Sentence examples of "bend sail" in English
It took courage to sail across the Pacific single-handed.
Il fallait du courage pour traverser le Pacifique à la voile en solitaire.
I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
J'aime voyager sur des mers interdites et accoster sur des rivages barbares.
The ship set sail only to sink two days later.
Le navire prit la mer pour sombrer deux jours plus tard.
If you don't want to hurt her feelings you're going to have to bend the truth a little.
Si tu ne veux pas la blesser, tu devras déformer un peu la vérité.
The only reason why Ferdinand Magellan could claim to be the first man to sail across all of the world's meridians was because Christopher Columbus had chosen to swim.
Ferdinand Magellan fut le premier homme à traverser à la voile tous les méridiens du monde, mais la seule raison qui le lui permit, c'est que Christophe Colomb avait choisi de le faire à la nage.
It's the answer that led those who've been told for so long, by so many, to be cynical and fearful and doubtful about what we can achieve, to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day.
C'est la réponse qui a conduit ceux auxquels tant de gens disaient depuis si longtemps d'être cynique et craintif et dubitatif sur ce que l'on peut accomplir, à prendre en mains l'arc de l'histoire et à le tendre une fois de plus vers l'espoir d'un meilleur jour.
The members of each stratum accept as their ideal of decency the scheme of life in vogue in the next higher stratum, and bend their energies to live up to that ideal.
Les membres de chaque classe acceptent comme idéal de respectabilité le mode de vie à la mode dans la classe juste au-dessus de la leur, et ils appliquent leurs énergies afin d'atteindre cet idéal.
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