Sentence examples of "tentatives" in French

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Translations: all23 attempt21 effort2
Toutes nos tentatives ont échoué. All our attempts failed.
Toutes nos tentatives furent vaines. All our attempts were in vain.
Il met toute son énergie dans ses tentatives. He makes no half-hearted attempts.
Les tentatives ont été la plupart du temps des échecs. The attempts were for the most part unsuccessful.
Les chefs-d'oeuvre ne sont jamais que d'heureuses tentatives. Masterpieces are but successful attempts.
Les chefs-d'oeuvre ne sont jamais que des tentatives heureuses. Masterpieces are only successful attempts.
L'homme ne peut être libre s'il ignore qu'il est soumis à la nécessité, car sa liberté est toujours gagnée par ses tentatives, jamais complètement fructueuses, de s'en libérer lui-même. Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
La langue française, d’ailleurs, est une eau pure que les écrivains maniérés n’ont jamais pu et ne pourront jamais troubler. Chaque siècle a jeté dans ce courant limpide ses modes, ses archaïsmes prétentieux et ses préciosités, sans que rien surnage de ces tentatives inutiles, de ces efforts impuissants. La nature de cette langue est d’être claire, logique et nerveuse. Elle ne se laisse pas affaiblir, obscurcir ou corrompre. The French language, by the way, is a clear stream that affected writers have never been, and will never be able to ripple. Each century has thrown in this limpid current its fashions, its pretentious archaisms and its preciousness, without anything surfacing from those useless attempts, those powerless efforts. The nature of this language is to be clear, logical and nervous. It won't let itself be weakened, obscured or corrupted.
Je réussis à ma première tentative. I succeeded in my first attempt.
Le Secrétaire Général fait une ultime tentative de négociation de traité de paix entre les deux factions en guerre. The Secretary General is making a last-ditch effort to negotiate a peace treaty between the two warring factions.
Sa tentative se solda par un échec. His attempt ended in failure.
Le Secrétaire Général fait une tentative désespérée pour négocier un traité de paix entre les deux factions en guerre. The Secretary General is making a last-ditch effort to negotiate a peace treaty between the two warring factions.
Sa tentative de traverser la rivière a échouée. He failed in his attempt to swim the river.
Sa tentative d'évasion fut couronnée de succès. His attempt to escape was successful.
La tentative s'est soldée par un échec. The attempt ended in failure.
Il a réussi l'examen à la première tentative. He succeeded in the examination at his first attempt.
Le désespoir l'a conduit à faire une tentative de suicide. Despair drove him to attempt suicide.
La troisième tentative de cet homme pour arrêter de fumer a échoué. The man's third attempt to stop smoking failed.
Elle a échoué dans sa tentative de traverser la Manche à la nage. She failed in her attempt to swim the Channel.
Elle n'a pas réussi, mais c'était sa première tentative après tout. She did not succeed, but after all that was her first attempt.
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