A Philosophy Of Walking ( Frederic Gros) Flashcards
On the verge of
En
On the edge of
Au bord de la route
Fr
Accotement
Verge of road
E
Strip
(Of grass, beside road)
Take on airs
E
Haughty manner
To fret ( human)
E
To worry
Se tracasser
F
S’inquiéter
To fret along ( water)
To flow
( in small waves)
Sth frets sth
E
Erode
Barge ( general)
E
Boat
( long, flat)
Une Barge ( general)
F
Péniche f
Napoleon’s imperial barge is decorated with a crown and cherubim.
Barge
E
Ornemental boat
Bateau de cérémonie
F
Canot d’apparat
The warship won’t depart until after the officers arrive on their barge.
Barge
E
Officer’s boat
A fabric ( is abrasive)
To —-
E
Chafe
Chafe ( hand on hand, feet)
E
Warm ( by rubbing)
Frictionner ( mains, …)
F
Frotter
Sb chafes sb
E
Irritate
Irritate by rubbing
To—-
Distance running is fun, but it makes me ——.
Chafe
champ at the bit,
chafe at the bit,
chomp at the bit v expr (horse)
E
chew restraint
Le ( Partie de bride ) se place dans la bouche du cheval et on y attache les rênes.
F
mors
champ at the bit,
chafe at the bit,
chomp at the bit v expr (person)
E
Be impatient
champ at the bit,
chafe at the bit,
chomp at the bit v expr (person)
F
Piaffer d’impatience
smitten adj
Cattle smitten by the disease had to be put down.
2 e
(affected, afflicted)
Smitten
Smitten teenagers often imagine that life won
’
t get better.
E
In love
Épris
Fr
Amoureux
Have a binge
E
Eating spree
Enchaîner les beuveries
F
Enchaîner les soûleries
S’empiffrer de
F
Manger abondamment
To cavort
The friends cavorted and enjoyed each other’s company at the party.
E 2
To frolic,
Make merry
Ébattre
F
Se détendre et gesticuler
Sale gosse
Syn
Sale morveux
Sea urchin
E
Spiky round sea creature
Street urchin
E
Street child
Esp homeless
Turnstile
The farmer installed a turnstile in the fence so he could easily pass through where the cattle could not.
Device for crossing febce
Pour accéder au métro, il faut passer par un tourniquet.
Tourniquet
F
appareil pivotant
Pall
Mark put some roses on the pall.
E
Coffin n at funeral
Pall
Matt removed the pall from the coffin
E
Cloth covering coffin
To ——
The immobility ( is tiresome)
E
Palls
Make sth gloomy
E
Phv
Cast a pall over
To inure (by sth bad)
E
Accustom to
The wild pig dug through the leaf litter looking for mushrooms.
leaf litter
Layer of leaves
The cat littered already, the kittens are almost ready to open their eyes.
To litter
Give birth
Clothes and papers littered the floor of the office.
To litter
f
Des vêtements et des papiers jonchaient le sol du bureau.
Many people smoked the poppy in the nineteenth century.
Opium
In the UK, people buy poppies and wear them in memory of the soldiers who died in the two World Wars.
Poppy uk
Paper poppies for remembrance day
The defendant’s mental state was considered an extenuation of his crime.
Extenuation e
Excuse or justification
Attenuation
Le maquillage permet l’atténuation des cernes sous les yeux.
F
Réduction
The saddle should sit just behind the withers.
animal’s shoulders,
back
(horse, elk)
Tom knew he had made a stupid comment when the professor, instead of answering, merely withered him with a look.
To wither 2
Humiliate
Abash
The intense heat from the sun withered the delicate seedlings.
Cause to shrivel
Polio can cause the limbs to wither.
Wither 2
Atrophy
Shrink
It was a difficult climb with all the scree along the slope.
Scree
Loose rocks on a slope
Scree slope
F
Un éboulis
A barouche
E
Carriage
(Horse-drawn)
A barouche
F
Une calèche
Lisa’s father is a bearish man, but he loves her very much.
