ancre à jet

Jeter l'ancre

Anchor

C'est comme jeter une ancre à un homme qui se noie.

It is like throwing an anchor to a drowning man.

Il avait à peine jeté l’ancre que deux jonques firent leur apparition, se dirigeant vers Inchon.

Athabaskan weighed anchor at nightfall and moved inshore to patrol near Inchon.

Mais, comme les matelots cherchaient à s`échapper du navire, et mettaient la chaloupe à la mer sous prétexte de jeter les ancres de la proue,

And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship,

En 1981, Marvin Gaye, le géant de la soul music, jeta l'ancre à Ostende, ville de bord de mer en Belgique. L'auteur fait ici le recit de l'aventure surréaliste de la star américaine égarée au pays des moules-frites et de Jacques Brel.

In 1981, Marvin Gaye, the giant of soul music, lay anchor in Ostend, a little town located on the Belgian coast. He was brought there by Freddy, his friend from Ostend, who ran a small run-down family hotel near the sea-front...