French translation of 'as if'

Her voice sounded as if she had just been waiting for a chance to let off steam.

Americans have just found a way of talking about failure as if it were success.

The City is treating the stock as if profits are about to crash.

Though it looks as if most of us could be caught out in this trap.

No one disturbed him, and he did what he liked with his plot, which soon looked as if a series of small earthquakes had stirred it up.

He talks about a diet as if it were an odd modern conspiracy.

It just felt as if any other successful, overworked comedian could have thought up the jokes.

Not long ago it looked as if England would soon disappear under decking.

Or they stand and stare as if she's just stepped out of a flying saucer carrying a tub of their favourite ice cream.

Sadly, you soon feel as if you are being taken on a forced march through the world's largest museum of anthropology.

Sometimes he would clutch at my hand as we parted as if about to confide something.

They also have a pale stripe below the eye, and in a good light look as if they are wearing spectacles.

To live not as if you have all the time in the world, but as if it will soon slip from your grasp.

You lean in slightly, as if you're about to power forward.

He stared at Steel for a good two minutes as if getting the measure of this man to whom he had entrusted his future.

England had talked about that game as if it was their World Cup final.

It looks, though, as if his time in the sun will be short.

Instead we talked about the future as if it were arriving at any minute.

As if that good news did not suffice, it seems that he has also passed the other big test, at doping control.

He did sound, though, as if he was announcing a manifesto.

He looked very formal - as if he'd just finished work.

Instead, her nose lifts high and left, as if she has just walked behind a bin lorry.

It sounds as if it is just time to move on.

It was always unnerving listening to humans talk about them as if they knew it all.

It was just as if they were behind me in the room, saying all the things they used to say.

People used to talk about the show as if all the cast were members of their own family.

So far it looks as if there will be a good harvest this year.

The flowers grow in dense, drooping sprays along the narrow branches and twigs, and the whole tree soon looks as if it is under snow.

The others, though, look as if they are just coming to the boil.

She was presented, though, as if she was.

When darkness moved in from noon till three, it was as if the good earth itself had become ashamed of him.