Bearish
Pessimist
(Downward) stock market
Bearish
A feeling of lassitude swept the city because of the humid summer.
Lassitude
E
Lethargy
Lassitude
F
Langueur
If we were naughty as children, we knew to expect a clout round the ear.
Clout
Blow
Petits, si nous n’étions pas sages, nous étions sûrs de nous prendre un coup.
un coup
F
Une baffe
The director’s opinion carries a lot of clout.
clout
influence.
She clouted him round the head for being so rude.
To clout
Strike with the hand
Clout n
Uk
Cloth
Chiffon
2f
Torchon
Tissu
Consumer clout
Consumer power
Duenna
E
Female chaperone
Duenna
F
Une duègne
The boss considers himself too important to pick up his own dry-cleaning, so he gets one of his flunkies to do it for him.
Flunkey
Assistant ( doing menial work)
Skinflint
E
Miserly person
Avare
F
Radin
The woman pulled her hair into a bun and secured it with two ——.
U-shaped pin for fastening the hair
Hairpin
The cargo shifted as the truck went around a hairpin bend.
E hairpin
U turn bend
Le cargo se décala comme le camion arrivait en épingle à cheveux.
Virage très serré
Dustin’s wry humor makes his stories a delight to read.
Wry
Witty ( ironic)
Smile at sth witty
Wry smile
Wry smile
E
Smile at sth witty
This city is filled with louche clubs and bars.
Louche
E 2
Dissolute
Debauched
Louche
F
Dissolu
The collision gouged a big hole in the car door.
Gouged e 2
Dig
Scoop
Outil de fer,
fait en forme de demi-canal,
avec un manche de bois,
à l’usage des sculpteurs, des plombiers, des menuisiers, des charpentiers.
2° Tranchet courbe pour creuser les talons des souliers, utilisés par les cordonniers
Gouge f
The staff looked resplendent in their perfectly white uniforms.
Resplendent 2
Magnificent
Glorious
Tittle-tattle
E
Gossip
Nul n’est à l’abri des cancans
Cancan
Commérage
There was a sudden hubbub in the train station, and no one could hear the announcement.
Hubbub 2
Commotion
Disturbance
Il y a eu un brouhaha soudain dans la gare et personne n’a pu entendre l’annonce.
Brouhaha
Vacarme
( Vain, fashionable man )
——-s in Georgian England wore huge powdered wigs.
E
Fops
Il y a beaucoup de —— dans ce café.
Homme qui affecte une grande élégance dans sa tenue vestimentaire, ses comportements, ses idées.
Dandy
Russet color
E
Reddish brown
Russet color
F
Brun roux
Brun roux
F
Roussâtre
Homo viator
E F
Travelling man
Homme voyageur
The liver, spleen, pancreas, stomach and even the heart and lungs; these are the human ——-.
E
entrails
Foie, rate, pancréas, estomac et même cœur et poumons, voilà les —- humaines.
F
Entrailles
The steady gush of water from the fire hydrant flooded the street.
Gush
E
Flow
( in strong fast stream)
The soldiers were sent on a sally.
Sally
E
charge
A sudden
Out of a place
Surrounded by the enemy
The farmer grafted a plum branch into an apple tree.
2
Insert
Transplant
The surgeon used a graft to repair the patient’s aorta.
E
Transplant of tissue
The surgeon used a graft to repair the patient’s aorta.
F
Greffe
Mon poirier a des greffons de différents arbres fruitiers.
Greffes
l’insertion sur une plante (porte-greffe) d’une pousse prise sur une autre (greffon) dont on désire développer les caractères ;
The government charged the politician with graft.
Graft
Bribery
Or other corrupt measures
Working on a building site is hard graft, and dangerous too.
Graft
Hard work
Although the city allowed carrying guns, many businesses proscribed them.
E 2
Banish
Ban
La prohibition avait proscrit l’alcool.
Proscrire
Interdire l’usage
The school encourages heuristic learning.
