Usage examples of "être au point mort" in French with translation to English

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Nous devons être au travail pour neuf heures. We have to be at work by nine.
Ce travail est simple au point que même une enfant peut l'accomplir. This work is simple enough that even a child can do it.
S'il n'y a plus la voiture, il ne peut pas être au bureau. If the car is gone, he can't be at the office.
Le sifflet du train à vapeur nous réveilla au point du jour. The whistle of the steam train woke us at daybreak.
Il est déjà onze heures. Tu devrais déjà être au lit. It's already eleven. It's high time you were in bed.
Un bon livre peut totalement absorber votre attention, au point d'oublier votre environnement et même votre existence. A good book can completely absorb your attention, to the extent that you forget your surroundings and even your existence.
Il ne semble pas être au courant du conflit entre mon père et moi. He seems not to be aware of the conflict between my father and me.
Les choses en sont venues au point que je dus me cacher du propriétaire. It became so that I had to hide from the landlord.
Les médecins doivent être au fait des derniers progrès de la médecine. Doctors should keep abreast with all the latest developments in medicine.
Les technologies de chiffrement ont avancé au point d'être plutôt fiables. Encryption technology has advanced to the point where it's pretty reliable.
Les athlètes se sont entrainés dur, tous les jours, pour être au mieux de leur forme pour les jeux olympiques d'été. The athletes trained hard every day to be at their best for the summer Olympic.
Ce problème n'est pas si difficile au point de ne pas pouvoir le résoudre. This problem is not so difficult that you can't solve it.
On ne peut être au four et au moulin You can't be in two places at once
Nous fûmes éveillés, au point du jour, par le sifflement d'un train. We were roused at daybreak by the whistle of a train.
Elle n'est pas bête au point de se disputer avec lui. She knows better than to argue with him.
Il est idiot au point de croire ça ? Is he so foolish as to believe that?
Au point de vue lexical l'espéranto apparaît comme une langue d'origine indo-européenne, mais structurellement elle est une langue isolante pareillement au chinois. From a lexical point of view, Esperanto appears as an Indo-European language, but structurally it is an isolating language, likewise Chinese.
Il est étonnant de constater que les Iraniens, auxquels les Arabes ont imposé l'Islam en les battant militairement, sont devenus ses plus zélés adeptes au point d'opprimer ceux du Zoroastrisme, qui est pourtant la religion de leurs propres pères. Une sorte de syndrome de Stockholm à l'échelle nationale. It is astonishing to witness that the Iranians, onto whom the Arabs imposed Islam through military defeat, have become its most zealous followers to the point of oppressing those of Zoroastrianism, though it is the religion of their own fathers. A kind of Stockholm syndrome on the national scale.
Thomas a retenu beaucoup de kanji au point d'être capable de lire les livres destinés aux écoliers. Tom has memorised so many kanji that he can read books for primary school children.
Il n'est pas stupide au point de croire à cette histoire. He is not such a fool as to believe that story.
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