WordReference English-French Dictionary © 2025:
Principales traductions |
ballotté adj | (agité en divers sens) | tossed around, thrown around v past p + adv |
| (UK) | tossed about v past p + adv |
| À force d'être ballottée comme ça, la cargaison va bien finir par passer par-dessus bord ! |
| Getting tossed about like that, the cargo will end up overboard! |
ballotté adj | figuré (tiraillé) (figurative) | shunted v past p |
| (figurative) | shunted back and forth, shunted to and fro v past p + adv |
| (figurative) | torn, pulled v past p |
| Ballotté entre deux candidats, Félix ne sait pas lequel choisir. |
| Torn (or: pulled) between two candidates, Felix doesn't know which one to choose. |
WordReference English-French Dictionary © 2025:
Principales traductions |
ballotter⇒ vtr | (balancer en tous sens) | toss [sth] about, toss [sth] around vtr + adv |
| Le navire était ballotté par les flots furieux. |
| The boat was tossed about by almighty waves. |
ballotter vtr | (tirailler) | shunt⇒ vtr |
| | shunt [sb] around vtr + adv |
| Les enfants de parents divorcés sont souvent ballottés d'une famille à l'autre. Ils ballottaient les gamins d'une ville à l'autre. |
| The children of divorced parents are often shunted from one family to another. |
| They shunted the kids around from one town to the next. |