Sentence examples of "stream bed" in English
Love is like some fresh spring, that leaves its cresses, its gravel bed and flowers to become first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.
L'amour est une source naïve, partie de son lit de cresson, de fleurs, de gravier, qui rivière, qui fleuve, change de nature et d'aspect à chaque flot, et se jette dans un incommensurable océan où les esprits incomplets voient la monotonie, où les grandes âmes s'abîment en de perpétuelles contemplations.
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.
Upon getting home, I went straight to bed.
Après être rentré à la maison je me rendis directement au lit.
The man is sitting on on the other side of the stream.
L'homme est assis de l'autre côté du ruisseau.
He stayed in bed because he wasn't feeling well.
Il resta au lit parce qu'il ne se sentait pas bien.
There's been a constant stream of complaint calls since last week.
Il y a eu un flot ininterrompu d'appels de réclamations depuis la semaine dernière.
The blood stream is usually constant and continuous.
Le flux de sang est normalement constant et continu.
As soon as he went to bed, he fell fast asleep, for he was very tired.
Aussitôt qu'il fut au lit il s'endormit rapidement, car il était très fatigué.
All day long there was a steady stream of people going in and out of the bank.
Toute la journée, il y avait un flot continu de gens qui entraient et sortaient de la banque.
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