For the 1992 Winter Games, French organizers constructed a new motorway, parking lots and runs for skiing in the Alps.

为了1992年冬季奥运会，法国组织者在阿尔卑斯山建造了一条新的高速公路、停车场和滑雪跑道。

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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。

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When French soldiers were stranded outside Rome one winter in the 16th century, they lay on the city's dunghills to soak up warmth from the fermenting matter.

在16世纪的一个冬天，当法国士兵被困在罗马城外时，他们躺在这座城市的粪堆上，靠它们的发酵取暖。

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For their part, the squatters hope to take advantage of a French law preventing authorities from evicting tenants during the winter months.

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Collaborations in recent years with avant-garde designers such as Bernhard Willhelm and Damir Doma, as well as a more recent partnership with luxury French winter sportswear label Moncler, have helped to cement the label's reputation in the fashion world.

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I.s on the German-French border in the winter of 1944 is the tense jeopardy of military service.

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The central point made by Mr Lieven's witty and impeccably scholarly book is that Russia owed its victory not to the courage of its national spirit or to the coldness of the 1812 winter, as some French sources have argued, but to its military excellence, superior cavalry, the high standards of Russia's diplomatic and intelligence services and the quality of its European elite.

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