And at Dolshanka, long before the Bolsheviks arrived, the days were as rough and long as plowing, as tough as thick tree trunks beneath the saw, and tasted of hard-earned bread.
Et à Dolchanka, bien avant l'arrivée des bolcheviques, les jours avaient la longueur rude des labours, la dureté des gros troncs sous la scie, le goût du pain chèrement gagné.
Makine, Andreï / Requiem For A Lost EmpireMakine, Andreï / Requiem pour l'Est
No, he would never forgive him for treating himself in that dirty fashion to delicacies on the sly, while he, Mahoudeau, was half starving, and eating dry bread.
Non! jamais il ne pardonnerait qu’on se payât salement des douceurs en cachette, lorsque lui mangeait son pain sec!
Zola, Emile / His MasterpieceZola, Emile / L'Oeuvre
L'Oeuvre
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His Masterpiece
Zola, Emile
Talk about breaking his jaw—I'd stave in his bread-pan, I'd—there was a whole Camembert in there, I'll go and look for it."
Tu parles que j’y casserais la gueule, que j’y défoncerais le bide, que j’y… Y avait dedans un camembert pas entamé. J’vas encore chercher.
Barbusse, Henri / Under fireBarbusse, Henri / Le feu
There was great poverty in the surrounding country, especially that year, the winter being a hard one, and bread so dear, that only well-to-do folk could purchase it.
Il y avait grande misère dans le pays, surtout cette année-là, où l’hiver était rude et le pain si cher, que les riches seuls en pouvaient acheter.
Zola, Emile / Contes à NinonZola, Emile / Stories for Ninon
Stories for Ninon
Zola, Emile
Contes à Ninon
Zola, Emile
Little by little the revolution was casting aside the revolutionaries and life was reverting to essentials, land and bread.
La révolution se débarrassait peu à peu des révolutionnaires et la vie revenait à sa substance de terre et de pain.
Makine, Andreï / Requiem For A Lost EmpireMakine, Andreï / Requiem pour l'Est
When inside the house, and eating the Muskrat's bread, and laughing and talking with his pretty darters, I might put his eyes into so thick a fog, that he couldn't even see the door, much less the land."
Quand je serai chez le Rat-Musqué, mangeant son pain, riant et jasant avec ses jolies filles, il faut que je lui couvre les yeux d’un brouillard si épais, qu’il ne puisse voir sa porte et encore moins la terre.
Cooper, James Fenimore / The DeerslayerCooper, James Fenimore / Le tueur de daims
But that which above all made him the worst of scapegraces was the supercilious disdain which he entertained for the poor devils who had to earn their bread.
Mais ce qui fit surtout de lui le pire des garnements, ce fut le beau dédain qu’il contracta pour les pauvres diables qui gagnaient le matin leur pain du soir.
Zola, Emile / The Fortune of the RougonsZola, Emile / La Fortune des Rougon
We had just commenced the third course - the bread and jam - when a gentleman in shirt-sleeves and a short pipe came along, and wanted to know if we knew that we were trespassing.
Nous venions à peine d’entamer le troisième service – pain et confiture – lorsqu’un monsieur en manches de chemise et pipe au bec s’approcha de nous et nous demanda si nous savions que nous étions en infraction.
Jerome, Jerome Klapka / Three Men in a BoatJerome, Jerome Klapka / Trois hommes dans le bateau
Trois hommes dans le bateau
Jerome, Jerome Klapka
Three Men in a Boat
Jerome, Jerome Klapka
A cry for justice arose from every lip, for justice upon this earth, justice for those who hunger and thirst, whom alms are weary of relieving after eighteen hundred years of Gospel teaching, and who still and ever lack bread to eat.
Un cri de justice montait de toutes les lèvres, la justice sur cette terre, la justice pour ceux qui ont faim, que l’aumône est lasse de secourir depuis dix-huit siècles d’évangile, et qui n’ont toujours pas de pain à manger.
Zola, Emile / The Three Cities - ParisZola, Emile / Les Trois Villes - Paris
Les Trois Villes - Paris
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The Three Cities - Paris
Zola, Emile
Providence must assuredly have made a great outlay up there, and the people are in want of bread, sir!
