French English Dictionary

Français - English

sous in English:

1. under under


under the bed
Under the circumstances, bankruptcy is inevitable.
Under the new law, husbands can take days off to care for their children.
You are under no obligation to divulge that information.
She wished for a more relaxing life, but that was impossible under the circumstances.
The area was cordoned off while fire fighters tried to keep the blaze under control.
She's been living for the last five years under an assumed name.
A lot of companies are going under lately because banks are so tight with their money.
Japan came under American pressure to open its financial market.
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
I have struggled under extreme difficulties for a long time.
By freeing thought from its object, Descartes made it possible to view the latter in strictly mechanical terms, reopening the way to science, suffocated for more than fifteen centuries under religious nonsense.
Bear in mind that, under such circumstances, we have no alternative but to find another buyer.
I hear the governor's been getting money under the table from tobacco companies.
People under eighteen aren't supposed to buy alcoholic drinks.

English word "sous"(under) occurs in sets:

Les prépositions spatiales et les adverbs de lieu
Fiches du livre - "Salome" (Emma Marshall)
Fiches du livre - "When London Burned" (G. A. Henty)
La cité et les moyens des transports
Travel and adventure must haves

2. sub sub


We had a sub in school today.
Listen Jack. Could you sub for me next Monday?
I have to renew my sub to a scifi magazine.

English word "sous"(sub) occurs in sets:

Fiches du livre - "Franz Liszt" (James Huneker)
Fiches du livre - "The Fleets at War" (Archibald H...
Fiches du livre - "The Jumble Book A Jumble of Goo...
Fiches du livre - "The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 2 ...
Fiches du livre - "Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Osso...

3. beneath


The ice will crack beneath our weight.
On the plaque beneath the console table, the King had those who were behind the interior's design - Fontana, Bacciarelli and Andre Le Brun - immortalised.
it's beneath contempt
The business prospered beneath his guiding hand.
And in the Indian Ocean, some islands of the Maldives will disappear completely beneath the water.
I have spread my dreams beneath your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
There are as many vipers hiding in the grass as there is evil lying beneath a beautiful countenance.
Lift, of course, is the push that spinning propellers create beneath a flying machine.
This retracts the needle and withdraws it, leaving the implant beneath the skin.
beneath it all he is still love her (emtion). bet
A house built on stilts to allow air to circulate beneath
Put her six bloody feet beneath me.
Tresting turned back toward the skaa, who worked quietly beneath the bloody sun and the lazy flakes of ash.
in the labyrinths beneath central Moscow
stones beneath a river

English word "sous"(beneath) occurs in sets:

Fiches du livre - "The Boy with Wings" (Berta Ruck)
Fiches du livre - "Select Poems of Thomas Gray" (T...
Fiches du livre - "McClure's Magazine, Vol.VI., No...
Fiches du livre - "The Giant of Bern and Orm Unger...
Fiches du livre - "The Knickerbocker, Vol. 10, No....

4. sub's



English word "sous"(sub's) occurs in sets:

Fiches du livre - "Tom Swift and the Electronic Hy...
Fiches du livre - "Sign of the Green Arrow A Myste...
Fiches du livre - "A Watch-dog of the North Sea A ...