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Le **barème** des impôts a été révisé cette année. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#13406250](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13406250) [\#13406249](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13406249)) - I also support the amendments opposing the proposed decrease in the cereals and sugars **scales**. Je soutiens les amendements qui suppriment la diminution proposée des **barèmes** pour les céréales et les sucres. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1727355) - the premium **scales** and levels referred to in Article 101; les **barèmes** et les niveaux de prime prévus à l'article 101; ([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 1549134) - (a) Base/floor salary **scale**; a) **Barème** des traitements de base minima; ([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 2274035) - I am referring to the document entitled 'Structural Funds: Guidelines on the principles, criteria and indicative **scales** to be applied by Commission departments in determining financial corrections'. Je fais référence au document intitulé "Fonds structurels - Orientations définissant les principes, les critères et les **barèmes** indicatifs à appliquer pour la détermination des corrections financières". ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1002636) ## échelle Used about 18 890 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 18 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 228 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 879 · UN documents ≈ 14 763). Forms: échelle, échelles. - The map's **scale** is 1:1000. L'**échelle** de la carte est 1/1000. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by araneo and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#13744342](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13744342) [\#13743822](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13743822)) - Fauchelevent did not recoil in the face of this almost chimerical undertaking; this poor peasant of Picardy without any other ladder than his self-devotion, his good will, and a little of that old rustic cunning, on this occasion enlisted in the service of a generous enterprise, undertook to **scale** the difficulties of the cloister, and the steep escarpments of the rule of Saint-Benoît. Devant cette tentative presque chimérique, Fauchelevent ne recula point; ce pauvre paysan picard, sans autre **échelle** que son dévouement, sa bonne volonté, et un peu de cette vieille finesse campagnarde mise cette fois au service d'une intention généreuse, entreprit d'escalader les impossibilités du cloître et les rudes escarpements de la règle de saint Benoît. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11202) - On a smaller **scale**, this is what we call piracy. À une **échelle** plus modeste, c'est ce que nous appelons de la piraterie. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1313147) - A++-G and A+++-D **scales**, respectively: **Échelles** de A++ à G et de A+++ à D, respectivement: ([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 3656501) - 1. Drawing not to **scale**. Notes: Le dessin n ' est pas à l ' **échelle** ([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 15746129) ## dépenses Used about 191 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 107 · legal and administrative ≈ 85). - Lastly, the Resolution makes an inappropriate connection between the debate on own resources, revenue, the Financial Perspectives and spending, which places the correction mechanisms of the main liquid contributors on the negotiating **scales**. Enfin, la résolution établit un lien inadéquat entre le débat sur les ressources propres, les recettes, les perspectives financières et les **dépenses**, ce qui place les mécanismes de correction des principaux contributeurs nets dans la balance des négociations. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 628427) - This appropriation is intended to cover the expenditure relating to studies and technical assistance in connection with large-**scale** building projects. Ce crédit est destiné à couvrir les **dépenses** liées aux études et à l’assistance technique relatives aux projets immobiliers de grande envergure. ([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 4477792) - It is not a sum of appropriations, reflecting needs, it is the difference between two **scales**, neither of which you have mastery of. On the one hand contributions which must remain static, on the other, expenses benefiting the fifteen Member States, which are fixed. Ce n'est pas une addition de crédits, reflétant des besoins, c'est une différence entre deux ordres de grandeur sur lesquels vous n'aviez aucune maîtrise: d'un côté, des contributions qui ne devaient pas bouger, de l'autre des **dépenses** au profit des quinze États membres, qui étaient incompressibles. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1782861) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - The **scale** seems to be off by two pounds. La balance semble décalée de deux livres. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#562083](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/562083) [\#567770](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/567770)) - If you **scale** the image up it might pixelate. Si tu agrandis l'image, elle peut se pixeliser. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and Mutusen · checked, community translation · [\#968086](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/968086) [\#1317917](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1317917)) - I felt a bit overcome by the **scale** of the implications. Je me suis senti un peu submergé par l'ampleur des conséquences. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ddnktr and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#11291990](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11291990) [\#11291991](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11291991)) ## 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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