encombrer

Ils encombraient l'hôpital.
Is he going to wake up?
Édouard a vécu avec sa mère, qui a toujours été son principal soutien, entouré de femmes et des tissus qui encombraient l’atelier de couture.
Edouard lived with his mother, his greatest supporter for her entire life, surrounded by the women and fabrics that filled her workroom.
Pour la première fois, les parisiens pouvaient profiter d'une vue de la ville depuis un pont, jusque-là cachée par les maisons et boutiques qui encombraient les ponts de Paris.
For the first time, Parisians could enjoy a view of the city from a bridge, hitherto hidden by the houses and shops that crowded the bridges of Paris.
L’ancienne école était celle de l’étude livresque, elle obligeait les gens à assimiler une masse de connaissances inutiles, superflues, sans vie, qui encombraient le cerveau et transformaient la jeune génération en bureaucrates bâtis sur le même gabarit.
The old schools provided purely book knowledge; they compelled their pupils to assimilate a mass of useless, superfluous and barren knowledge, which cluttered up the brain and turned the younger generation into bureaucrats regimented according to a single pattern.
Les meubles et les ornements encombraient la pièce.
Furniture and ornaments cluttered the room.
Des figurines en porcelaine sans valeur encombraient la cheminée.
Valueless porcelain figurines cluttered the mantelpiece.
Des files ininterrompues de véhicules encombraient le périphérique de la ville.
Continuous lines of vehicles packed the city beltway.
Une énorme quantité de locomotives et de wagons, de toute espèce, encombraient les voies et les ateliers.
The great variety in the types of locomotives and cars complicated the work of the railways and the repair-shops.
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