pencher

Il n'était pas sûr de quel côté tu penchais.
He wasn't sure which way you'd jump.
Je me penchais vers le précipice.
I was leaning forward towards the abyss.
Alors tu penchais pour le "non" ?
So you're leaning toward "no"?
Je penchais plutôt pour le Mexique.
Well, I was actually thinking Mexico.
Je penchais à gauche.
Keep it on the left.
Dans les salles de douches, tu te penchais très bas au-dessus du lavabo, tu prenais la douche du fond et tu te tournais vers le mur.
In the shower-room you would bend low over the basin, take the shower at the back and turn to face the wall.
En tant que jeune écolière, alors que je me penchais au-dessus de ces pages vierges, j'ai commencé à me débarrasser des sentiments que je devais ressentir.
As that young schoolgirl, when I leaned into those blank pages, I started to do away with feelings of what I should be experiencing.
Plus je me penchais sur la question, plus je me suis posé la question de savoir pourquoi les gens restaient en dehors de la politique.
The deeper I got into the issue, the more I asked myself why people stayed out of politics' (Image: © Davide Weber)
Nous savons donc que ces oiseaux sont très intelligents, mais plus je me penchais sur ce cas, plus je me rendais compte qu'ils se sont adaptés de façon encore plus significative.
So we know that these crows are really smart, but the more I dug into this, the more I found that they actually have an even more significant adaptation.
La semaine dernière, je me penchais sur le cas d'une entreprise de ma circonscription, une entreprise produisant les nouveaux matériaux dont nous avons besoin : la société de fusion sous vide de Hanau, près de Francfort.
Last week I looked at an enterprise in my constituency, a sound enterprise, an enterprise producing the new materials we need: the vacuum melting company in Hanau, near Frankfurt.
Par exemple, que ferais-tu si je me penchais ici comme ça ?
For example, what would you do if I were to lean way over like this?
Je penchais à gauche.
Kept leaning to the left.
Je penchais à gauche.
Stay to the left.
Quand il était petit, je me penchais sur son berceau, en pleine journée, pour vérifier qu'il était bien mort.
I remember when he was a baby, I'd sneak up to his crib in the middle of the day to make sure he was still not breathing.
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