Usage examples of "technique de pointe" in French with translation to English

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J'étais pris dans les transports à l'heure de pointe. I was caught in the rush hour.
Ce passage est le plus technique de ce morceau de piano. J'ai mis beaucoup de temps avant de savoir le jouer. This part of the tune needs some real skill. It took me ages to learn how to play it on the piano.
Pendant l'heure de pointe, la circulation à Tokyo est dense. During the rush hours in Tokyo, traffic is heavy.
La mémoire virtuelle est une technique de gestion de la mémoire développée pour les noyaux multi-tâches. Virtual memory is a memory management technique developed for multitasking kernels.
Un embouteillage durant les heures de pointe a retardé mon arrivée de deux heures. A rush-hour traffic jam delayed my arrival by two hours.
Aux heures de pointe, il nous est difficile de trouver un taxi par ici. During the rush hours we find it difficult to get a taxi around here.
Je préférerais partir tôt plutôt que prendre le train aux heures de pointe. I would rather leave early than travel on rush-hour trains.
Il aurait pu être admis facilement à une bonne université s'il avait essayé, mais il est entré dans une école technique. He would have been able to enter a good university easily if he had tried, but he entered a vocational school instead.
La pointe de la lance était trempée dans un poison mortel. The tip of the spear was dipped in a deadly poison.
Pouvez-vous nous parler de votre expérience dans le développement de matériel technique ? Can you tell us about your experience in developing technical materials?
Il y a une pointe de rouge dans le ciel oriental. There is a tinge of red in the eastern sky.
Les méthodes pour surmonter le stress sont différentes suivant le sexe : boire de l'alcool est la technique la plus utilisée chez les hommes, tandis que les femmes préfèrent bavarder. The methods used to overcome stress are different for men and women: drinking is the major method used by men, while women deal with stress by chatting.
Enfant, j'ai passé plusieurs années en Indonésie et entendu l'appel de l'adhan à la pointe de l'aube et à la tombée du crépuscule. As a boy, I spent several years in Indonesia and heard the call of the azaan at the break of dawn and the fall of dusk.
Le programmeur est en train de réparer un problème technique avec le serveur. The programmer is fixing a technical problem with the computer server.
Il tailla le bâton en une pointe acérée, à l'aide de son couteau de chasse. He whittled the stick to a sharp point with his hunting knife.
Un bon diplomate est une personne qui a acquis la technique consistant à laisser à une autre le soin de révéler un secret. A good diplomat is a person who practises the technique of letting someone else let the cat out of the bag.
Il utilise un crayon avec une pointe fine. He uses a pencil with a fine point.
Il maîtrise la nouvelle technique. He's got the new technique down pat.
La pointe du crayon s'est émoussée. The point of the pencil has become dull.
L'omission est l'exemple parfait d'une expression technique ; elle est utilisée dans de nombreuses grammaires. Omission is a perfectly good example of an expression technique, and is brought up in many grammar books.
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