Usage examples of "appliquer esprit" in French with translation to English

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Tout univers suffisamment simple pour être compris est trop simple pour produire un esprit capable de le comprendre. Any universe simple enough to be understood is too simple to produce a mind able to understand it.
Les lois étaient très difficiles à appliquer. The laws were very difficult to enforce.
Un esprit satisfait est une fête perpétuelle. A contented mind is a perpetual feast.
Ne peux-tu pas appliquer les règles de manière un peu plus flexible ? Can't you apply the rules a little more elastically?
L'humour peut être disséqué comme une grenouille, mais la chose meurt dans l'opération et les entrailles rebutent quiconque à l'exception du pur esprit scientifique. Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
On pourrait appliquer la théorie des équilibres ponctués aux langues. We could apply the theory of punctuated equilibrium to languages.
La beauté n'est pas une qualité dans les choses elles-mêmes: elle existe seulement dans l'esprit qui les contemple; et chaque esprit perçoit une beauté différente. Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
Mary et Tom se disputèrent au sujet des étiquettes controversées à appliquer à cette phrase. Mary and Tom quarelled about the controversial tags to apply to this sentence.
Les livres sont les enfants de notre esprit. Books are the offspring of one's mind.
Ne pouvez-vous pas y appliquer une petite remise ? Can't you discount it a little?
Prendre un bain m'aide à libérer mon esprit de mes soucis. Taking a hot bath helps me take my mind off my worries.
Ne pouvez-vous pas appliquer les règles de manière un peu plus flexible ? Can't you apply the rules a little more elastically?
Un esprit universel est quelqu'un qui en connaît un paquet sur un tas de trucs. A polymath is someone who knows a whole lot about a whole lot.
Vous ne pouvez pas appliquer cette règle dans tous les cas. You can't apply this rule to every case.
Rien ne reste aussi vivant dans notre esprit que les impressions que nous avons reçues dans notre jeunesse. Nothing is left so vividly in our mind as the impressions we received in our younger days.
Je ne peux pas l'enlever de mon esprit. I can't get her out of my mind.
Alimente mon esprit et j'alimenterai mon estomac ! Give me food for thought, and I will find food for my stomach!
Sa valeur était soutenue de toutes les autres grandes qualités : il avait un esprit vaste et profond, une âme noble et élevée, et une égale capacité pour la guerre et pour les affaires. To his valour he added a most exquisite genius and understanding, grandeur of mind, and a capacity equally turned for military or civil affairs.
Le doute est entièrement absent de son esprit. Doubt is entirely absent from his mind.
Un esprit sain dans un corps sain. A sound mind dwells in a sound body.
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