : celui de la tête et celui des mains ; intellectuel et manuel.

Air traffic controllers are under severe mental strain. Les contrôleurs du trafic aérien sont soumis à une forte pression psychologique.

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