Chapitre 8: Divertissement Flashcards

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Fidèle/infidèle (à)

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Faithful/unfaithful (to)

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Grossier (-ière)

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Vulgar

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Une allumette

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Match

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Un amant

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Lover

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Un annuaire

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Phone book

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Blague

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Joke

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Une chagrin d’amour

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Broken heart

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Un contrôleur fiscal

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Tax auditor

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Un éditeur, une éditrice

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Publisher

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Une équipe

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Team

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Un(e) invité(e)

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Guest

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Une maitresse

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Lover

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Une maquette

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Model

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La mi-temps

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Half-time

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Un passe-temps

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Hobby

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Un portable

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Cell phone

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Un producteur, une productrice

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Producer

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Un répondeur

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Answering machine

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Un romancier, une romancière

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Novelist

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Une scène de ménage

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Marital dispute

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Un tableau

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Painting

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Aggraver

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To make worse

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Annuler

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To cancel

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Appeler (voir appeler)

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To call

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Avoir le trac

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To be nervous, to have stage fright

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Avoir pitié (de)

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To feel pity (for)

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Collectionner

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To collect

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Composer un numéro

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To dial a number

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Construire (comme conduire)

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To build

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Décrocher

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To pick up the phone

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Déranger (comme voyager)

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To bother

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Empêcher quelqu’un de faire quelque chose

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To prevent someone from doing something

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Enlever (comme acheter)

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To remove

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Éprouver (de la tristesse, de la compassion, etc.)

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To feel (sadness, compassion, etc.), to have an emotion

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Fabriquer

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To build

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Faire pitié

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To be pitiful

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Faire une bêtise

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To do something wrong

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Faire une collection (de + nom)

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To collect

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39
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Inviter quelqu’un à faire quelque chose

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To invite someone to do something

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Plaisanter

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To joke

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Prendre (irreg.) quelqu’un un pour quelqu’un d’autre

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To mistake someone for someone else

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Prendre (irreg.) quelqu’un pour un imbécile

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To consider someone stupid

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Raccrocher (au nez de quelqu’un)

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To hang up on someone

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Rappeler (comme appeler)

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To call back

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Remonter le moral à quelqu’un

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To cheer someone up

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Répéter (comme préférer)

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To rehearse; to repeat

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Ressentir (de la tristesse, de la compassion, etc.) (comme partir)

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To feel (sadness, compassion)

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Se faire mal (au dos)

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To hurt oneself (one’s back)

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Se faire passer pour quelqu’un

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To pass oneself off as someone

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Se moquer (de)

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To make fun (of)

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Se régaler

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To have a good time; to enjoy one’s food

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Se retourner contre quelqu’un (pour une situation)

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To backfire

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Se tromper

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To make a mistake

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Se tromper (de + nom)

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To make a mistake (to be mistaken about)

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Se tromper de numéro de téléphone

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To dial the wrong number

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Soutenir (comme tenir)

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To support (someone or something); to withstand, to bear (a situation)

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Tromper

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To cheat on; to betray

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Venger quelqu’un (comme voyager)

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To avenge someone

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Se venger

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To take one’s revenge

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Condescendant(e)

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Condescending

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Au lieu de + nom/ + infinitif

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Instead of + noun/+ verb + -ing

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De la part de quelqu’un

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For someone else, on behalf of

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Ça (ne) me (te, le, la, etc.) regarde (pas).

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It’s (none of) my (your, his, her, etc.) business.

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En route!

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Let’s go!

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Je meurs de faim.

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I’m starving.

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Qu’est-ce qu’il/elle est + adjectif!

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He/She is so…! What a…!

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Qu’est-ce qu’il est bête!

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What a dummy!

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Qui est à l’appareil?

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Who’s calling?

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Sans blague!

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No kidding!

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Un bibelot

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Knick-knack

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Un boomerang

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Boomerang

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La colle

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Glue

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Une devise

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Motto

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Un haut-parleur

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Loudspeaker

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Une louche

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Ladle

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Avoir le fou rire

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To have the giggles

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Faire boomerang, avoir un effet boomerang

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To have a boomerang effect, to backfire

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Chiant(e)

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Boring, a drag

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Con(ne)

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Idiot(e), imbecile (nom et adjectif)

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Épatant(e)

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Fantastique, super

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Un boute-en-train

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The life of the party

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Un(e) crac

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Une personne très intelligente

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Une garçonnière

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Bachelor pad

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Une pauvre type

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Poor guy (someone you feel sorry for)

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De la piquette

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Du vin de mauvaise qualité, qui pique (burns) quand on le boit

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C’est bien fait pour toi (lui, etc.)!

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Serves you (him, etc.) right!

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C’est pas une lumière

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He/she’s not very bright

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Décrocher (un prix, la palme)

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Gagner

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Draguer

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To pursue, to pickup

90
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Envoyer quelqu’un sur les roses

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To tell someone to buzz off

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J’en peux plus.

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I’ve had it. (I can’t take it anymore.)

92
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Je peux plus le (la, etc.) voir.

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I can’t stand him (her, etc.) anymore.

93
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Piquer

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Voler (To steal)

94
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Se faire un tour de reins

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To hurt one’s back

95
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Se payer la tête de quelqu’un (voir payer)

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Se moquer de quelqu’un