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Meaning: [complex in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/complex/). - Ce livre est **complexe**. This book is **complex**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien\_PDC and rul · checked, community translation · [\#12878277](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12878277) [\#8737111](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8737111)) - Et d'abord, pour ne citer que quelques exemples capitaux, il est, à coup sûr, peu de plus belles pages architecturales que cette façade où, successivement et à la fois, les trois portails creusés en ogive, le cordon brodé et dentelé des vingt-huit niches royales, l'immense rosace centrale flanquée de ses deux fenêtres latérales comme le prêtre du diacre et du sous-diacre, la haute et frêle galerie d'arcades à trèfle qui porte une lourde plate-forme sur ses fines colonnettes, enfin les deux noires et massives tours avec leurs auvents d'ardoise, parties harmonieuses d'un tout magnifique, superposées en cinq étages gigantesques, se développent à l'oeil, en foule et sans trouble, avec leurs innombrables détails de statuaire, de sculpture et de ciselure, ralliés puissamment à la tranquille grandeur de l'ensemble; vaste symphonie en pierre, pour ainsi dire; oeuvre colossale d'un homme et d'un peuple, tout ensemble une et **complexe** comme les Iliades et les Romanceros dont elle est soeur; produit prodigieux de la cotisation de toutes les forces d'une époque, où sur chaque pierre on voit saillir en cent façons la fantaisie de l'ouvrier disciplinée par le génie de l'artiste; sorte de création humaine, en un mot, puissante et féconde comme la création divine dont elle semble avoir dérobé le double caractère: variété, éternité. And, in the first place, to cite only a few leading examples, there certainly are few finer architectural pages than this façade, where, successively and at once, the three portals hollowed out in an arch; the broidered and dentated cordon of the eight and twenty royal niches; the immense central rose window, flanked by its two lateral windows, like a priest by his deacon and subdeacon; the frail and lofty gallery of trefoil arcades, which supports a heavy platform above its fine, slender columns; and lastly, the two black and massive towers with their slate penthouses, harmonious parts of a magnificent whole, superposed in five gigantic stories;—develop themselves before the eye, in a mass and without confusion, with their innumerable details of statuary, carving, and sculpture, joined powerfully to the tranquil grandeur of the whole; a vast symphony in stone, so to speak; the colossal work of one man and one people, all together one and **complex**, like the Iliads and the Romanceros, whose sister it is; prodigious product of the grouping together of all the forces of an epoch, where, upon each stone, one sees the fancy of the workman disciplined by the genius of the artist start forth in a hundred fashions; a sort of human creation, in a word, powerful and fecund as the divine creation of which it seems to have stolen the double character,—variety, eternity. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 1694) - La question est assez **complexe**. The issue is rather a **complex** one. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1669750) - soit d'un **complexe** organique de tungstène or an organic **complex** of tungsten ([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 3763200) - Les PGI sont extrêmement **complexes**. 5. ERP systems are considerably **complex**. ([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 27116458) ## difficult Used about 751 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 293 · UN documents ≈ 459). Meaning: [difficult in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/difficult/). - Vous avez dû réagir à des situations politiques **complexes** et, dans l'ensemble, vous avez fait du bon travail. You had **difficult** political issues to resolve and overall you did a good job. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1320497) - Les exportateurs moins dynamiques ont de plus en plus de difficulté à soutenir la concurrence sur des marchés mondiaux de plus en plus **complexes** et exigeants. Weaker exporters find it increasingly **difficult** to compete in world markets which are becoming ever more sophisticated and demanding. ([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 4306167) - Et derrière ces problèmes juridiques déjà suffisamment **complexes** se cachent, bien sûr, des problèmes de démocratie. Moreover, these legal problems, which may be **difficult** enough, of course conceal the democratic problems. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 301551) - Voici maintenant quelques remarques sur les points les plus **complexes** et les plus contestés de cette deuxième lecture. I would also like to comment on the most **difficult** and controversial points of this second reading, in terms of content. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2029363) - (EN) Monsieur le Président, je souhaiterais commencer par remercier mes collègues qui ont travaillé sur ces dossiers très **complexes**. Mr President, I wish to begin by thanking my colleagues who have worked on these very **difficult** dossiers. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 865848) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Hitler souffrait de trouble de stress post-traumatique **complexe**. Hitler had C-PTSD. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Orange and Orange · checked, community translation · [\#12794838](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12794838) [\#12794841](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12794841)) - Le **complexe** d'infériorité est plus commun que ce que nous pensons. Inferiority complexes are more common than we think. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and mailohilohi · checked, community translation · [\#5664802](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5664802) [\#5647401](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5647401)) - C'était un plan **complexe** destiné à escroquer les héritiers légitimes. It was an intricate scheme to defraud the rightful heirs. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and halfb1t · checked, community translation · [\#2027623](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2027623) [\#10499389](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10499389)) ## Grammar Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/). ## 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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