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Quelque chose de l'Italie couve toujours dans cet endroit silencieux.
Something of Italy still broods in this quiet place.
Elle a mon âge, mais elle me couve comme une mère poule.
She's my age, but she incubates me like a mother hen.
Hey, ne couve pas le garçon, okay ?
Hey, just don't coddle the boy, okay?
Je veux dire, ça fait 10 ans que ça couve.
I mean, it's pretty much been coming for ten years.
Cette tentative d’émancipation couve depuis longtemps désormais.
This attempt at emancipation has been brewing for a long time now.
Solitaire, il couve sur sa colline.
Solitary, it broods upon its hill.
Si on la couve, elle ne partira jamais.
If you coddle her now, she'll never move out.
Ouais, c'est juste une grippe que je couve.
Yeah, it's just a flu going around.
Non, mais je crois que je couve un truc.
No, but I have been feeling a little sick lately.
Je pense qu'il couve quelque chose.
I think he might be coming down with something.
Sous la surface de l’ordre et de la stabilité bourgeoise une guerre civile couve.
Beneath the surface of bourgeois order and stability a civil war is brewing.
Je crois que je couve quelque chose.
I think I might be coming down with something.
L'énorme mécontentement qui couve, dans la société américaine, se cristalliserait sur cette question.
The enormous discontent that runs deep in US society would coalesce on this issue.
Vous devez savoir que je le couve, car je l'aime.
I want you to know I smothered him because I love him.
Il me couve comme une mère.
He's like a mother to me.
C'est pour ça que je te couve.
That's why I fuss over you so much.
Il me couve comme une mère.
She's like a mother to me.
Je crois qu'elle couve quelque chose.
I think she's got something.
C'est, hum, ça couve depuis longtemps.
It's, um, it's a long time coming.
Je crois que je couve une grippe.
I think I'll catch the flu.
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