Sentence examples of "invention" in French

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Translations: all11 invention10 fabrication1
La radio est une invention formidable. Radio is a great invention.
J'ai entendu qu'un prêtre homo a été promu au rang d'évêque, mais ça s'est révélé être une invention. I heard that a gay priest had been promoted to the rank of bishop, but it turned out to be a fabrication.
La calculatrice est une invention merveilleuse. The calculator is a wonderful invention.
L'ordinateur est une invention relativement récente. The computer is a relatively recent invention.
La machine à laver est une invention merveilleuse. The washing machine is a wonderful invention.
Le langage tel que nous le connaissons est une invention humaine. Language, as we know it, is a human invention.
Cette invention est le fruit d'années d'expériences faites avec patience. This invention was the result of years of patient experiment.
Pour lui le divorce est une bonne invention qui a le seul désavantage qu'il faut se marier avant. For him, divorce is a good invention, with one sole disadvantage: you have to get married first.
En 1912, le tailleur autrichien Franz Reichelt est mort en sautant du premier étage de la tour Eiffel alors qu'il voulait tester son invention, le manteau-parachute, qui n'a pas fonctionné... In 1912, the Austrian tailor Franz Reichelt died jumping off the first floor of the Eiffel Tower while trying out his new invention, the parachute coat, which did not work...
Les inventions sont nées, pour ainsi dire, du besoin. Inventions are born, so to speak, of necessity.
Toutes les institutions ecclésiastiques nationales, qu'elles soient juives, chrétiennes ou turques, ne m'apparaissent que comme des inventions humaines, établies pour terrifier l'humanité, la mettre en esclavage et monopoliser le pouvoir et les profits. All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
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