centres — English to French

How English centres is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: centres (111 874). By style: everyday 2 · literary 1 · parliamentary 2 060 · legal and administrative 4 464 · UN documents 105 347.

centres

Used about 99 827 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 545 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 906 · UN documents ≈ 94 373).

• The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres.

  Il ne saurait pas plus y avoir deux sommets au monde que deux centres à une circonférence.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and jerom · checked, community translation · #413875 #413982

• It seems as though, around these great centres of the movements of a people, the earth, full of germs, trembled and yawned, to engulf the ancient dwellings of men and to allow new ones to spring forth, at the rattle of these powerful machines, at the breath of these monstrous horses of civilization which devour coal and vomit fire.

  Il semble qu'autour de ces grands centres du mouvement des peuples, au roulement de ces puissantes machines, au souffle de ces monstrueux chevaux de la civilisation qui mangent du charbon et vomissent du feu, la terre pleine de germes tremble et s'ouvre pour engloutir les anciennes demeures des hommes et laisser sortir les nouvelles.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 9385

• My second question relates to the centres of excellence.

  Ma deuxième question concerne les centres d'excellence.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 99432

• Help and care centres,

  Centres d'aide et de soins

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 2846234

• United Nations information centres

  Centres d ' information des Nations Unies

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 27226078

détention

Used about 2 195 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 2 195).

• Article 12 of the Law on Pre-trial Detention lays down that in pre-trial detention centres minors must be kept separately from adult detainees.

  132. L ' article 12 de la loi sur la détention provisoire dispose que les mineurs placés dans un centre de détention provisoire doivent être séparés des adultes.

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 10354422

More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

• I personally also insist firmly that there should be flexibility about the training centres.

  Personnellement, je tiens aussi beaucoup à ce que le lieu de formation soit flexible.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 281786

• Europe is being constructed by beginning to construct European centres for doing politics.

  L'Europe se construit d'abord en fondant des lieux européens de la politique.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 194140

• The proof is that the Russian mafia tried to invest its dirty money in several European financial centres before deciding on New York, which does not recognise banking secrecy.

  La preuve : la mafia russe a cherché à placer son argent sale sur plusieurs places européennes, avant d'atterrir à New York, qui ne connaît pourtant pas le secret bancaire.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 73195

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