abstrus

Nous devons trouver la force et la capacité de relancer une voie européenne pour susciter un regain d'enthousiasme et d'émotion chez les citoyens qui perçoivent encore l'Union comme quelque chose de distant et d'assez abstrus.
We must find the strength and skill to relaunch a European path that must revive the enthusiasm and emotion of citizens, who still perceive the EU as something distant and rather abstruse.
Le texte est rédigé dans un langage abstrus, difficile à comprendre.
The text is written in an abstruse language, which is difficult to understand.
Les livres qui traitent de sujets abstrus ont peu de lecteurs.
Books dealing with recondite subjects have few readers.
Le mot du jour est « abstrus ». Sais-tu ce que cela signifie ?
The word of the day is "abstruso." Do you know what it means?
Et surtout, il conduit le courant sans danger et docilement, dans les coins les plus abstrus.
And above all it conducts electricity reliably and willingly round the most abstruse corners.
Ce genre de charabia stupide est aussi abstrus pour le citoyen européen ordinaire qu'un texte en vieux sanskrit.
This sort of mindless gobbledegook means as much to the ordinary citizen of Europe as a text in ancient Sanskrit.
Nous approuvons donc l'échange d'opinions ouvert mais nous opposons à la censure et aux mécanismes de contrôle abstrus.
We therefore say 'Yes' to an open exchange of opinions, but 'No' to mistrust and abstruse control procedures.
Il pourra sembler quelque peu abstrus au début, mais j'espère qu'en y pénétrant nous parviendrons à voir clairement tout ce qu'il comporte, car notre existence entière est un processus d'action.
This may be rather abstruse and difficult at the beginning but I hope that by thinking it over we shall be able to see the issue clearly, because our whole existence, our whole life, is a process of action.
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