Sentence examples of "à courte distance" in French
Ils dansent en cercle pour indiquer une courte distance, et ils agitent leurs corps et sautillent vers l'avant puis vers l'arrière pour indiquer une plus grande distance.
They dance in circles to communicate a short distance, and shake their bodies and dart back and forth to indicate a longer distance.
Il tenait les envahisseurs à distance à la mitrailleuse.
He kept the invaders at bay with a machine gun.
La distance entre les étoiles se mesure en années-lumière.
The distance between stars is measured in light years.
Je ne m'en sorts pas sans ce dico même pour une courte journée.
I cannot do without this dictionary even for a single day.
La lieue a comme origine la distance que peut parcourir un homme ou un cheval en une heure.
The league originally referred to the distance a person or a horse could walk in an hour.
Il doit être un bon marcheur pour avoir couvert une distance aussi longue.
He must be a good walker to walk such a long distance.
Je n'aurais pas trouvé une explication aussi courte.
I would never have found as short an explanation.
Chokichi sentait vivement que les gens, à mesure qu'ils vieillissent, oublient entièrement les soucis que seuls les jeunes peuvent connaître et dont ils ont eux-mêmes fait l'expérience dans leur jeunesse ; et qu'ils prennent nonchalamment cette attitude facile où ils jugent durement les circonstances des jeunes de la nouvelle génération. Il sentait qu'il y avait réellement une distance irréconciliable entre les vieux et les jeunes.
Chokichi keenly felt that people, as they get older, forget entirely about the worries that only young people know about and that they themselves experienced in their youth; and that they nonchalantly take this convenient disposition where they judge harshly the circumstances of the young persons born of the next generation. He felt that there was truly an irreconcilable gap between the old and the young.
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