Sentence examples of "faire échec" in French

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Faire ce genre de chose vous fait paraître stupide. Doing that sort of thing makes you look stupid.

Cette expérience était un échec. That experiment was a failure.

Tom ne pourrait pas faire une telle chose. Tom couldn't do something like that.

Essaie de le tenir en échec. Try to keep it down.

Êtes-vous sûr qu'elle peut faire ça ? Are you sure she can do this?

Tu devrais reconnaître ton échec. You should acknowledge your failure.

N'as-tu rien à faire de mieux de ton temps ? Don't you have anything better to do with your time?

Sa tentative se solda par un échec. His attempt ended in failure.

Que penses-tu qu'elle soit maintenant en train de faire ? What do you think she is doing now?

Il accusa les autres de son propre échec. He blamed others for his own failure.

Vous êtes un très bon secrétaire. Si vous ne vous étiez pas occupé de tout, je n'aurais rien pu faire. Vous êtes formidable. You are a really good secretary. If you didn't take care of everything, I couldn't do anything. You are just great.

Elle a attribué son échec à la malchance. She ascribed her failure to bad luck.

Tu dois à ceux qui dépendent de toi de le faire. You owe it to those who are dependent upon you to do this.

Sa paresse provoqua son échec, et avec raison. His idleness resulted in the failure, and with reason.

J'aime faire des tours de magie aux enfants, mais parfois ça tombe à plat. I like to perform magic tricks for kids, but they sometimes fall flat.

C'est toi qui es à blâmer pour cet échec. It is you who are to blame for the failure.

Nous ferions mieux d'en faire part aux autres. We better tell the others.

Il attribue son échec à la mauvaise chance. He ascribes his failure to bad luck.

Tu aurais dû ainsi faire. You should have done so.

C'est la raison de son échec. That's the cause of his failure.

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