Usage examples of "grands" in French with translation to English

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Les grands pandas vivent seulement en Chine. Giant pandas live only in China.
Noël arrive à grands pas. Christmas is fast approaching.
Larry est monté sur ses grands chevaux en croyant que le commentaire de Fred était de mauvais goût. Because he thought Fred's comment was tacky, Larry got up on his high horse.
Les rideaux étaient grands ouverts. The curtains were all open.
Vous êtes des grands maintenant. You're grown up now.
Le printemps approche à grands pas. Spring is coming soon.
Les petites rivières font les grands fleuves. Many a little makes a mickle.
Il se donne de grands airs lorsqu'elle est là. He put on airs in her presence.
Il se faufile entre les grands arbres... et passe sous le pont. He threads his way between the trees... and rushes under the bridge.
Les grands singes ont un niveau d'intelligence supérieur à celui des chiens. Apes rank above dogs in intelligence.
Un des plus grands moteurs de recherche d'Internet établit que « Rapide est mieux que lent ». One of the major Internet search engines states that ‘Fast is better than slow’.
Je fais de grands voyages, vois des pays étrangers, fais des choses que je n'avais jamais faites auparavant. I'm making far journeys, seeing foreign countries, doing things I never did before.
Il n’y a rien, après tout, de comparable à la danse; je la regarde comme un des plus grands raffinements de la civilisation. There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished society.
Jamais cour n’a eu tant de belles personnes et d’hommes admirablement bien faits ; et il semblait que la nature eût pris plaisir à placer ce qu’elle donne de plus beau dans les plus grandes princesses et dans les plus grands princes. Never were finer women or more accomplished men seen in any Court, and Nature seemed to have taken pleasure in lavishing her greatest graces on the greatest persons.
J'ai trouvé un jour dans une école un garçon de taille moyenne qui maltraitait un petit garçon. Je lui ai fait la leçon, mais il a répondu : "Les grands me frappent, alors je frappe les petits ; c'est juste." Par ces paroles, il a résumé toute l'histoire du genre humain. I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.
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