17/09/13

Question 0

se sentir assiégé

Answer 0

to feel besieged

Question 1

des invités de dernière minute

Answer 1

last-minute guests

Question 2

se pencher sur

Answer 2

to bend over

Question 3

aucun ne s’était nommé

Answer 3

none have given their name

Question 4

un intermède

Answer 4

a lull

Question 5

souffler qqch à qqn

Answer 5

to whisper

Question 6

dispenser qqn de répondre

Answer 6

to let someone off the hook

Question 7

pousser la porte

Answer 7

to push the door open

Question 8

une enjambée

Answer 8

a stride

Question 9

le palais de justice

Answer 9

the court-house

Question 10

s’affaisser, s’enfoncer

Answer 10

to sag

prices have sagged

Question 11

d’une certaine manière

Answer 11

somehow

Question 12

squelettique

Answer 12

bony

Question 13

flétrir

Answer 13

to wilt

Question 14

une sieste

Answer 14

a nap

Question 15

soft

Answer 15

mou

Question 16

en ce temps là

Answer 16

then

people moved slowly then

Question 17

traîner des pieds

Answer 17

to shuffle

Question 18

rien ne presse

Answer 18

there is no hurry

Question 19

apprivoiser

Answer 19

to tame

Question 20

Pensez-vous qu’une souris blanche soit un animal sauvage

Answer 20

Would you consider a white mouse a wild animal ?

Question 21

Si elle n’a pas eu ou n’a eu que très peu de contacts avec l’homme

Answer 21

if it has had little or no contact with man

Question 22

lorsque j’étais enfant

Answer 22

as a child

Question 23

une mouche

Answer 23

a fly

Question 24

être attaché

Answer 24

to be hitched to

Question 25

étouffant

Answer 25

sweltering

Question 26

l’ombre de qqch

Answer 26

the shade

Question 27

raide

Answer 27

stiff