Heuristic
E
Through discovery
The school encourages heuristic learning.
Heuristic
F
Heuristique
The students used heuristic techniques to solve the problem.
Heuristic
E
Trial and error
The plants were wilting due to the lack of rain.
Wilt
Syn e
Wither
Ralphie finally got his revenge when he clobbered the school bully.
Clobber
E
Beat
Il a été (roué de coups ) par des voyous
——
F
Tabasser
Ursula propped the spade against the wall while she put the plant into the hole she had just dug.
Prop
Lean
For support
The crew made sure all the props were in position before filming started.
Prop
Accessories
“What position do you play?” “I’m a prop.”
Prop ( rugby)
F
« Tu joues à quel poste ? » « Je suis pilier. »
Props to your mum for taking that amazing picture of us all.
Props
F
Respect
Since his divorce, Sam has been using alcohol as a prop.
Prop
Support
The helicopter is currently grounded due to a damaged prop.
E
Rotor blade
Hélice de hélicoptère
F
Lame de roteur
caler [qch])
Le déménageur a calé le meuble avec une petite planche.
immobiliser
botanique
prop root,
brace root
External supporting root
The (Bridle mouthpiece) is placed in the horse’s mouth and the reins are attached to it.
Bit
Bit
Se goinfrer
F syn
S’empiffrer de
Cavaler
F
Va le rattraper, tu cavales plus vite que moi !
Courir
(Annoying impolite child )
Rodney’s niece is such a——- she never cleans her room and is allowed to do anything she wants.
Brat
Au restaurant de la plage nous mangeons des huîtres et des oursins.
Oursin
Fruit de mer noir et piquant
Litière de chat
Couche protectrice
The streets were filled with litter because the waste management workers were on strike.
Litter
Trash
( in street)
Les rues étaient couvertes de détritus parce que les éboueurs étaient en grève.
Détritus 2
Déchèts
Ordures
I changed the litter in the cat’s tray.
Litter
Gravel
( for cats waste)
Ben littered because he didn’t see a trash can to throw his garbage into.
To litter
Throw trash
The wounded man was carried to the doctor in a litter.
Litter
Stretcher
Un brancard
Une civière
Le cochon sauvage creusait la litière dans l’espoir de trouver des champignons.
Litière
Couche de feuilles
Poppy flower
F
Coquelicot
Le coquelicot
Syn
Pavot
La selle devrait être placée tout juste derrière le garrot.
Garrot
hauteur d’épaule.
Les pivoines fanent dans le vase.
Faner
Flétrir
Personne
au service d une autre
Domestique
La femme s’est tiré les cheveux en arrière et a fait tenir le chignon avec deux ——-.
Petite tige métallique et recourbée , pointue à une extrémité et terminée à l’autre par une tête, pour attacher, fixer, maintenir les cheveux
Épingle à cheveux
Resplendissant
Syn
Éclatant
A chisel with a concave blade
A —— ( tool)
A Gouge
Écoulement
Déversement
Les échasses sont très pratiques pour marcher dans les marais.
-échasse nf
Def
bâton
(long
à étrier)
The manuscript contained a number of———.
(book, manuscript: gap)
lacunae
Le manuscrit contenait un certain nombre de —-.
(trou dans un texte)
Lacunes
It was common in medieval times to pour boiling oil onto an invading enemy from the ——.
A parapet at the top of a wall for firing from
Battlement
A low protective wall along the edge of a roof, bridge or balcony
——
Parapet
Il était courant au Moyen Âge de verser de l’huile bouillante sur les envahisseurs ennemis depuis les ——.
Levée de terre ou forte muraille entourant un château fort ou une ville fortifiée
Rempart
Un —— empêche les visiteurs de tomber dans le ravin.
Le —— d’un pont.
Mur à hauteur d’appui, pour servir de garde-fou, d’abri
Le ———- protège les défenseurs des tirs des assaillants.
Ouvrage défensif
Parapet
Cover thinly with gold
The artist carefully —-ed the rim of the vase.
