Sentence examples of "currents" in English

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Avoid opening the window; I have no great desire to feel air currents on my back. Évite d’ouvrir la fenêtre, je n'ai pas trop envie de sentir de courants d’air dans mon dos.

An electric current can generate magnetism. Un courant électrique peut générer du magnétisme.

We were rowing against the current. Nous ramions à contre-courant.

The current is rapid around here. Le courant est rapide par ici.

The current of this river is rapid. Le courant de cette rivière est rapide.

We rowed up the river against the current. Nous avons remonté la rivière, à contre-courant.

Let us try to swim against the current. Essayons de nager contre le courant.

A warm current runs off the coast of Shikoku. Un courant chaud circule au large de Shikoku.

The French language, by the way, is a clear stream that affected writers have never been, and will never be able to ripple. Each century has thrown in this limpid current its fashions, its pretentious archaisms and its preciousness, without anything surfacing from those useless attempts, those powerless efforts. The nature of this language is to be clear, logical and nervous. It won't let itself be weakened, obscured or corrupted. La langue française, d’ailleurs, est une eau pure que les écrivains maniérés n’ont jamais pu et ne pourront jamais troubler. Chaque siècle a jeté dans ce courant limpide ses modes, ses archaïsmes prétentieux et ses préciosités, sans que rien surnage de ces tentatives inutiles, de ces efforts impuissants. La nature de cette langue est d’être claire, logique et nerveuse. Elle ne se laisse pas affaiblir, obscurcir ou corrompre.

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