Translation of "Battant" in English

Si vous apportez plus d'air en battant

If you bring in more air by beating

Le cœur battant, elle ouvrit la porte.

With her heart pounding, she opened the door.

Les oiseaux volent en battant des ailes.

The birds fly by flapping their wings.

D'autres offensives, battant Bélisaire à Callinicum et assiégé Martyropolis.

further offensives, defeating Belisarius at Callinicum and laying siege to Martyropolis.

Il est étonnant de constater que les Iraniens, auxquels les Arabes ont imposé l'Islam en les battant militairement, sont devenus ses plus zélés adeptes au point d'opprimer ceux du Zoroastrisme, qui est pourtant la religion de leurs propres pères. Une sorte de syndrome de Stockholm à l'échelle nationale.

It is astonishing to witness that the Iranians, onto whom the Arabs imposed Islam through military defeat, have become its most zealous followers to the point of oppressing those of Zoroastrianism, though it is the religion of their own fathers. A kind of Stockholm syndrome on the national scale.