Perhaps the event that will draw the most attention is the launch of a year-long festival of French Arts and Culture in Japan.
最引人注目的或许是在日本举办的为期一年的法国文化艺术节。
The English people are the world's biggest fans of fast food, while the French are the least interested in quick meals, according to a survey done last year.
根据去年的一项调查，英国人是世界上最喜欢快餐的人，而法国人对快餐最不感兴趣。
At this time of the year they marvel at the laziness of their European Cousins, particularly the French.
在今年的这个时候，他们就开始对他们欧洲特别是法国的表兄弟们的懒散表示惊讶。
An analysis of wine prices by two French researchers shows that prices are driven by the label on the bottle, which gives the year and the origin of the wine.
两位法国研究人员撰写的一篇关于红酒价格的分析文章表明，红酒的价格是由酒瓶上的标签决定的——标签上写明了酒的年代和产地。
This week it said operating profits for the first six months of the year would fall by 23%, mainly due to an abysmal performance in French hypermarkets (France accounts for 44% of the group's sales).
本周有消息称家乐福法国分支经营惨淡导致上半年的营业利润下跌23%(法国销售量占该集团销售总额的44%)。
If the strategy fails to revive Carrefour's French hypermarkets by the end of next year, some investors will demand that the firm be taken to the charcuterie counter and carved up.
如果明年年底这个策略依然无法使家乐福法国的超级卖场重整旗鼓，一些投资者就会将这家企业牵到屠宰市场上，将其瓜分一空。
In his first year as king, François won a significant military victory at Marignano, regaining control of the Duchy of Milan, the French gate to Italy.
当上国王的第一年，弗朗索瓦就在马里尼雅诺赢得了一场意义非凡的军事胜利，重新控制了米兰公国——那是法国通往意大利的门户。
Just last week the French Assembly passed a law that forces ISPs to disconnect those suspected of illegally sharing copyright infringing material on the third warning for up to a year.
上个星期，法国议会通过了一项法案，要求网络运营商对那些一年内收到了三次警告仍有提供非法侵权资料嫌疑的用户停止提供网络连接服务。
Details of the doomed plane's last minutes began to emerge last month as French air accident investigators studied data recorders recovered from the wreck earlier this year.
今年早些时候，法国事故调查人员研究了飞机残骸中的数据记录仪，飞机失事前几分钟的一些细节于上个月浮出了水面。
Named French player of the year for 2010 and was short-listed for the 2011 PFA player of the year alongside Carlos Tevez.
他在2010年获得法国年度球员称号，2011年与特维斯一道列在英超年度球员的候选名单之中。
Mr Kotick's greatest coup was the merger of Activision with the gaming arm of Vivendi, a French media conglomerate, completed last year.
科迪克的绝顶高招要属去年完成的合并动视公司和威望迪游戏分支，威望迪是法国的一个媒体集团。
Under the command of General Jeffrey Amherst, the British returned the following year and were able to defeat the French, who destroyed much of Fort Carillon and withdrew to Canada.
在杰弗里阿默斯特将军的指挥下，英军在第二年再次回到这里打败了法国，这位将军重创了卡里永堡，并撤回到加拿大。
A mistral wind sent it south over a nearby motorway on one of the busiest travel days of the year as the French left for their summer holidays.
西北风把浓烟吹向南边附近的公路，此时正值法国的暑假季，人们都在度假的路上，公路上交通异常繁忙。
At the beginning of February Louis Vuitton moet Hennessy, the French luxury-goods empire, reported flat profits for last year.
在二月初，法国奢侈品生产帝国路易·威登·轩尼诗发布年报，显示出其去年利润平平。
Before he was a year old, the infant Albert lost his father, an early settler in French Algeria, in the battle of the Marne.
加缪的父亲是法属阿尔及利亚的侨民，加缪还不满一岁时，父亲就在马恩战役中阵亡。
French 10-year yields have come under pressure, rising to 3.46 per cent, a 38 basis point increase since the start of the week.
近日法国10年期国债收益率面临上行压力，已升至3.46%，自周一以来已上升38个基点。
French companies shed the most jobs in 40 years during the fourth quarter of last year.
去年第四季度，法国公司进行了40年来最大规模的裁员。
Depending on the weather, Fournier, a 64-year-old retired French army officer, will attempt what he is calling Le Grand Saut (The Great Leap) on Sunday from the plains of northern Saskatchewan.
如果天气允许，弗尔涅，这个64岁的退役法国陆军军官，将在本周日萨斯喀彻温省北部平原上尝试这次壮举，这一举动也被他本人称为“伟大的一跃”。
In 1999-2009 France's share of EU exports shrank while Germany's grew; last year the Dutch exported more than the French.
在1999至2009十年间，法国所占的欧盟出口份额下降，而德国所占的份额却上升了；就在去年，荷兰人的出口已经超过了法国。
But despite a high fertility rate, the French population continued to age, with over 65 year-olds making up 16.3 percent of the total, compared to 15 percent in 1994.
尽管生育率较高，但法国的老龄化趋势仍在继续，去年65岁以上人口占总人口数量的16.3%，而1994年为15%。
The French Riviera is suffering, too: Nice airport reported a drop of 8% in passengers during the first half of the year.
法国里维·埃拉的旅游业也不景气，今年上半年尼斯机场就损失了8%的游客。
“We all felt the plane was arriving very, very quickly on the tarmac,” 28-year-old Virginie Giroux, one of the French passengers said.
28岁的法国乘客维尔吉尼·吉鲁说：“我们都感觉到飞机疾速地落向停机坪。”
Nasri has just one year remaining on his Arsenal contract and the possibility of a move to Old Trafford has been reported in the French media this week.
纳斯里与阿森纳的合约就剩一年了，法国媒体称他“有可能”投靠曼联。
During the first five months of the year, the number of overnight stays by foreign visitors in French hotels fell by 15.5%.
今年前5个月，法国酒店的外国旅客入住人次下降了15.5%。
French arrived as the official language of England in 1066 but it was almost the year 1300 before beef has its first citation as an English word.
法语在1066年成为英格兰的官方语言，但是，几乎到了公元1300年，作为英语单词的beef才第一次有了书面引证。
The rejection of the proposed EU constitution by French and Dutch voters this year was the culmination of long-simmering discomfort with the goals of ever-closer-and ever-larger-union.
欧盟的目标是建立更紧密更大的联盟，而今年法国和荷兰对欧盟公宪的否决就是对这样一种发展前景所存担心的集中体现。
Earlier this year a French yacht, Le Ponant, was seized by pirates with a crew of 30 while sailing from its winter waters in the Seychelles to the Mediterranean.
今年早些时候，载有30名船员的法国游艇Le Ponant在从塞舌尔群岛冰冬水域航行至地中海时被海盗抓走。
HEC, the original French business school in Paris, with a proud 127-year history, now tops the latest Financial Times ranking of European schools, ahead of both INSEAD and LBS.
巴黎HEC商学院前身是巴黎的法国商学院，其建校已有127年之久。最新一期的《金融时报》将它列为欧洲最顶尖的商学院之一，名列isead和伦敦商学院之前。
The week-long gathering, known as the cure salée (French for salt cure), occurs every year near the oasis town of In-Gall in Niger.
人们所知道的cure salée（法语叫风趣的治疗）的聚集历时约一周，每年都会在尼日尔In-Gall城镇附近的绿洲进行。
Last year the French champagne producers shipped 35.9m bottles of champagne to the UK.
去年法国香槟生产商装运了35.9m瓶香槟到英国。
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