#6 Challenges Flashcards
Accueillir (+événement)
To play host to sth (+event) = To host an event
Intrépide, téméraire, audacieux
Intrepid (adj) = fearless, bold
La témérité, l’audace
Fearlessness = boldness
La slackine ou “slack”
Slacklining
Lâche (pour une corde par exemple)
Slack (adj): not stretched tight, loose
funambulisme
Tightrope walking
un funambule
a tightrope walker
être sur la corde raide
to walk a tightrope (to be in a difficult situation in which you do not have much freedom & need to be careful what you do)
Se différencier de, être différent de (+adj, adv, noun)
To differ from (also “differ to”)
Different (adj), differently (adv), difference (noun)
Tendu # lâche, mou
Taut (adj) (“keep the rope taut”)=stretched tightly # slack (adj)
Tendre, étirer qqch
To stretch (to pull sth so that it is tight. To make sth longer by pulling it)
Rebondir
To bounce (to move up and down)
Large # étroit
Wide # narrow
Participer à, s’adonner à
To take part in = to participate in
un flemmard, un fainéant
A slacker (a person who is lazy and avoids work)
Faire preuve de laisser-aller
To be slack (adj) (not putting enough care or energy into sth and so not doing it well enough)
Se relâcher
To get slack (to work less hard than you usually do)
Une cascade (dans un film)
A stunt (a dangerous and difficult action that sb does to entertain people, especially as part of a film)
Un cascadeur, une cascadeuse
A stuntman/a stuntwoman
un casse-cou, un risque-tout
A daredevil (a person who enjoys doing dangerous things)
Oser faire qqch / audacieux
To dare to do sth (to be brave enough to do sth) / Daring (adj & uncountable noun) (willing to do dangerous things, involving danger or taking risks)
Marcher à grands pas
To stride (strode, stridden) (to walk with long steps in a particular direction)
Faire qqch sans se laisser décontenancer
To take sth in one’s stride (GB) To take sth in stride (US) (to deal with sth difficult without letting it worry you too much)
Terminer (un marathon, une tâche…)
To complete (a marathon, a task)
La difficulté de…
The difficulty of +ing
Avoir des difficultés/problèmes pour faire qqch
To have difficulty/trouble +ing
Un exploit (personnel)
A personal achievement / a feat
un compagnon de course, un camarade (d’université)
A fellow runner / a fellow student
Continuer à / de faire qqch ( il a continué à courir malgré sa fatigue)
To go on… +ing (he went on running, in spite of his tiredness)
Une course (faire une course)
A race (to run a race)
Se rappeler/ se souvenir de..
To recall = to remember
Rappeler (au téléphone) : “rappelez-moi plus tard”
To call back (on the phone) : “call me back later”
Rappeler qqch à qq/ faire pense à qq à faire qqch
To remind someone of something / to do something
étirer (pousser, exiger le maximum d’un athlète, d’un étudiant)
To stretch (to stretch an athlete, a student)
Relever un défi
To take (took, taken) up a challenge
S’évanouir
To faint
Souffrir du décalage horaire (être souffrant du décalage horaire)
To suffer from jet lag / to be jet-lagged
le décalage horaire
The time difference
Subir une épreuve, une opération, etc
To undergo (underwent, undergone) a test, a trial, an operation, etc
Collecter de l’argent, des fonds
To raise money/funds
Lever, relever, élever, augmenter (des prix, sa voix, le bras, un enfant)
To raise (vt): prices, your voice, your arm, a child
S’élever, augmenter (pas de COD)
To rise (rose, risen) (the sun rises)
effectuer, exécuter (un test, un projet)
To carry out (a test, a project…)
Peur, crainte
Fear (noun)
Intrépide, qui n’a pas froid aux yeux # peureux, craintif
Fearless # Fearful
Craindre qq, craindre que…
To fear sb/ to fear that…
Faire peur à, effrayer
To frighten sb
La peur, l’effroi (sursauter de peur)
Fright (to jump with fright)
Effrayant/ effrayé
Frightening/ frightened
Trop sensible, petite nature
Faint-hearted
“à déconseiller aux âmes sensibles”
“not for the faint-hearted”
Confiant (sûr de soi)
Confident (self-confident) (adj)
Trop sûr de soi
Over-confident
Effrayer, faire peur à
To scare
Effrayant (familier : flippant)
Scary
Regarde la voiture ! Elle va nous dépasser malgré la limite de vitesse / bien qu’il y ait une limite de vitesse.
Look at the car ! It’s going to overtake us despite (in spite of) the speed limit / although there is a speed limit.
Quand me rendras-tu l’argent que je t’ai prêté ? - Pas de problème, je vais te rembourser tout de suite.
When will you give me back the money I lent you ? No problem, I’ll pay you back straightaway (right now).
Je me sentirai soulagé quand tu me rendras mon argent.
I’ll feel relieved when you give me my money back.
D’ici la fin de l’année (d’ici 2 ans), elle aura économisé assez d’argent pour pouvoir acheter une voiture.
By the end of the year (within 2 years), she will have saved enough money to be able to buy a car.
Quand elle aura économisé assez d’argent, elle pourra louer son propre appartement.
When she has saved enough money, she will be able to rent her own apartment/flat.
Prépositions:
Cope+ ? Busy + ? A rise+ ?
Access+ ? A grip+ ? Spend money+ ?
Cope with noun, busy Ø -ing, a rise in noun, access to noun, a grip on noun, spend money on noun
Vidéo - High wire artists (résumé)
Have been training for 2 years, Austrian (Reinhard Kleindl - economic science student) & German (Lukas Hirmler - journalist writer) - drop from the slackline to the canyon about 100meters, called “slackers”, 1st Time crossed at Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe (daredevils), safety line. 500 million cubic meters of water are carried down the Grange during the raining season
Slacklining differs from tightrope walking : the line is not taut
