AHHH 2 Flashcards
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Grivois
A
Bawdy
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Ridiculiser / tourner en dérision
A
Lampoon
3
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Détourner
A
Deflect
4
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Joue un rôle important
A
is / are instrumental in
5
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While
A
Pendant que / tandis que
Aussi longtemps que (so long as)
Même si / bien que (althought)
Alors que
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Un élément de base
A
Staple
7
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Therefore
A
Donc
Par conséquent
7
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Whose
A
A qui
Dont
De qui
7
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Sentimentalisme
A
Emotionalism
7
Q
Pamoison / évanouissement
A
Swoon
8
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Irréfutablement
A
Unassailably
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Un tâtonnement
A
Dabbling
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Tronc
A
Trunk
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Lieu central
A
Locus
12
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Se rappeler, se souvenir
A
To recollect
13
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Souterrain
A
Subterraneous
14
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Voûte / chambre des coffres
A
Vault
15
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Hôtel (religieux)
A
Altar
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Héritage
A
Estate
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“reculer devant”, “fuir devant” ; sinon : “rétrécir”, “se dérober”, “se contracter”
A
To shrink
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Contraindre / forcer
A
To compel
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Courage
Force d’âme
A
Fortitude
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Pénombre
A
Dimness
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Trembler
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To shudder
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les draps de maison
linen
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en aval du courant
downriver
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Le roman qui caractérise le gothique
Horace Walpole, whose The Castle of Otranto (1764)
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Eléments du gothique
1/ Setting in a castle.
2/ An atmosphere of mystery and suspense.
3/ An ancient prophecy (connected to the castle or its inhabitants)
3/ Omens, portents, visions…
4/ Supernatural or inexplicable events.
5/ High, overwhelming emotions.
6/ Women in distress.
7/ Women threatened by a powerful, impulsive, tyrannical male.
8/ Metaphor of gloom and horror: howling wind ,footsteps approaching, lights in abandoned rooms, characters trapped in a room, ruins, thunder and lightning, rain, sighs, moans, howls, eerie sounds, clanking chains, doors suddenly slamming, crazed laughter, barking of distant dogs (or wolves?)…
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Morne, gris
Dreary
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Regarder, contempler
To behold
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Travail
Toil
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carreau
pane
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faible lueur, miroitement
glimmer
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insipide
dull
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membre
limb
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misérable
wretch
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s'efforcer de faire qqchose
To endeavour
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brun gris
dun
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flétrir
Shrivelled
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Se volatiliser
To vanish
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teinte, nuance
hue
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linceul, suaire
shroud
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rosée
dew
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volet
shutter
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machoire
jaw
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marmoner
to mutter
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renverser
overthrow
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mauvais
bad (immoral)
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bad synonymo
base, corrupt, criminal, delinquent, evil, iniquitous, mean, reprobate, sinful, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wrong
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maléfique
baleful (adj. Menacing)
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baleful synonymo
calamitous, deadly, dire, evil, foreboding, harmful, hurtful, injurious, malevolent, malignant, noxious, ominous, pernicious, ruinous, sinister, threatening, venomous, vindictive, woeful
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funeste fatal
baneful (adj. ruinous, injurious)
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synonymo baneful
deleterious, destructive, disastrous, fatal, malefic, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous
