flotter

Nous n'étions pas sur le sol, nous flottions.
We were not on the ground; we were floating.
La meilleure façon dont je puisse décrire cela, c’est que nous flottions juste au dessus du sol.
The best way I can describe it was that we were floating a bare space above the ground.
Nous flottions au milieu de corps gigantesques, bleuâtres sur le dos, blanchâtres sous le ventre, et tout bossués d'énormes protubérances.
We were floating in the midst of gigantic bodies, bluish on the back, whitish on the belly, and all deformed by enormous protuberances.
A trois cents mètres environ, ainsi que l'avait prévu le capitaine Nemo, nous flottions sous la surface ondulée de la banquise.
About 300 meters down, just as Captain Nemo had predicted, we cruised beneath the undulating surface of the Ice Bank.
Nous avons également senti comme si nous flottions dans l’air alors que nous nous promenions et que tous les objets autour de nous semblaient flotter aussi.
We also felt as if we were floating on air as we walked around and that all the objects around us seemed to be floating as well.
J'ai recueilli cette friandise pendant que mon mari et moi flottions au-dessus des montagnes dans une gondole en osier, écoutant le choeur d'écorcement qui nous a suivis de même 3.000 pieds dans l'air.
I gathered this tidbit as my husband and I floated over the mountains in a wicker gondola, listening to the barking chorus that followed us even 3,000 feet into the air.
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