En General Flashcards
Diner avec qqun
To have dinner with SB / to dinner
Parking
A parking lot/ car park
Avoir honte de qqun
To be ashamed of sb
Aperitif
Appetizers,drinks
Un tabouret
A stool
Impensable
The unthinkable
Gonflé
Bloated
Bodly
Courageusement
Se plaindre
Se plaine/ se lamenter
To whinge
To lament
Le petit matin
The early hours
Une mise en garde
A warning
La degringolade
The tumbling
Plonger
To plunge/ to dip
La Manche
The Channel
Un avant gout
A taste
Des recettes d’impots
Tax receipts
Un depart precepité
A flounce out
Le redecoupage
A redrawing
Diviser
To split
Nuisible
Harmful
Se demarquer
To stand out
A court terme
In the short run
L’OTAN
NATO
Des tranches
A chunk
To amount to
Representer
Le FMI
The Imf
Une requete
An entreaty
Une effusion
An outpouring
To spurn
Rejeter
Les depenses
Spending
Etre esclave a
In thrail to
En consequence
Accordingly
Fleurir
To thrive
Reduire
To curb
Un resultat
An outcome
Manquer de qqch
To be short of
Agriculture
Farming
Main d’oeuvre
Labour
Le batiment
The building race
Solder/liquider
To sell out
Perdre contact avec qqun
To lose touch with
Accuser
To blame
Red tape
Des formalités
Numerique
Digital
Reglementation
Regulation
La campagne
Countryside
Miroiter (scintiller,briller)
Sparkle,gleam
Reverbere
Street lamp
Rare
Rare,uncommon,unusual
Banquette arriere
The rear seat
Impliquer
Imply,involve
La Méditerranée
mediterranean
Croiser qqun
To run into sb,to bump into sb
Rassembler
To gather
Valise
Suitcase
Trousseau de clé
Bunch of keys
S’assurer de qqh
To make sure of smth
Un porteur
A bellshop
Dechirer
To rip
Saisir
To grab smth
Un paquet
A wad
Jeter un oeil
To glance
Menton
A chin
Griffes
Claws
Un tas/une pile
A stack
Fuir qqun
To flee sb
Ouvrir la porte a qqun
To open the door to
Durer
To last
Bondir
To jump
Exploser (chiffre)
To surge, to boom, to soar, to skyrocket
Se faire comprendre
To make yourself understood
Regretter de faire qqch
To regret doing sth
Donner qqch a qqun
To give sb sth
Accorder qqch a qqun
To grant sb sth
Bien que
Although
Il va sans dire
Needlees to say / it goes without saying
Régulièrement
Steadily
Legerement
Slightly
Fortement
Sharply
Notamment
For instance
Desormais
Henceworth
En matiere de ..
Regarding.. Ou in terms of
Au sein de ..
Among ..
Prendre des news de qqun
To hear from sb
Entendre que
To hear for sth
Etre reconnaissant
To be grateful
Les responsables
The officials
Taper des pieds
To bang feet
Autoroute
Highway/motorway
Les occidentaux
The Westerns
Un refuge
A refuge
Radicalement
Dramatically
Un cessez le feu
A Cease-fire
Un cadre
A manager
Le rez de chaussée
The ground floor
L’ancien président
The former president
Gastronomique
Gourmet
Une salle de sport
A gym
Un groupe
A group/ a cluster
Attentivement
Intently
Etre affalé/vautré
He sprawled on sth
Finalement
Eventually
Un logiciel
A software
Lancer
To launch
Stocker
To store
Numeriser
To scan
To be shrouded
Qqcho de couvert
etre couvert de neige
Repenser
To recall
To think again
A la reflexion
On reflexion
On seconds thoughts
Accoster (une rive)
To land on the side
Solitaire
Lone
Pele-mele
Pell-mell
Haphazardly
Un trousseau de clefs
A bunch of keys
Entrer en trombe/ se precipiter
To burst through
S’appuyer contre qqch
To lean against sth
Etre essouflé
To be panting
Etre trempé
To be soaked
Se refugier ( dans un endroit)
To retreat to sth
Le portier/ le groom
A bellHop
Un paquet
A wad
To glance
Jeter in oeil
Triple menton
A trible menton