percer

Lorsque sa musique a fait son entrée dans les charts, les Slovènes étaient étonnés d’apprendre qu’un de leurs compatriotes avait percé aux States.
When his music first started hitting the charts, Slovenians were surprised to hear they had one of their fellow countrymen making it big in the States.
En quelques mots seulement pour faire l'éloge de la perfection du Royal County Down, Golf Magazine avait percé le secret d'un parcours de golf parfait.
In one sentence, eulogising the perfection of Royal County Down, Golf Magazine had cracked the secret to a perfect links course.
Le président LINCOLN qui avait percé le jeu refusa, en 1862 et 1863, de leur payer les intérêts qui s'élevaient à des sommes colossales.
However, president LINCOLN which had bored the play refused, in 1862 and 1863, to pay them the interests which rose with colossal sums.
« Quelques instants plus tôt, le soleil avait percé victorieusement l'épaisse couche de nuages qui l'avait caché, pour briller clairement et intensément.
The sun, a few moments before, had broken through the thick layer of clouds which hid it, and shone clearly and intensely.
J’allai m’asseoir sur le haut de la chapelle, à l’abri d’un figuier qui avait percé la voûte, et j’interrogeai ces grandes pierres mutilées.
I sat on top of the chapel, behind a fig tree that had pierced the roof, and I asked these large stones mutilated.
Ce qui avait percé devant nous dans la révolution était une note qui n'était pas, bien sûr, une contradiction, mais nouvelle, rude, et un peu assourdissante.
There had broken in upon us in the revolution a note that was not, to be sure, a contradiction, but that was novel, harsh, and somewhat deafening.
Et ce fut pour Iui comme si une épée lui avait Percé Ie coeur.
For him, it was like a sword through his heart.
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