Usage examples of "eux-mêmes" in French with translation to English

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Ils s'admiraient eux-mêmes. They were admiring themselves.
Les enfants furent laissés à eux-mêmes. The children were left to fend for themselves.
Les étudiants effectuèrent le travail par eux-mêmes. The students did the work themselves.
Ils ont été laissés livrés à eux-mêmes. They were left to fend for themselves.
Ils devraient avoir le droit de décider par eux-mêmes. They should have the right to decide for themselves.
Le problème, c'est qu'ils ne pensent qu'à eux-mêmes. The trouble is that they only think of themselves.
Les gens sont trop flemmards pour chercher par eux-mêmes dans un dictionnaire. People are too lazy to look it up themselves in a dictionary.
Il y a ceux qui, dans une situation désespérée, cherchent assistance dans les prières des autres, mais ne pensent pas à prier pour eux-mêmes. There are those, who, in distress, seek the help of other people's prayers, but have no mind to pray for themselves.
Les gens sont les plus en colère lorsqu'ils se sentent moqués. C'est pourquoi ceux qui ont confiance en eux-mêmes se fâchent rarement. People are most angry when they feel they are being mocked. That's why those who are confident in themselves seldom become angry.
Quelques vieillards, en se vantant continuellement de leur jeunesse, nous persuaderaient presque qu'ils n'étaient pas des idiots à cette époque ; mais malheureusement ils se sont laissés eux-mêmes comme preuves. Some old men, by continually praising the time of their youth, would almost persuade us that there were no fools in those days; but unluckily they are left themselves for examples.
Chokichi sentait vivement que les gens, à mesure qu'ils vieillissent, oublient entièrement les soucis que seuls les jeunes peuvent connaître et dont ils ont eux-mêmes fait l'expérience dans leur jeunesse ; et qu'ils prennent nonchalamment cette attitude facile où ils jugent durement les circonstances des jeunes de la nouvelle génération. Il sentait qu'il y avait réellement une distance irréconciliable entre les vieux et les jeunes. Chokichi keenly felt that people, as they get older, forget entirely about the worries that only young people know about and that they themselves experienced in their youth; and that they nonchalantly take this convenient disposition where they judge harshly the circumstances of the young persons born of the next generation. He felt that there was truly an irreconcilable gap between the old and the young.
En se domestiquant eux-mêmes comme du bétail, les êtres humains donnèrent naissance à la civilisation. Through domesticating ourselves like cattle, people began civilization.
La justice, c'est de juger les hommes sur eux-mêmes et non sur leur nom ou leurs idées. Justice is to judge men on their own merits, not according to their names or their ideas.
Étant donné que la plupart des locuteurs de l'espéranto ont appris la langue par eux-mêmes, l'Internet en général et des sites web tels que www.lernu.net en particulier, ont été une bénédiction pour la langue. Since most speakers of Esperanto have learned the language through self study, the Internet in general, and websites such as www.lernu.net in particular, have been a great boon to the language.
En signant le traité de Tripoli en 1796, notre second Président John Adams écrivit : "Les États-Unis n'ont en eux-mêmes aucun caractère d'inimitié à l'encontre des lois, de la religion ou de la tranquillité des Musulmans. In signing the Treaty of Tripoli in 1796, our second President John Adams wrote, "The United States has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims."
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