French-English translations for enfers

underworldIt seems not to matter if people, women and children in particular, are paying the price by being dragged down into the underworld. Peu importe si des personnes, des femmes, des enfants paient le prix d'une descente aux enfers. The various plans for economic recovery have at best slowed down this descent into the underworld, but signs of recovery are not yet apparent. Les différents plans de relance économique ont au mieux freiné cette descente aux enfers. La relance ne se fait pas encore sentir. She is quite right when she says it was not named by accident: perhaps it was a happy accident that it was named after the God of the Underworld. Elle a raison de dire que le nom du plutonium n’est pas innocent: peut-être est-ce un accident heureux qu’il doive son nom au dieu des enfers.

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