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Les parois musculaires de l'appendice contractent et expulsent cette nourriture.
The muscular walls of the appendix contract and expel this food.
Botox relaxe les muscles afin qu’ils ne se contractent plus.
Botox relaxes the muscles so they do not contract.
Au moins un demi-million d’enfants contractent la tuberculose chaque année.
At least half a million children become ill with tuberculosis each year.
Aux États-Unis, les adultes contractent deux à quatre rhumes par an.
Adults in the US experience two to four colds per year.
Les poutres apparentes et blanches contractent avec le sol revêtu de tomettes.
Exposed beams and white contract with the ground covered with tiles.
Aujourd'hui, beaucoup d'hommes et de femmes contractent librement mariage.
Many men and women now enter freely into marriage.
Certains hommes contractent plusieurs emprunts pour pouvoir épouser plusieurs femmes.
Men take a number of loans to procure several wives.
Les astringents sont des agents qui contractent ou rétrécissent la peau.
Astringents are agents that cause the skin to contract or get smaller.
C’est pourquoi votre corps et vos muscles se contractent quand vous avez peur.
Therefore your body and your muscles become tense when you are afraid.
Entre temps, les muscles de l'abdomen se contractent.
Meanwhile, muscles in your abdomen become tight.
Toutefois, en Europe également, des personnes contractent ce virus chaque jour.
But in Europe as well people are infected with the virus daily.
C'est ce qui se passe pour ceux qui contractent le virus.
This is what happens to everyone in the world who contracts the virus.
Pour deux personnes qui commencent une thérapie antirétrovirale, cinq autres contractent l'infection.
For every two people who initiate antiretroviral therapy, five become newly infected.
De nombreux étudiants contractent des prêts bancaires pour financer leurs études supérieures.
Many people take out private loans to facilitate higher education.
Lorsque vous arrêtez d'en prendre, ces vaisseaux se contractent en causant des migraines.
When caffeine is withdrawn, these blood vessels constrict, causing headaches.
Les juges contractent eux-mêmes une assurance maladie.
Judges will be responsible for their own health insurance.
Et... si jamais ils le contractent, ils changent.
And when they catch it, they change.
Les cellules se contractent pour se diviser, mais elles restent figées dans cette position.
The cells round up for division, but they're very static in that position.
Quand les muscles se contractent, ils tirent sur les tendons qui font déplacer les os.
When muscles contract, they pull on the tendons which cause the bones to move.
La méfiance des consommateurs grandit et les marchés agricoles se contractent.
The lack of consumer confidence is spreading and the agricultural markets are battening down the hatches.
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