Sentence examples of "rest on" in English
The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich.
Le caractère oligarchique du Commonwealth anglais moderne ne repose pas, comme pour plusieurs oligarchies, sur la cruauté des riches envers les pauvres. Il ne repose pas même sur la générosité des riches envers les pauvres. Il repose sur l'éternelle et indéfectible générosité des pauvres envers les riches.
The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich.
Le caractère oligarchique du Commonwealth anglais moderne ne repose pas, comme pour plusieurs oligarchies, sur la cruauté des riches envers les pauvres. Il ne repose pas même sur la générosité des riches envers les pauvres. Il repose sur l'éternelle et indéfectible générosité des pauvres envers les riches.
Disillusion can become itself an illusion if we rest in it.
La désillusion peut elle-même devenir illusion si nous nous y reposons.
Some eggs weren't rotten, but the rest of them were.
Quelques œufs étaient bons, mais les autres étaient pourris.
I don't want to spend the rest of my life regretting it.
Je ne veux pas passer le reste de ma vie à le regretter.
He made a motion that we stop and rest awhile.
Il nous fit signe de nous arrêter et de prendre un moment de repos.
All of us try to be what none of us couldn't be except when some of us were what the rest of us desired.
Nous essayons tous d'être ce qu'aucun d'entre nous ne pourrait être, sauf quand certains d'entre nous seraient ce que le reste désirait.
Since you look tired, you had better take a rest.
Puisque tu as l'air fatigué, tu ferais mieux de prendre du repos.
If I were you, I would go home and take a good rest.
Si j'étais toi, je retournerais à la maison et je prendrais une bonne sieste.
Tom, who had been working all day, wanted to have a rest.
Tom, qui avait travaillé toute la journée, voulait se reposer.
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