Translation of "bruit de ferraille" to English

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Dictionary translations for "bruit de ferraille"

le bruit de ferraille m noun

pl. bruits de ferraille

clang [klæŋ] (groupe nominal, son)

clanking noise (Engineering)

Contexts with "bruit de ferraille"

Les gens me demandent : "pourquoi veux-tu chérir un tas de ferraille comme ça ?" Mais cette petite merveille veut tout dire pour moi. People ask me 'why would you want to cherish a piece of junk like that?' But this little beauty means the world to me.

Mon père se plaignait du bruit de la circulation. My father complained about the traffic noise.

On peut entendre le bruit de la mer d'ici. We can hear the ocean from here.

Et lorsque le sablier s'est écoulé, le sablier de la temporalité, lorsque le bruit de la vie séculière s'est tu et que son incessante ou inefficace agitation a pris fin, lorsque tout autour de vous est immobile comme cela est dans l'éternité, alors l'éternité vous interroge vous et chaque individu parmi ces millions et ces millions, à propos d'une seule chose : si vous avez vécu ou pas dans le désespoir. And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.

Si j'entends encore un bruit de ta part, je t'envoie dans ta chambre sans souper. If I hear one more peep out of you I'm sending you to your room without supper.

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