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Il y a **deux** versions à chaque histoire. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#4890594](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4890594) [\#7262840](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7262840)) - That was, in fact,—when, after having long groped one’s way up the dark spiral which perpendicularly pierces the thick wall of the belfries, one emerged, at last abruptly, upon one of the lofty platforms inundated with light and air,—that was, in fact, a fine picture which spread out, on all **sides** at once, before the eye; a spectacle sui generis, of which those of our readers who have had the good fortune to see a Gothic city entire, complete, homogeneous,—a few of which still remain, Nuremberg in Bavaria and Vittoria in Spain,—can readily form an idea; or even smaller specimens, provided that they are well preserved,—Vitré in Brittany, Nordhausen in Prussia. C'était en effet, quand, après avoir tâtonné longtemps dans la ténébreuse spirale qui perce perpendiculairement l'épaisse muraille des clochers, on débouchait enfin brusquement sur l'une des **deux** hautes plates-formes, inondées de jour et d'air, c'était un beau tableau que celui qui se déroulait à la fois de toutes parts sous vos yeux; un spectacle sui generis, dont peuvent aisément se faire une idée ceux de nos lecteurs qui ont eu le bonheur de voir une ville gothique entière, complète, homogène, comme il en reste encore quelques-unes, Nuremberg en Bavière, Vittoria en Espagne; ou même de plus petits échantillons, pourvu qu'ils soient bien conservés, Vitré en Bretagne, Nordhausen en Prusse. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 1794) - ‘Have they not found, have they not divided the plunder? A lady, two ladies to every man; to Sisera a plunder of dyed garments, a plunder of dyed garments embroidered, of dyed garments embroidered on both **sides**, on the necks of the plunder?’ Ne trouvent-ils pas du butin? Ne le partagent-ils pas? Une jeune fille, **deux** jeunes filles par homme, Du butin en vêtements de couleur pour Sisera, Du butin en vêtements de couleur, brodés, Un vêtement de couleur, deux vêtements brodés, Pour le cou du vainqueur. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JDG 5:30) - You can understand both **sides**. Les **deux** points de vue sont compréhensibles. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1265715) - two electro-magnetic one direction clutches, working in opposite **sides**, **deux** embrayages électromagnétiques unidirectionnels, travaillant de manière opposée, ([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 4121758) ## côtés Used about 3 880 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 35 · literary ≈ 10 · biblical ≈ 23 · parliamentary ≈ 610 · legal and administrative ≈ 501 · UN documents ≈ 2 701). - A hexagon has six **sides**. Un hexagone a six **côtés**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and U2FS · checked, community translation · [\#3230719](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3230719) [\#786674](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/786674)) - Pressure on both **sides**. Scie des deux **côtés**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 2761) - He put the poles into the rings on the **sides** of the ark, to bear the ark. Il passa les barres dans les anneaux sur les **côtés** de l’arche, pour porter l’arche. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 37:5) - The warring factions on both **sides** will stop at nothing. Or, rien n’arrêtera les factions belligérantes, et ce des deux **côtés**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 651839) - Beverage can end stock is varnished on both **sides**. Les bandes pour couvercles de boîtes boisson sont vernies des deux **côtés**. ([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 4697408) ## parties Used about 2 619 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 1 371 · legal and administrative ≈ 84 · UN documents ≈ 1 157). - The two **sides** negotiated for days. Les deux **parties** négocièrent durant des jours. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source\_VOA and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#807200](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/807200) [\#1085853](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1085853)) - Both **sides** will benefit from this Directive. Les deux **parties** bénéficieront de cette directive. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1189364) - The provisions of this Memorandum of Understanding may be modified by written agreement between the **Sides**. Les dispositions du présent protocole d’accord peuvent être modifiées par accord écrit entre les **parties**. ([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 2004734) - The **sides** agreed to continue consultations in autumn 2012. Les **parties** sont convenues de poursuivre leurs consultations à l ' automne 2012. ([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 25575395) - The two **sides** signed a peace treaty. Les deux **parties** signèrent un traité de paix. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source\_VOA and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#805472](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/805472) [\#8042639](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8042639)) ## faces Used about 544 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · legal and administrative ≈ 543). - There are two **sides** to everything. Chaque chose a deux **faces**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#11157070](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11157070) [\#13478998](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13478998)) - coated on both **sides** with a layer of epoxy acrylic resin, recouvert sur les deux **faces** d'une couche de résine epoxy acrylique, ([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 4760189) - covered on one side or on both **sides** with a copper foil recouverte sur une face ou sur les deux **faces** d’une pellicule de cuivre ([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 1332525) - covered on both **sides** with one or more layers of plastic material, and recouverte sur les deux **faces** d’une ou plusieurs couches de matière plastique, et ([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 2471418) - Textile fabrics embedded in or coated or covered on both **sides** with polyurethane Tissus imprégnés, enduits ou recouverts sur les deux **faces** de polyuréthane ([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 204749) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Don't always take **sides** with him. Ne te mets pas toujours de son côté. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#286008](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/286008) [\#822303](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/822303)) - Don't always take **sides** with him. Ne prenez pas toujours parti pour lui. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#286008](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/286008) [\#11512171](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11512171)) - He was hemmed in on all **sides**. Il était cerné de toutes parts. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Miktsoanit and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#12214193](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12214193) [\#12214196](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12214196)) ## 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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