Coraline Flashcards by Andy Brewer | Brainscape

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ébauche

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draft

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de fieffés

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Qui possède au plus haut degré un défaut, un vice
=> fini parfait

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ce sont de fieffés menteurs

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they are all trained liars

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la mégère vous en veut de m’avoir déniché

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the shrew’s mad at you for finding me out

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la mégère

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the shrew

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la bille

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the marble, the ball

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le faisceau

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the beam (of light)

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le faisceau de sa torche

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the beam from her flashlight

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la scène vermoulue

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the worm-eaten stage

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tourbillonnante

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swirling

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s’était accroupi(e)

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crouched down

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toiser

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looking over

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la toiser

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looking down on her

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grisâtres

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grayish

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comme l’avare aime l’argent

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like a miser loves money

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l’avare

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miser

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cuivre

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copper

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une baignoire en fonte

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A cast-iron bathtub

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en fonte

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cast-iron

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dans le trou béant

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in the gaping hole

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l’argile

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the clay

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détrompée

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soggy

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au rabat

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on the flap

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béton

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concrete

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le ciment

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cement

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sa bouche édentée

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his toothless mouth

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blafard

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pale

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le paillasson

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the doormat

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le vieux toqué

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the old fart

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appétissante

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appetizing

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éraillée

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hoarse

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mansardées

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attics

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le pieuvre

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octopus

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le chuchotis

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the whisper

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et malgré les plaies et bosses

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and despite the bumps and bruises

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les plaies

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wounds

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se hérisser

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bristle

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un hérisson de ramoneur

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a chimney sweeps brush

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un animal nuisible

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a pest animal

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le chat noir était tapi dans un coin

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the black cat was lurking in a corner
Syn: rôdant

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lui donna de petits coups de langue râpeuse comme du papier de verre

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he gave her little strokes of his sandpaper-rough tongue

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sur l’écorce fissurée du hêtre

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on the cracked bark of the beech tree

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un hêtre

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a beech (tree)

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de temps en temps, je m’ennuie de toi

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from time to time I miss you

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à jabot

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with ruffle

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une chemise blanche à jabot

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a white shirt with ruffles

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il ajouta une truite entière

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he adds a whole trout

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Une truite

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a trout

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des ailes de papillon poudreuses

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powdery butterfly wings

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un gros tas de fleurs de chèvre feuille

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a big pile of honey suckle flowers

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délectation

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delight

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le minois

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the face

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quel joli minois !

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quel joli visage jeune et plein de charme

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Le petit garçon lui étreignit la main

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the little boy embraced her hand

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sa mâchoire

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her jaw

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des ongles écarlates

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scarlet nails

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des œufs de roitelet

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wren eggs

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le sentier

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trail

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Je ne vois pas la moindre anicroche

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I can’t see any hitch

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ses paupières battirent derrière ses verres épais

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her eyelids fluttered behind her thick glasses

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sur des roulettes

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on wheels

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était allé se tapir sous le fauteuil

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had gone to crouch under the armchair

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une fouine

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a weasel

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elle effleura la clef noire

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she brushed against the black key

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effleurer

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to graze; to brush; to skim; to touch lightly on

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échafauder des plans

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drawing up plans

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cogiter

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to think

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un cognée

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an axe

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emprunta un chemin désaffecté

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took an unused path

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désaffecter

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to decommission

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la margelle d’un puits

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the curbstone of a well

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la plaie ne semble pas infectée

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the wound does not seem infected

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la plaie

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the wound

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mon bout de chou qui se tortille

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my squirming little darling

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je te donnerai de la bouillie

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I’ll give you some porridge

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des bisous et des câlins

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some kisses and hugs

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mais des toasts aux cancrelats

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but some toast with cockroaches

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Ça c’est sûr t’en auras pas

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that’s for sure you won’t get any

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cancrelats

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cockroaches

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et se mit à gigoter d’un air béat

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and began to fidget with a blissful air

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béat

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smug, complacent, quiet

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la tiédeur

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the lukewarmness