Translation of "Permit" in English

Elle lui permit d'y aller seul.

She allowed him to go alone.

Sa connaissance du chinois nous permit de dérouler notre plan aisément.

His knowledge of Chinese enabled us to carry out our plan smoothly.

- Elle lui permit d'y aller seul.
- Elle l'autorisa à s'y rendre seul.

She allowed him to go alone.

Une période de beau temps nous permit de mettre la récolte à l'abri.

A spell of fine weather enabled us to get the harvest in safely.

Il voulut voir une corrida, mais son père ne lui permit pas d'y aller.

He wanted to see a bullfight, but his father wouldn't let him go.

Ferdinand Magellan fut le premier homme à traverser à la voile tous les méridiens du monde, mais la seule raison qui le lui permit, c'est que Christophe Colomb avait choisi de le faire à la nage.

The only reason why Ferdinand Magellan could claim to be the first man to sail across all of the world's meridians was because Christopher Columbus had chosen to swim.

Devant lui la déesse abaissant sa hauteur : / " Roi des vents, lui dit-elle avec un air flatteur, / vous à qui mon époux, le souverain du monde, / permit et d'apaiser et de soulever l'onde, / un peuple que je hais, et qui, malgré Junon, / ose aux champs des Latins transporter Ilion, / avec ses dieux vaincus fend les mers d'Étrurie. "

- Juno then, as a suppliant, addressed him in these words: "Aeolus (for the father of the gods has granted you authority to calm the seas and to stir them up with the winds), a race hateful to me is sailing upon the Tyrrhenian sea, carrying Troy along with its conquered gods to Italy."
- Him now Saturnia sought, and thus in lowly strain: / "O AEolus, for Jove, of human kind / and Gods the sovran Sire, hath given to thee / to lull the waves and lift them with the wind, / a hateful people, enemies to me, / their ships are steering o'er the Tuscan sea, / bearing their Troy and vanquished gods away / to Italy."