There is no exactly equivalent French tense to the present perfect tense in English.

法语里没有和英语中的现在完成时完全对应的时态。

Japanese differs greatly from French in pronunciation.

语音和法语大相同。

I retained a few French words and phrases.

我记住了几个法语单词和短语。

Her French is improving by leaps and bounds.

她的法语进步非常快。

The word for “book” is masculine in French.

book这个字在法语里是阳性词。

French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.

法语同于英语, 所有的名词都有性。

Canadian French is different from the language of metropolitan France.

加拿大的法语与法国本土的法语相同。

French is a sister language of Spanish.

法语是西牙语的姐妹语。

You need to furbish up your French before you go to France.

去法国以前你必须把法语温习一下。

English has a close affinity to French.

英语同法语很相近。

Her poor French often lead to misunderstandings when she visits France.

她的法语很差劲，因而她访问法国时常引起误会。

She speaks fluent though not very correct French.

"她的法语虽然讲得太准确,但很流利。"

Italian has a close affinity to French.

意大利语和法语很相似。

He applied himself diligently to learning French.

他地学法语。

Johnny is getting on like a house on fire in French.

约翰尼的法语进步十分快。

Names like "life water" have continued to be the inspiration for the names of several types of beverages, like Gaelic whisky , Scandinavian akvavit , French eaux-de-vie and possibly vodka .

名称，如“生命水”继续得到灵感的姓名，几种类型的饮料，如盖尔 威士忌 ， 斯堪的纳维亚 akvavit ， 法语 eaux -德- VIE和可能的伏特加酒 。

But the French, who had similar folk dances, associated the English word "country" with their term "contre" ("against") to produce the name " contredanse " for the longways "type".

在法国也有相似的舞蹈，法语单词“面对面”与英语单词“乡村”相似，因而产生了那种英国式的“面对面”的列队舞。

The uvular r's of French and the fricative, glottal ch's of German (and Scots) are essential to one's imagination of these languages and their speakers.

人们一听到法语的小舌音、摩擦音，或者德语（和苏格兰语）的喉音，就会对语言本身和语言的使用者产生各种想象。

North American tribal customs feature “two-spirit” people who combined male and female attributes (anthropologists call these “berdache”, from a French word for catamite).

北美部落习俗中将有男女特性的人称为“双灵魂”（人类学家称之为“berdache”从法语借来的词，意指双体人）。

There was neither coarseness nor want of shadowing in a countenance that was exquisitely regular and dignified, and surpassingly beautiful.

仔细一看，原来是些法语作文，字体写得特别细密，而且非常整洁，清楚。