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

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Il a sauvé un marin. He saved a sailor.
Marie est un animal marin. Mary is a sea urchin.
Tom jouait le rôle d'un marin. Tom acted the part of a sailor.
Il pense à devenir marin. He is thinking of going to sea.
Une mer calme n'a jamais fait de marin chevronné. A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor.
Un marin est la plupart du temps à la mer. A sailor is at sea much of the time.
Un marin a vu son camarade se noyer d'épuisement. A sailor saw his fellow sailor sink from exhaustion.
En Allemagne, il y a une superstition comme quoi si on allume une cigarette à l'aide d'une chandelle, un marin mourra en mer. In Germany, there's a superstition that if you light a cigarette off a candle, a sailor will die at sea.
Les marins ont péri en mer. The sailors perished in the sea.
Les tortues marines ont une haute espérance de vie. Sea turtles have a long lifespan.
Une étrange créature marine vient d'être découverte. A strange marine creature was found recently.
De nombreux marins ne savent pas nager. Many sailors can't swim.
La plupart des créatures marines sont affectées par la pollution. Most creatures in the sea are affected by pollution.
Les plantes marines poussent sur le sol océanique. Marine plants grow on the sea bed.
Les marins abandonnèrent le navire en flammes. The sailors abandoned the burning ship.
Les homards appartiennent à une catégorie d'animaux marins. Lobsters belong to a class of marine animals.
C'était un navire avec un équipage de 25 marins. It was a ship with a crew of 25 sailors.
Toute la compétence des marins céda sous la violence de la tempête. All the skill of the sailors gave way to the violence of the storm.
Un jour, Christophe Colomb découvrit un vaisseau rempli de marins morts, et l'a poliment ignoré. Christopher Columbus once discovered an entire ship of deceased sailors... and politely ignored it.
Même à la fin du dix-neuvième siècle, les marins de la marine britannique n'étaient pas autorisés à utiliser des couteaux et des fourchettes parce que c'était considéré comme un signe de faiblesse. Even at the end of the nineteenth century, sailors in the British Navy were not permitted to use knives and forks because using them was considered a sign of weakness.
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