To gild
L’artiste a soigneusement —- le bord du vase.
Recouvrir d’or
Doré
(Wealthy and privileged) youth
Gilded
I love the sound of the wind ——ing in the trees.
Make a moaning, whistling, or rushing sound
To sough
Murmurer doucement
J’adore le son du vent qui ——- dans les arbres.
Susurrer
Pleasurable inactivity
Languor
Dans ce paysage paradisiaque, on se sent touché d’une douce ——-.
Mélancolie douce et rêveuse
Langueur
Abattement physique ou moral, qui se manifeste par un manque d’énergie, de dynamisme
Langueur
Assemblage de barreaux fermant une ouverture ou établissant une séparation :
Les —-s des fenêtres de la banque.
La —— du parloir d’un couvent.
Grille
Clôture métallique plus ou moins ouvragée : barrière, portail
La —- du jardin est ouverte
Grille
A grating or screen metal bars or wires
Grille
having a sullen and gloomy disposition
Morose
- Empreint de tristesse :
Il est d’humeur ——
- Se dit d’un secteur économique peu actif : L’agroalimentaire est —- actuellement.
Morose
Morose fr
Syn 2
maussade,
sombre
The state of being inactive and lacking in energy
F E
Torpor
any of various disorders marked by abnormal electrical discharges in the brain and typically manifested by sudden brief episodes of altered or diminished consciousness, involuntary movements, or convulsions
Epilepsy
a group of things clustered together
//a —— of bushes
2 : a compact mass
3 : a heavy tramping sound
Clump
to bind, wrap, or swaddle with or as if with a bandage
2 : ENVELOP
//a mountain ——-ed by clouds
Swathe
to wrap (an infant) with —-ing clothes
b : ENVELOP, SWATHE
//legs —-ed in bandages
Swadle
An order by a court of law stating that someone must or must not do sth.
A strong warning
Injunction
An order by a court of law stating that someone must or must not do sth.
A strong warning
Injunction
a circular or spiral arrangement of intertwined material (such as flowers or leaves)
Garland
Very eager to hear or see sth
Agog
intransitive verb
: to move with a sweep, rapidly downwards through the air
transitive verb
to gain or carry off in or as if in a —— —usually used with up
Swoop
Carry out a sudden raid
Swoop
lacking due thought or consideration :
CASUAL, HEEDLESS
//—- unconcern
//a —- disregard for the rights of others
2 : of a happy lighthearted character or disposition
//a —— spirit
//—- enjoyment
Blithe
conforming to a general rule or acceptable procedure :
//His proposals were generally accepted as ——-.
Canonical
Canonical
Syn
ORTHODOX
Syn
Qui est conforme aux règles ordinaires ;
qui correspond à la norme ;
normal,
régulier.
Canonique
According to the laws of the christian church
Canonical
âge minimal de quarante ans imposé aux servantes des ecclésiastiques ; fig., âge respectable.
Âge canonique
any of various leguminous shrubs
(especially genera Cytisus and Genista)
with long slender branches,
small leaves, and usually showy yellow flowers
Broom
a bundle of firm stiff twigs or fibers bound together on a long handle especially for sweeping
Broom
Genre de plante de la famille des légumineuses qui renferme divers arbrisseaux à fleurs jaunes. On y distingue le —— à balais, ou …
Genêt
I’d like to help fund the project, but unfortunately I don’t have the——.
Having the means necessary to
wherewithal
the study of literature and of disciplines relevant to literature or to language as used in literature
2 a : LINGUISTICS
especially : historical and comparative linguistics
b : the study of human speech especially as the vehicle of literature and as a field of study that sheds light on cultural history
Philology
DESCENDANT, CHILD
especially : a descendant of a wealthy, aristocratic, or influential family
Scion
HEIR
//—— of a railroad empire
Scion
a detached living portion of a plant (such as a bud or shoot) joined to a stock in grafting and usually supplying solely aerial parts to a graft
Scion
the state of being concerned and anxious
b : attentive care and protectiveness
an attitude of earnest concern or attention
//expressed——- for his health
solicitude
Soins attentifs, affectueux :
Elle est pleine de—- pour ou envers ses parents
attention affectueuse Il est plein de ——- pour elle.
