cesser

Il était effectivement heure de changer notre monde pour que l’humanité cessât de transmettre à la génération prochaine toutes les influences négatives héritées de l’histoire passée.
It was indeed time to change our world so that human kind would stop handing over to the coming generations all the negative influences derived from past history.
Aucune chose ne fut déterminée par avance de façon que l’on cessât de voir la réalité si l’on se considérât soi même pleinement connaisseuse d’une chose ou autre ; le temps fut arrêté dans le passé.
Nothing was determined in advance so one would fail to see the reality if one considered oneself fully knowledgeable of one thing or another; time was stopped in the past.
Tandis que je me tenais debout en attendant que cessât la pluie, un CD de M. Idaki Shin fut joué et l’espace d’alentour parut complètement renouvelé.
While I stood waiting for the rain to stop, a CD by Mr. Idaki Shin was played and the surrounding space looked completely renewed.
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