Sentence examples of "childish" in English
When an average person sends a message in a bottle, it's just a childish fantasy. When Christopher Columbus sends a message in a bottle, the fate of an entire country is at stake.
Quand monsieur tout-le-monde envoie un message dans une bouteille, c'est juste un amusement enfantin. Quand Christophe Colomb envoie un message dans une bouteille, c'est le sort d'un pays entier qui est en jeu.
He was so childish that he couldn't resist temptation.
Il était si puéril, qu'il ne pouvait pas résister à la tentation.
Age does not make us childish, as they say. It only finds us true children still.
Le vieil âge ne fait pas de nous des enfants comme on le dit. Il nous trouve simplement toujours de vrais enfants.
Man's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always astounded me. We long for a caring Universe which will save us from our childish mistakes, and in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary we will pin all our hopes on the slimmest of doubts. God has not been proven not to exist, therefore he must exist.
La capacité inébranlable de l'homme à croire ce qu'il préfère plutôt qu'à ce que les preuves démontrent être probable et possible m'a toujours stupéfié. Nous nous languissons d'un univers attentionné qui nous sauvera de nos puériles erreurs, et face à des montagnes de preuves du contraire nous allons accrocher nos espoirs aux doutes les plus minces. On n'a pas prouvé que Dieu n'existait pas, donc il doit exister.
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