Sentence examples of "brûler la cervelle" in French
Au moment où il ouvrait la porte, il sentit quelque chose brûler.
The instant he opened the door, he smelt something burning.
Il n'a pas assez de cervelle pour faire des additions de tête.
He doesn't have enough brains to do sums in his head.
Il est impossible de brûler une copie de l'Enfer de Dante, car la glace du neuvième cercle de l'enfer éteindra toutes les flammes attisées par les pages antérieures.
It is impossible to burn a copy of Dante's Inferno because the ice of the ninth layer of hell will put out any fires kindled with earlier pages.
J'espère que vous avez assez de cervelle pour voir la différence.
I hope you have brains enough to see the difference.
Là où l'on brûle les livres, on finit aussi par brûler des hommes.
Where they burn books, they will eventually burn people.
Je suis l'esprit de ton père, condamné, pour un certain temps, à marcher la nuit, et, durant le jour, confiné à brûler dans les feux, jusqu'à ce que les méchants crimes que j'ai commis au cours de ma vie soient brûlés et épurés.
I am your father's spirit, doomed for a certain time to walk the night, and during the day I am confined to burn in fires, until the evil crimes I had done in my life are burnt and purged away.
Les hommes de génie sont des météores destinés à brûler pour éclairer leur siècle.
Men of genius are meteors destined to burn in order to illuminate their century.
Le café était tellement enfumé que les yeux commençaient à me brûler.
The bar was so smoky that my eyes started to sting.
Certains hommes veulent simplement regarder le monde brûler.
Some men just want to watch the world burn.
La chose la plus difficile dans la vie est de savoir quels ponts traverser et lesquels brûler.
The hardest thing in life is knowing which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn.
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