Sentence examples of "désirer" in French
Lorsqu'il affirme désirer la vie éternelle, en fait l'homme désire seulement éviter une mort prématurée, violente ou atroce.
When he claims to desire eternal life, in reality man merely wishes to avoid a premature, violent or gruesome death.
L'enseignement des sciences humaines laisse fortement à désirer au Chili.
The teaching of humanities in Chile leaves a lot to be desired.
Mais, connaissant exactement la tristesse et l’amour et la mort, et que ce sont de vaines images lorsqu’on les contemple de l’espace calme où il faut s’enfermer, il continua de pleurer, et de désirer l’amour, et de craindre la mort.
But, knowing precisely sadness and love and death, and that they are vain images when we observe them from the calm space where we should shut ourselves in, he kept on weeping, and desiring love, and fearing death.
Il dit au tenant de la boutique de livres qu'il désirait revenir là cet après-midi pour acheter le livre.
He told the bookstore keeper that he would come there again to buy the book that afternoon.
Une personne peut être fière sans être vaine. La fierté provient ordinairement de l’opinion que nous avons de nous-mêmes, et la vanité de celle que nous désirons que les autres aient de nous.
A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
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