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

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La plupart des écoles ont été conçues non pas pour transformer la société, mais pour la reproduire. Most schools were designed not to transform society, but to reproduce it.
L'eau se transforme en vapeur quand elle est bouillie. Water turns into steam when it is boiled.
Un moteur à vapeur transforme la chaleur en énergie. A steam engine transforms heat into power.
Mon père transforma son garage en un bureau. My father converted a garage into a study.
Le sort fut rompu et le porc se transforma en homme. The spell was broken and the pig turned into a man.
Le couple a transformé la chimie en une science moderne. The two of them transformed chemistry into a modern science.
Le corps transforme les calories superflues en graisse. The body converts extra calories into fat.
Quand l'eau est chauffée suffisamment, elle se transforme en gaz. When water is heated, it turns into gas.
Le sort fut rompu et le porc se transforma de nouveau en homme. The spell was broken, and the pig was again transformed into a man.
Le corps transforme les calories en trop en graisse. The body converts extra calories into fat.
Les grenouilles ne se transforment en princes que dans les contes. Frogs turn into princes only in fairy tales.
Le plus fort n'est jamais assez fort pour être toujours le maître, s'il ne transforme la force en droit et l'obéissance en devoir. De là le droit du plus fort. The strongest is never strong enough to always be master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty. From there derives the right of the strongest.
L'habitude transforme les plaisirs luxueux en nécessités ennuyeuses et quotidiennes. Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
Tu auras beau crier "Ouh ! Ouh !", tu ne te transformeras pas en loup. Regardless how loud you scream "Oo-oo!", you won't turn into a wolf.
La crise monétaire britannique s'est transformée en crise politique avec l'échec du gouvernement d'arrêter la chute libre de la livre sterling. Britain's currency crisis has turned into a political one over government failure to stop the pound from going into free-fall.
Je vais le transformer en une maison. I'll turn it into a house.
Agis selon la maxime qui peut en même temps se transformer en loi universelle. Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
Le travail fondamental d'une agence de publicité est d'imaginer comment transformer un désir en besoin. The basic job of an advertising agency is to figure out how to turn a desire into a need.
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