1° Soin plein de souci.
Cette affaire lui cause beaucoup de ——.
sollicitude
Sollicitude
2syn f
attention, prévenance
impaired by age or dampness : MOLDY
2 : saturated with dust and stale odors : MUSTY
3 : rigidly old-fashioned or reactionary
Fusty
Fusty
F 2
Qui sent le moisi
Qui sent le renfermé
a superficial usually whitish growth produced especially on organic matter or living plants by fungi
b : a fungus producing ——
2 : a discoloration caused by fungi
Mildew
Mildew
f
Moisissure
Moisissure ( sur plantes)
F
Mildiou
a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease
also : a heavy vaporous emanation or atmosphere
//a —- of tobacco smoke
2 : an influence or atmosphere that tends to deplete or corrupt
//freed from the —— of poverty
— Sir Arthur Bryant
//the enervating —- of fear
Miasma
Miasma
Fr
Miasme
EXPOSITION,
EXPLANATION
Critical interpretation
Exegesis
interprétation de texte non clair
exégèse
to alter or corrupt (something, such as a text) by inserting new or foreign matter
b : to insert (words) into a text or into a conversation
2 : to insert between other things or parts : INTERCALATE
Interpolate
Interpolate
F
Interpoler
Interpoler
2f
Intercaler
Insérer
—— [sb]⇒ vtr (subject to a rant or reprimand)
The old woman —-ed the young man for being rude to the store clerk.
Harangue
To harangue
haranguer
to cry out loudly and unrestrainedly
//a sergeant —-ing at his troops
2 : to cry loudly : WAIL
//He lay on his bed, —-ing uncontrollably.
To bawl
To bawl
F 2
Crier
Brailler
to make the loud deep hollow sound characteristic of a bull
2 : to shout in a deep voice
transitive verb
: BAWL
//—-s the orders
To bellow
To bellow
2 f
Beuglement
Mugissement
The officer gently flipped the —— body, and found that the man was still alive.
Prostrate
Prostrate ( body)
F
À plat ventre
not to be avoided, changed, or resisted : INEVITABLE
//an —— fate
Ineluctable
Ineluctable
F
inéluctable
The imposter deceived the royal court and eventually supplanted the king.
To supplant
F
L’imposteur a trompé la cour royale et a finalement supplanté le roi
To supplant
2e
Replace
Usurp
Supplanter ( roi…)
2f
Remplcer
Usurper
The salient point in Mark’s speech was his insistence on the need for social change.
f
Le point saillant du discours de Mark était son appel au besoin de changement social.
Le point saillant du discours de Mark était son appel au besoin de changement social.
Saillant
F
Proéminent
The salient point in Mark’s speech was his insistence on the need for social change.
Salient
E
Prominent
This new evidence instantiates my theory.
Instantiate
2 syn
Exemplify
Prove
This new evidence instantiates my theory.
Cette nouvelle preuve confirme ma théorie.
a pavement constructed by spraying or pouring a tar binder over layers of crushed stone and then rolling
2 : a material of tar and aggregates mixed in a plant and shaped on the roadway
Tarmacadam
Revêtement de chaussée formé de pierres concassées et agglomérées avec du sable.
Macadam
Revêtement de chaussée:
asphalte, bitume
Goudron
Substance sombre et visqueuse, obtenue par distillation de divers produits : Du —— de houille.
Goudron
The workmen had just finished resurfacing the road with tarmac.
Les ouvriers avaient juste fini de refaire la route avec du macadam.
