Charles Baudelaire Flashcards

Les Fleurs du mal

1
Q

/Chaque jour vers l’Enfer nous descendons d’un pas/

A

/Each day we’re one step further into Hell/

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2
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/Sans horreur, à travers des ténèbres qui puent./

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/Content, to move across the stinking pit./

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3
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/Serré, fourmillant, comme un million d’helminthes/

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/Close, swarming, like a million writhing worms/

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4
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/Dans nos cerveaux ribote un peuple de Démons/

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/A demon nation riots in our brains/

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5
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/Le canevas banal de nos piteux destins/

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/The banal canvas of our woeful fates/

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6
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/Dans la ménagerie infâme de nos vices/

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/In the infamous menagerie of vice/

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7
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/Il ferait volontiers de la terre un débris/

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/He willingly would devastate the earth/

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8
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/Et dans un bâillement avalerait le monde/

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/And in one yawning swallow all the world/

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9
Q

/Je sais que la douleur est la noblesse unique/

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/I know that [man’s] sorrow is a solitary nobleness/

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10
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/cauchemar plein de choses inconnues/

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/a nightmare full of things unspeakable/

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11
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/triste hôpital tout rempli de murmures/

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/sad hospital full of strange whispering/

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12
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/C’est pour les cœurs mortels un divin opium!/

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/An opium divine for hungry mortals’ hearts/

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13
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/Comme les sons nombreux des syllables antiques/

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/With varied sounds of ancient syllables/

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