Sentence examples of "petite distance" in French
Il tenait les envahisseurs à distance à la mitrailleuse.
He kept the invaders at bay with a machine gun.
"Trente dollars, c'est beaucoup pour cette petite pièce", pensa-t-il.
"Thirty dollars is a lot for that small room," he thought.
La distance entre les étoiles se mesure en années-lumière.
The distance between stars is measured in light years.
La lieue a comme origine la distance que peut parcourir un homme ou un cheval en une heure.
The league originally referred to the distance a person or a horse could walk in an hour.
Il doit être un bon marcheur pour avoir couvert une distance aussi longue.
He must be a good walker to walk such a long distance.
Il était une fois, dans un petit village une petite fille qui s'appelait Petit chaperon vert.
Once upon a time, there lived in a village a little girl called Little Green Hood.
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.
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