Tarmac ( road)
F 3
Macadam
Goudron
Bitume
Tarmac ( airport)
F
Tarmac
Matière organique naturelle ou provenant de la distillation du pétrole, utilisée notamm. pour le revêtement des routes :
Recouvrir un trottoir de ——;
asphalte, goudron
Bitume
a person having many diverse activities or responsibilities
2 : a general servant
Factotum
Factotum
F 2
~
Homme à tout faire
absolute sovereignty : AUTOCRACY
F e
Autarchy
Autarchie
Self-government
E f
Autarchy
Autarcie
A —- tax is a fixed, uniform amount of money that individuals are required to pay in order to vote in elections. Historically, —- taxes have been used in various countries, often with discriminatory intent.
Poll
Une——- est un montant fixe et uniforme que les individus doivent payer pour pouvoir voter lors des élections. Historiquement, les —— ont été utilisées dans divers pays, souvent avec une intention discriminatoire.
capitation
Mary had built up three months of arrears.
Marie avait trois mois d’arriérés.
eggs: whisk during cooking
E
Scramble
Tina cracked the eggs into the pan and scrambled them.
Tina a cassé les œufs dans la casserole et les a brouillés.
Peter scrambled the text, in case the document was intercepted.
Peter a brouillé le texte au cas où le document serait intercepté
move using hands and feet
Sam ——ed across the rocks.
Scramble
Sam scrambled across the rocks.
Scramble F
Gravir
Marcher en terrain difficile, accidenté :
Ils ont——- pour rejoindre la route.
crapahuté
The dog scrambled out of the door.
Le chien s’est précipité à l’extérieur.
When the bell rang, there was a scramble to get out of the classroom.
Lorsque la cloche a sonné, il y a eu une bousculade pour sortir de la classe.
The pilots received a signal to scramble.
Le pilote ( avion de chasse - etc) a reçu le signal pour décoller d’urgence.
The teacher scrambled the words up and asked the children to put them in the correct order.
Scramble up F
Mélanger
word scramble
F
mots mêlés
Money ( péj)
F E
Lucre
For breakfast, Mom served a platter of apple fritters and crispy bacon.
.
Pour le petit-déjeuner, Maman a servi un plat de beignets aux pommes et de bacon croustillant
Max just fritters his money on frivolous things.
Max gaspille son argent dans des choses frivoles.
Noisy laugh
E
Cackle
Shannon has a cackle that you can hear from several rooms away.
Shannon a un gloussement que l’on entend de très loin.
The birds must be fighting over something, judging by their cackle.
Les oiseaux doivent se battre à propos de quelque chose, vu leur gloussement.
caquet ( poule…)
F
Gloussement
Polly pushed a wedge under the door to hold it open.
Polly a mis une cale sous la porte pour la garder ouverte.
The stonemason drove a wedge into the block of stone to split it.
Le maçon a planté un coin dans le bloc de pierre pour le fendre.
Alan wedged the book between the others on the shelf.
Alan a enfoncé le livre entre les autres sur l’étagère.
Peter wedged the door to make sure it didn’t swing closed.
Peter a calé la porte pour s’assurer qu’elle ne se referme pas.
type of golf club
The golfer chose a —— for her next shot.
F E
wedge
Wedge of cake
F
Part de gateau
Wedge of lemon
Quartier de citron
Wedge heels
À semelles compensées
I can’t help feeling that your mother is trying to drive a wedge between us.
Je ne peux pas m’empêcher de penser que ta mère essaye de nous dresser l’un contre l’autre.
wedge issue n
F
Facteur de division
Be careful - all the roads are covered in slush.
Fais attention, toutes les routes sont couvertes de neige fondue.
romantic nonsense
E
Slush
Despite her advanced degree, she enjoys reading slush.
Malgré son diplôme de troisième cycle, elle apprécie de lire des histoires à l’eau de rose.
I could hear the gas slush in the can when I shook it.
Slush
Calopter
money: illegal politics) caisse noire nf
fonds secrets
E
Slush fund
Vein of ore
E
Lode
The miner discovered a huge lode of silver.
Le mineur a découvert un énorme filon d’argent.
Veine
Or, argent, pas minérai
F
Filon