Sûrement le bon Dieu a fait là-haut une grosse dépense, et le peuple manque de pain, monsieur !
Zola, Emile / Contes à NinonZola, Emile / Stories for Ninon
Stories for Ninon
Zola, Emile
Contes à Ninon
Zola, Emile
We shall thus provide bread for the people, and ensure the admiration of posterity.
Ainsi, du pain au menu peuple et l’admiration de la postérité.
Zola, Emile / Contes à NinonZola, Emile / Stories for Ninon
Stories for Ninon
Zola, Emile
Contes à Ninon
Zola, Emile
They halted for a meal, and we stopped, too, and lunched off some brown bread and dried figs and a flask of very sour wine.
Les soldats firent halte afin de prendre leur repas; nous nous arrêtâmes également et déjeunâmes de pain bis, de figues et d’un flacon de vin fort amer.
Buchan, John / GreenmantleBuchan, John / Le prophète au manteau vert
He did not wish to be a parasite; he was setting off to the conquest of another land, where he would grow the bread he needed, since his own country had no field left for him.
Il ne voulait pas être un parasite, il s’en allait à la conquête d’une autre terre où il ferait pousser son pain, puisque la patrie, devenue trop étroite, n’avait plus de champ pour lui.
Zola, Emile / FruitfulnessZola, Emile / Les Quatre Evangiles - Fecondite
Les Quatre Evangiles - Fecondite
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Fruitfulness
Zola, Emile
Yes, on the days when we happen to have some bread we dip our bread into it.'
Oui, les jours où nous avons du pain, nous trempons notre pain dedans.»
Zola, Emile / His MasterpieceZola, Emile / L'Oeuvre
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Zola, Emile
His Masterpiece
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Collocations
unleavened bread
pain azyme
brown bread
pain bis
buttered bread
tartine de beurre
Word forms
bread
noun
Singular
Plural
Common case
bread
breads
Possessive case
bread's
breads'
bread
verb
Basic forms
Past
breaded
Imperative
bread
Present Participle (Participle I)
breading
Past Participle (Participle II)
breaded
Present Indefinite, Active Voice
I bread
we bread
you bread
you bread
he/she/it breads
they bread
Present Continuous, Active Voice
I am breading
we are breading
you are breading
you are breading
he/she/it is breading
they are breading
Present Perfect, Active Voice
I have breaded
we have breaded
you have breaded
you have breaded
he/she/it has breaded
they have breaded
Present Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I have been breading
we have been breading
you have been breading
you have been breading
he/she/it has been breading
they have been breading
Past Indefinite, Active Voice
I breaded
we breaded
you breaded
you breaded
he/she/it breaded
they breaded
Past Continuous, Active Voice
I was breading
we were breading
you were breading
you were breading
he/she/it was breading
they were breading
Past Perfect, Active Voice
I had breaded
we had breaded
you had breaded
you had breaded
he/she/it had breaded
they had breaded
Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I had been breading
we had been breading
you had been breading
you had been breading
he/she/it had been breading
they had been breading
Future Indefinite, Active Voice
I shall/will bread
we shall/will bread
you will bread
you will bread
he/she/it will bread
they will bread
Future Continuous, Active Voice
I shall/will be breading
we shall/will be breading
you will be breading
you will be breading
he/she/it will be breading
they will be breading
Future Perfect, Active Voice
I shall/will have breaded
we shall/will have breaded
you will have breaded
you will have breaded
he/she/it will have breaded
they will have breaded
Future Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I shall/will have been breading
we shall/will have been breading
you will have been breading
you will have been breading
he/she/it will have been breading
they will have been breading
Future in the Past Indefinite, Active Voice
I should/would bread
we should/would bread
you would bread
you would bread
he/she/it would bread
they would bread
Future in the Past Continuous, Active Voice
I should/would be breading
we should/would be breading
you would be breading
you would be breading
he/she/it would be breading
they would be breading
Future in the Past Perfect, Active Voice
I should/would have breaded
we should/would have breaded
you would have breaded
you would have breaded
he/she/it would have breaded
they would have breaded
Future in the Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice