Donna Leon Flashcards
Run off, flee, scarper
Déguerpir
Unhealthy, unwholesome, inf. ‘sick’, morbid
Malsain
Money pit ( something draining money), have hollow legs ( eats a lot, everything)
Gouffre m
Un gouffre financier
Superior (boss) n
Of approval, approving adj
Approbateur
Monk, hermit
Puffin (bird)
Moine
Cassock, priesthood
Soutane f
Coffin, casket
Cercueil m
Say one by one
To remove seeds ( fr melon fex)
Égrener
Le ministre égrène le nom des victimes.
Duty, chore, drudgery, fatigue
Corvée f
Les corvées du ménage
Faith, belief
Foi f
Believers
Les croyants
What can i do for you?
Que puis-je faire pour toi?
In an hour
À dans une heure
Affix v
Apposer
Crumple, crumple up v
Bouchonner
Herd, flock, gaggle (and fig as well)
Troupeau
Un troupeau de touristes
His homephone number
Le numéro de son domicile
Wake n
Sillage m
Swallow, gulp down
Take in, learn
Ingurgiter
Whatever, although, however, even though, even if
Quoique
Excess + abuse, misuse n
Abus m
Abus d’alcool/confiance/pouvoir
Pick pocketing
Vol à la tire
Pigheadeness, stubborness n
Entêtement
m
Interrogation, questioning
Interpellation f
Chopping board
La planche à decouper
Peler et couper l’oignon
By way of
En guise ( de réponse )
Out of the blue
Brûle-pourpoint
Chatty, talkative, chatterbox
Indiscreet gossiping
Long winded, rambling, berbose
Bavard adj
Peu bavarde de nature
Chest of drawers n
Easy going, convenient, handy, practical
Commode f
Waist size, waist measurement
Low cut
Tour de taille f
Taille basse
Built for, cut out for, suited for
Taillé f
Beat wildly, furiously
Battre la chamade
The bottom cupboard
Le placard du bas
Se penchent pour prendre une poêl dans le placard du bas
Bag snatching
Vol à l’arraché
Pester sb, be bored (stiff)
Faire suer qqn
Suer, sweat, ooze, drip
Openly adv
Ouvertement
Upper, lower lip
Le lèvre supérieur/ inférieur
Praise n
Louange f
Keep records of, keep on file
Do
Dump
Ficher
Thick bushy
Épais -se
Oily
Huileux -eise
Dent v
Cabosser
Wealth, affluence
Ease, poise
Aisance f
Jumper, sweater
Chandail m
Display, sport, wear
Arborer
Deferred adj
Remis
Remettre,put back, switch back on, add, add more, fill up
Laugh at, take the mickey / piss out of
Se ficher de
Slam, crack (whip), slap, smack
Claquer
Claquer la porte
Shove, dig, poke n
Bourrade f
Angry, irate
Courroucé -e adj
Support, hold up, maintain, insist
Soutenir
Se soutenir support, help one another
Racket, row, commotion, uproar
Raffut m
Sit again
Se rasseoir
Backstage, runner (on curtain),
Coulisse f
Coulisse de qqc behind the scenes of (sth)
Trigger, cause, set off
Déclencher
Armrest,
Accoudoir m
Stay away from, show no interest in, give the cold shoulder
Bouder
Mistake, error, misunderstanding
Méprise f
Scammer, shark, conman
Strapping, strong, lively
Gaillard
Mon gaillard mate, buddy, pal
Dressing gown, bathrobe
Robe de chambre écossaise (tartan)
Truce, rest, break
Trêve f
Bland, flavourless, tasteless
Insipide
Oath, pledge, promise, swearing
Serment m
Labyrinth, maze, mess, complexity
Dédale m
Instinctively, w/o thinking, automatically
Machinalement
Collar
Pass, saddle (mtn)
Col m
Le col de son manteau
Break the neck
Se rompre le cou
Chore, drudgery, duty
Corvée f
A coffee break, snack break
Un arrêt casse-croûte
Drizzle rain) n
Crachin m
Pull the plug, break up, put a stop end to
Mettre un terme
Due date, deadline, delivery date
Échéance f
Régler l’échéance d’un emprunt
Maternity leave
Congé de maternité m
Suveillance camera
La caméra de surveillance
Condemnation, censure
Condamnation f
Fatal, lethal, deadly adj
Mortel -le
Ringing, jingling
Tintement
Cuff, bannet, headline
Manchette f
Bouton de manchette cuff link m
Plunder, pillage, steal, get away with
Piller
Nomadic, wandering, drifting, stray (animal)
Errant adj
Twart, stymie, oppose, foil
Contrecarrer
Relief, respite n
Soulagement m
Commit a crime
Commettre un crime
It was his duty to give witness
Il était de son devoir de témoigner contre le criminel en question.
À témoigner contre qqn
The country’s social fabric
Le tissu social du pays
A pack of dogs
La meute de chiens
Meute f pack, horde, scouts cub-pack
Crush, grind
Fiddle with, play with
Triturer
Il triturait son mouchoir
Blindly push on, bulldoze ahead, dive in head first
Foncer bille en tête
Object to do sth
Rechigner
Rechigner à faire qqc do sth grudgingly
Wander, roam
Vagabonder
Thug, crook
Malfrat m
In the flesh, in person, meet face to face
En chair et en os
Absolve, cleanse, forgive
Délier
Se délier to get out of (an obligation), come undone
Me lacets se sont délies.
Paediatrician
Pédiatre
A new-born
Un nouveau-né
Hymn, carol
Cantique m
Two days later, the day after tomorrow
Surlendemain m
Garbage collector
Éboueur m.
No, not really
Non, pas vraiment
Interfere, meddle in others business, affairs
Se mêler de qqc
Se mêler des affaires des autres
Mix, blend, combine, mix up, confuse
Mêler
Se mêler à qqn mingle with sb
Declin, founder, go down with, fall’into
Sombrer
Il a sombré dans l’alcoolisme …..decline into
Misty, foggy, hazy
Brumeux. -se
Sleepiness, doze, lethargy, fading n
Assoupissement m
Apres le diner Pierre est pris d’un leger ass…
Crazy, mad, loopy, madman
Cinglé
Foolhardedness, rashness n
Témérité f
Coolness, collectedness n
Relaxation
Décontraction f
Toothless +fig
Edenté -e
Foreman, supervisor
Contremaître
Charade, display
Parade f
Saucer
Surcoupe f
Hairy
Velu
Plus velu hairier
Whinger, complainer n
Always complaining adj
Râleur -euse
He fought an urge to yawn
Il a du réprimer une envie de bâiller
Wrongly, mistakenly
À tort
À tort ou à raison rightly or wrongly
Talk nonsense, say whatever comes into yr head
Parler à tort et à travers
Sub Machine gun
Mitraillette f
Throw out, show sb the door
Flanquer qqn à la porte
In turns, by turn
Tour à tour
Hint n
Make a reference to, allude to
Allusion f
Faire allusion à
To turn around, make a u turn
Faire demi-tour
Il fit demi-tour et se dirigea vers le lit
For heavens sake
Pour l’amour du ciel!
Quarrel, fight,mayhem trouble, scrap, spar
Grabuge m
Lease, tenure
Bail m
Fury, rage
Furie f
Run into, bump into, collide with
Heurter
Ink
Encre f
Touched, stirred, filled w emotion adj
Ému -e
blackmail
Chantage m
Faire du chantage à qqn
Chabtage affectif emotional blackmail, guilt trip
Grudgingly, unwillingly, reluctanrly
À contrecoeur adv
Rib
Côte f
Cage thoracique f rib cage
The virtue of patience
La vertu de la patience
Sample, cross section
Échantillon m
Generosity, goodness, kindness
Bonté f
Bonté divine! Goodness gracious me!
Indisputable, unquestionable
Irrécusable adj
Lightning, thunderbolt
Foudre m
Cover, front cover (paper, book)
Blanket, bedcovers
Coverage
Couverture f
Hungry, greedy, voracious asj
Avide
Etre avide de
Avide de savoir keen to learn
Skilful, clever, capable
Habile adj
Bastard
Salopard m
Packed, full to capacity adj
Last straw, limit
Attic, loft
Comble adj and nm
Powerful, strong, vigorous, energetic
Puissant adj
HIV positive
Séropositif m
Vandalise, ransack, trash
Saccager
Saccage nm vandalising
He was still there
Il était toujours là
Shipwreck, collapse n
Shipwrecked adj
Naufrage m
Naufragé
On est naufragé en plein désert.
Brand new
Flambant neuf
Lime, lime tree
Tilleul m
Embezzelment, misappropriation
Malversation
Blindness and deafness
De cecité et de surdité
Interrogation, questioning, appeal
Interpellation f
Connection
Branchement
Shine, gleam, radiant, burning, blazing
Flambant
Scorn, contempt, disregard n
Mépris m
Concern, consideration
Care attention
Job task (first) aid
Soin m
DNA
D’ADN
Make no secret of
Faire mystère de
The elder, elderly, senior person, former
Ancien
Ce ministre est un ancien avocat. …a former lawyer
Il faut prendre soin de ses anciens. We have to take care of our older people.
Sip v
Siroter
He is with a class mate to do his marhs
Il est chez un camarade de classe pour travailler ses maths.
Have a nice day
Je vous souhaite le bonjour
Pigeon
Pigeon m
Stammer, mumble, stutter, falter
Bafouiller
Child pornogrhy
Pornographique enfantine
Rent n
Loyer m
Single file
File indienne
Crew neck
Encolure ras du du cou
(Animal) neck, collar, collar size
Encolure f
Timing n
Minutage m
Overcoat, coat
Pardessus m
Par-dessus prep over, above, on top of + over sb´s head
Hawk, falcon
Faucon m
To guide
Cornaquer
Politeness, manners, etiquette
Bienséance f
Rain forest
La forêt pluviale
And rain as an adj
Damage, injury, harm
Dégâts mpl
Greed
Avidité f
Shelf
Étagère f
Fee, around, grope for
Tâtonner
Switch n
Interrupteur m
Scratch, scuff, abrasion
Éraflure f
Crowbar
Pied -de-biche m
Pl pieds-de-biche
Having put the clock back
Avoir retardé l’heure
Politically correct
Politiquement correct
Glass, wine glass
Ball, balloon
Ballon m
Reunion
Retrouvailles fpl
Clearly, obviously
Manifestement
At theexpense of sb
Aux dépense de qqn
Appetizer
Small talk
Amuse-gueule m
Octopus
Poulpe m
In the middle of the night
En plein nuit
Pale- dull, drab, solemn
Blême
Imply, hint
Sous-entendre
Supplies, sundries, office supplies (stationery)
Fourniture f
Training, education
Setting up
Formation f
Coat hanger, hanger
Arch
Cintre m
Cintré adj inf nuts, balmy, loony+ belted (clothes) + curved, roundex
Jumper, sweater, pullover
Chandail m
Overall, coat (doctors f ex), smock, blouse
Blouse f
Thief
Chapardeur m
Reliability, trustworthiness
Fiabilité f
Pig, glutton
Goinfre l
Se goinfre de qqc binge, gorge, stuff yr self on something
Goinfrer pig out, binge, gorg
Punishment, penalty
Châtiment m
Sensual, lustful
Lascif adj
Ridicule, scorn v
Bafouer
Small bottle, hip flask, flask, vial
Fiole f
Cup, small dish
Coupelle f
Syringe
Seringue f
Shove, poke n
Bourrade f
Crime, offence
Délit m Délit d'initié insider trading Délit de fuite Hit and run offence Flagrant délit in the act, red handed Prendre en flagrant délit catch sb in the act' red handed
