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([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Miktsoanit and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#12235963](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12235963) [\#2101634](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2101634)) - Let us not blame these **poor** children. N'accusons pas ces **pauvres** enfants. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 31279) - For this ointment might have been sold for much and given to the **poor**.” On aurait pu vendre ce parfum très cher, et en donner le prix aux **pauvres**. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 26:9) - The world' s poorest of the **poor**. Les plus **pauvres** de cette planète. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 250462) - The soil is essentially slatey, **poor**, shallow and with **poor** water holding capacity. Les sols de la zone sont essentiellement argileux, **pauvres**, peu profonds et d’une faible capacité de rétention. ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 2956662) ## standard Used about 5 564 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 107 · legal and administrative ≈ 239 · UN documents ≈ 5 218). - Thirdly, Mr McCreevy is right now trying to say that the whole reason why we have a financial crisis is the agencies and bureaux - Standard & **Poors**, FTSE and others - and that we are going to regulate them. Troisièmement, M. McCreevy a raison de dire que la crise financière est due aux agences et aux bureaux - **Standard** & Poors, FTSE et autres - et que nous allons les réglementer. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1099777) - Rating category (Standard 愦灭;amp; **Poor**’s) Catégorie de notation (**Standard** 愦灭;amp; Poor’s) ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 5638709) - See, for example Standard and **Poors**, “Sovereign credit rating: A primer”, Standard & **Poor**’s Credit Week, 16 April, 1997. Voir par exemple **Standard** and Poors, " Sovereign credit rating: A primer " , Standard & Poor ' s Credit Week, 16 avril 1997. ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 5487131) - Exposure-based approach: (ii) model developed by Standard 愦灭;amp; **Poor**'s «Exposure based approach»: ii) modèle développé par **Standard** 愦灭;amp; Poor's ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 3131259) - Standard & **Poors** **Standard** & Poors ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 9757202) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - **Poor** crops may cause famine. De mauvaises récoltes peuvent causer la famine. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#266263](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/266263) [\#7804236](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7804236)) - All this was very sad for the **poor** little duckling. Tout ceci était bien triste pour le pauvre petit caneton. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3757208](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3757208) [\#3758620](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3758620)) - I'm **poor**, too. Je suis pauvre également. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#8397889](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8397889) [\#9129433](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9129433)) ## Grammar Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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