5 Flashcards

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Frottement

Traîner des pieds

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Shuffling

To shuffle

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Crissement, couinement, grincement

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Squeaking

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L’étendue des dégâts

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The destruction

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Faire craquer les jointures de ses doigts d’un geste sec

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To give a brisk crack of one’s knuckles

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Avoir les oreilles dressées

Tends l’oreille !

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To have the ears pricked

Prick up your ears !

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Errer, vagabonder, flâner

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To rove, To wander

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Rôder (cambrioleur par exemple)

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To lurk, to prowl (burglar)

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Décrocher le téléphone

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To grab the phone

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Se ruer à travers la pièce

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To launch oneself across the room

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Se mêler de ce qui ne nous regarde pas

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To interfere

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Ne t’imagines pas ça

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Don’t think that

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Devant le miroir

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At the mirror

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Donner deux coups de brosse

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To make two brushing strokes

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Cachant en partie

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part-concealing

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Relever les coudes

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To angle up the elbows

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Dans le but de

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To, so as to, in order to

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Émacié, décharné

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Gaunt

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Svelte, fin
Mince
Maigre
Squelettique
Gros, gras
En surpoids 
Obèse 
Obésité
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Slender 
Slim 
Thin 
Skinny 
Fat 
Overweight
Obese 
Obesity
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Un tic

Agité, fébrile

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A restless movement

Restless

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Le désarroi

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The dismay

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Avoir, prendre un air distrait
Enjoué
Niais

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To go vague
Bright
Idiotic

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Balancer les coudes nerveusement
Se redresser rapidement
Tirer d’un coup sec
Un coup sec, un mouvement brusque

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To jerk one’s elbows up and down
To jerk up
To jerk stg, to pull quickly
A jerk

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Sous l’effet de la contrariété (agacement, mécontentement), du chagrin

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In annoyance, in pain

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Rire pétillant de gaieté

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Bright bubbling laughter

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D'autant plus....que
All the more...as/since
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C'est d'autant plus facile
It's All the easier
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Salarié
A wage earner
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``` Qlq soit la personne, où que, quoi que tu fasses/aies fais Si riche qu'il soit/ fût, Bien qu'il soit riche J'ai beau faire des efforts Quoi qu'il arrive ```
Whoever, wherever, whatever you may do/may have done/might do However rich he may/might be, Rich as he may be However rich he is No matter how i've tried/However much i may try/try as I may Come what may
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Rendre des comptes a quelqu'un
To answer to someone
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Non seulement il a fait ça
Not only did he do that
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Par terre
On the floor
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Un emballage
A wrapper
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Si elle n'avait pas fait | Sí elle avait
Had she not done | Hand she done
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Toucher le chômage
To be on the dole
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Persuader quelqu'un de faire qlch Dissuader qlqun de faire qlch Menacer quelqu'un pour qu'il fasse qlch
To get sb to do stg/to talk sb into doing stg To talk sb out of doing stg To threat sb to do stg
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Informations secrètes
Classified information
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De moins en moins de femmes | D'argent
Fewer and fewer women | Less and less money (ne se compte pas)
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Grimper les échelons de l'entreprise
To climb the corporate ladder
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Les prix de l'immobilier
Property prices
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Manifester | Descendre dans les rues
To take to the streets
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Contre-attaquer
To fight back
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Opérer un patient
To operate on a patient
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Décliner une proposition
To turn down an offer
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Les plus de 60 ans | Les moins de 50 ans
The oversixties | The underfifties