Sentence examples of "in one fell swoop" in English
This is a golden opportunity we'd be stupid to pass up. Let's get to work and finish it all in one fell swoop.
Voici une occasion en or que nous serions stupides de ne pas saisir. Mettons-nous au travail pour tout finir d'un seul coup.
A lightyear is the distance that light travels in one year.
Une année-lumière est la distance que parcourt la lumière en une année.
Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood.
Il va de soi que les gens ne veulent pas de la guerre. Pourquoi un pauvre bon à rien dans une ferme voudrait risquer sa vie dans une guerre lorsque le mieux qu'il peut en retirer est de revenir dans sa ferme en un seul morceau ? Naturellement, les gens du commun ne veulent pas de la guerre ; ni en Russie, ni en Angleterre, ni en Amérique, pas non plus en Allemagne, en l'occurrence, ça va de soi.
I tried explaining the algebra homework to him but it just went in one ear and out the other.
Je tentai de lui expliquer le devoir d'algèbre, mais ça rentra juste par une oreille et ça ressortit pas l'autre.
When violent extremists operate in one stretch of mountains, people are endangered across an ocean.
Quand de violents extrémistes opèrent dans un coin de montagne, des gens sont mis en danger de l'autre coté de l'océan.
She sat on the empty beach watching the waves roll in one after the other.
Elle s'assit sur la plage vide, regardant rouler les vagues, l'une après l'autre.
I spend as much time working in the garden in one day as my brother does in a week.
Je passe autant de temps à travailler au jardin en un jour que ce que mon frère passe en une semaine.
One sentence may have multiple meanings in one language.
Une phrase peut avoir plusieurs significations dans une langue.
He spends in one day the money he has been saving for ten years.
Il dépense en un jour les économies qu'il fait en dix ans.
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