Sentence examples of "vanter les mérites" in French
Les deux opinions ont des mérites et des démérites, aussi ne vais-je pas décider tout de suite laquelle soutenir.
There are merits and demerits to both your opinions so I'm not going to decide right away which to support.
Vous pensiez à quoi en laissant les loyalistes dans le château ?
What do you think you're doing letting the loyalists into the castle?
Il avait espéré qu’on le présenterait à ces demoiselles, dont il avait ouï vanter la beauté ; mais il ne vit que le père. Ces dames furent plus heureuses ; elles eurent l’avantage de s’assurer, par une des fenêtres, qu’il portait un habit bleu et montait un cheval noir.
He had entertained hopes of being admitted to a sight of the young ladies, of whose beauty he had heard much; but he saw only the father. The ladies were somewhat more fortunate, for they had the advantage of ascertaining from an upper window that he wore a blue coat, and rode a black horse.
Il tenait les envahisseurs à distance à la mitrailleuse.
He kept the invaders at bay with a machine gun.
Y a-t-il des marchés ou des supermarchés près d'ici ? Est-ce pratique pour acheter les objets de la vie quotidienne ?
Are there any markets or supermarkets around here? Is it convenient for daily shopping?
Les Français sont vraiment un peuple bizarre : parmi ceux qui lisent cette phrase, un sur deux va vérifier si l'espace avant le double point est bien fine et insécable.
The French are a really strange people: every other person who reads this sentence will check if the space before the colon is really thin and non-breaking.
Les garçons ont tendance à regarder de haut leurs jeunes sœurs.
Boys tend to look down on their younger sisters.
La distance entre les étoiles se mesure en années-lumière.
The distance between stars is measured in light years.
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