Sentence examples of "concours de circonstances" in French
En raison de circonstances imprévues, la réunion de ce soir a été annulée jusqu'à nouvel ordre.
Due to unforeseen circumstances, tonight's meeting has been cancelled until further notice.
L'élection présidentielle, ça n'est pas un concours de beauté.
The presidential election is not a beauty contest.
Elle a l'intention de prendre part à un concours de beauté.
She intends to participate in a beauty contest.
Mon père a participé au concours de cuisine et a gagné le premier prix.
My father ran in the cooking contest and won the first prize.
Avec la bonne fortune et son propre effort, il remporta le premier prix du concours.
What with good fortune, and his own effort, he won the first prize in the contest.
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.
Par ses propres efforts et un peu de chance, il gagna le premier prix du concours.
Through his own efforts and a bit of luck, he won first prize in the contest.
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