Usage examples of "intellectuel" in French with translation to English

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Porter des lunettes vous fait paraître plus intellectuel. Wearing glasses makes you look more intellectual.
Seul un intellectuel masculin embrumé par le désir sexuel a pu nommer le beau sexe le modèle réduit, aux épaules étroites, aux hanches larges et aux jambes courtes. Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex.
Il y a deux sortes de travail dans le monde : celui de la tête et celui des mains ; intellectuel et manuel. There are two kinds of work in the world--head work and hand work; mental and manual.
Un intellectuel est quelqu'un qui a découvert quelque chose de plus intéressant que le sexe. An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
Un intellectuel est quelqu'un qui dit quelque chose de simple d'une manière compliquée; un artiste est quelqu'un qui dit quelque chose de compliqué d'une manière simple. An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way.
Le débat sur les intellectuels rebondit. The debate about intellectuals bounces back.
Il est important d'avoir de la curiosité intellectuelle. It is important to have intellectual curiosity.
En plus d'être belle, elle est gentille et intellectuelle. Besides being beautiful, she is kind and intellectual.
Comme les visions de génie deviennent vite la pensée en conserve des intellectuels. How quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.
L'exclusion des mathématiques de la sphère de la culture équivaut à une castration intellectuelle. The exclusion of mathematics from the field of culture is like intellectual castration.
Toute production intellectuelle doit être jugée du point de vue de l'époque et du peuple dont elle provient. Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.
Les sages s'entretiennent des idées, les intellectuels des faits, et le commun des mortels, de ce qu'ils mangent. Wise men talk about ideas, intellectuals about facts, and the ordinary man talks about what he eats.
Si l'apprentissage des langues étrangères est poussé à fond de manière à profiter à l'esprit, il demande un temps immense. S'il est superficiel, il n'apporte rien à la culture intellectuelle. If the study of foreign languages is pursued in depth, so as to improve the mind, then it requires an immense amount of time. If it is superficial, it adds nothing to intellectual development.
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