"Petit" -- p-e-t-i-t comes from the French word for small.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

This data comes half from the Italian league, which is pretty good and half from the French league, which sucks.

这些数据一半来自强队意大利队,一半来自弱队法国队

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

From the French point of view, it's the perfidious Albion already there.

法国人则认为他们是背信弃义的英国佬

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

It comes from the French expressions "venez m'aider." or "m'aidez."

VOA: special.2010.04.18

He's from the French Department.

他就是法语系的

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Luge comes from the French word for sled.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

"Do you think anyone can govern innocently," Saint-Just the phrase taken of course from Saint-Just, one of the leaders of the Jacobin Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.

你认为有人能够清白无辜地进行统治吗“,当然这句话出自，法国大革命期间雅各宾恐怖统治集团中的,一位领导者。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

That has prompted a call from the French government for these universities to institute new admissions procedures favoring underprivileged students.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

You could think of these as two companies producing bottled water and now we're going to get hundreds of letters saying not all bottled waters are the same, especially from Italians and the French, but never mind. Let's just pretend that they are.

把他们想象成两家瓶装水厂商吧,我估计我们会收到数百封信件,告诉我说不是所有瓶装水都是一样的,尤其是从意大利和法国寄过来的那些,无所谓了,就把它们想象成是同质的吧

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

William the Conqueror led it. The Normans were a French-speaking people from Normandy in the north of France.

VOA: special.2011.01.05

And this person looked at me and said, "Well the maid was from Dijon." And another time, somebody's French was very good and I said, "Why is your French so good?"

然后这哥们看着我说,"我们家保姆是第戎的",还有一次,也有个人法语特好我就问,你法语怎么这么好

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

The French chemist Nicolas Leblanc discovered how to make soda ash from salt in the late eighteenth century.

VOA: special.2011.03.09

The armies that they were opposing, the French armies, were largely staffed by peasants from conservative areas, or from National Guards brought in from towns like Vannes, And, so, the commune--it's somewhat semi-proletarian, they're mostly working people.

他们所对抗的军队,也就是法国的军队,大部分是由保守郊区的农民,或是从诸如瓦纳,埃夫勒,所以,这些公社,有点半无产阶级的感觉,大部分都是有工作的人们

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

During the nineteenth century, new neighborhoods expanded out from what is now known as the French Quarter.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

A question from the teacher. Susanna Wesson writes: "I teach English to French students of engineering who benefit very much from your Foreign Student Series.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

He said the president ate French food from gold and silver dishes.

VOA: special.2009.01.22

Other people say the stories about him came from French Canada.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

In 2004,the French government adopted a law banning Muslim girls from wearing headscarves to schools.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30

The debate comes amid controversy over banning minarets in neighboring Switzerland and as the French government considers whether to ban Muslim women from wearing a face-covering veil in public.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

Former French leader, General Charles de Gaulle, had withdrawn from the military command in the 1960s, concerned that France would lose its military independence to rising superpower, the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

(Choral music) The two European leaders listened to a French army choir sang the Marseillaise and then the German anthem, marking a French-German friendship that grew from the ashes of the two world wars.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

"We wanted to raise the bar a bit and right from the way in which we recruited the communications staff, to my own commitment to French, we've tried to build a communications team that is fluently bilingual.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

The report was commissioned by the French government. The report recommends shifting the ways policymakers look at progress from what economists call gross domestic product,or GDP, which is a general measure of goods and services produced in a country.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14