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Ce livre parle de la **torture**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by reblica and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#4748878](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4748878) [\#4676137](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4676137)) - Child! **torture** me with one hand, but caress me with the other! Enfant! **torture**-moi d'une main, mais caresse-moi de l'autre! ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 5385) - There are also reports of **torture**. On signale également des cas de **torture**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1780650) - Victims of **torture** and violence Victimes de **tortures** ou de violences ([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 2850798) - He imprisons and **tortures** at Guantanamo. Il incarcère et **torture** à Guantanamo. ([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 16561926) ## ou Used about 3 062 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · UN documents ≈ 3 061). - I don't know who is the biggest asshole, whether it's Vladimir Putin or Bashar al-Assad: one murders journalists and causes massacres in Chechnya and Georgia, the other **tortures** children. How can their wives even stand them? Je ne sais pas qui est le plus gros salopard, de Vladimir Poutine **ou** de Bashar Al Assad : l'un assassine les journalistes et a saigné la Tchétchénie et la Géorgie, l'autre fait torturer des enfants. Comment les femmes de ces mecs peuvent les supporter ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lucasmg123 and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#9953076](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9953076) [\#1582006](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1582006)) - " Any public official who personally **tortures** or orders the **torture** of accused persons shall be punished by a term of 3 to 10 years ' imprisonment. " Tout agent de l ' État qui aura torturé **ou** donné l ' ordre de torturer un prévenu sera puni d ' un emprisonnement de 3 à 10 ans. > > . ([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 10439072) - “Any public official who personally **tortures** or orders the **torture** of accused persons shall be punished by a term of 3 to 10 years ' imprisonment.” Tout fonctionnaire **ou** officier public qui aura torturé ou donné l ' ordre de torturer un prévenu sera puni d ' un emprisonnement de trois à dix ans. " ([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 3747677) ## traitements Used about 1 530 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 530). - view of this statement and allegations of ill-treatment already undergone, fears were expressed that he might be subjected to further **torture** or ill-treatment. Ces propos et les mauvais **traitements** déjà subis par l ' intéressé laissaient craindre qu ' il ne fût à nouveau torturé et maltraité. ([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 1964634) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - In the U.S., it is illegal to **torture** people in order to get information from them. Aux États-Unis, il est illégal de torturer des gens pour en obtenir des informations. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source\_VOA and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#682202](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/682202) [\#8314937](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8314937)) - They're going to **torture** Tom. Elles vont torturer Tom. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#3520379](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3520379) [\#5647317](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5647317)) - They're going to **torture** Tom. Ils vont torturer Tom. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#3520379](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3520379) [\#5647316](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5647316)) ## 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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