Sentence examples of "revenir bredouille" in French
Une fois que le changement social commence, on ne peut pas revenir en arrière. On ne peut pas désapprendre à lire à une personne. On ne peut pas humilier une personne qui se sent fière. On ne peut pas opprimer les gens qui n'ont plus peur.
Once social change begins it can not be reversed. You can not un-educate the person who has learned to read. You can not humiliate the person who feels pride. You can not oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.
Il quitta sa ville natale à l'âge de quinze ans pour ne jamais revenir.
He left his hometown at the age of fifteen never to return.
« Quand vas-tu revenir ? » « Tout dépend du temps qu'il fera. »
"When will you be back?" "It all depends on the weather."
Je voudrais quitter cette ville et ne jamais revenir.
I would like to leave this town and never come back.
Il va de soi que les gens ne veulent pas de la guerre. Pourquoi un pauvre bon à rien dans une ferme voudrait risquer sa vie dans une guerre lorsque le mieux qu'il peut en retirer est de revenir dans sa ferme en un seul morceau ? Naturellement, les gens du commun ne veulent pas de la guerre ; ni en Russie, ni en Angleterre, ni en Amérique, pas non plus en Allemagne, en l'occurrence, ça va de soi.
Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood.
Il dit au tenant de la boutique de livres qu'il désirait revenir là cet après-midi pour acheter le livre.
He told the bookstore keeper that he would come there again to buy the book that afternoon.
Bob se pressa de revenir à la maison pour regarder l'émission de télé.
Bob hurried home in order to watch the TV program.
Un jour, une sorcière envoya le mauvais oeil à Christophe Colomb... et ne le vit jamais revenir.
A witch once gave Christopher Columbus an evil eye... and never got it back.
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