Expression 06/11 Flashcards
Se mettre en route
Get going
She had better get going right now, hadn’t she ?
Ce qui aurait pu se produire/ mais qui ne s’est pas produit
What might have happened/ but didn’t
Hard to know what might have happened yesterday but in fact didn’t
Formule de politesse
Vous voulez bien ?
Will you ?
Please kindly account FOR your past mistakes, will you ?
Une nature morte ( en peinture)
Still life
Pluie diluvienne/ torrentielle
3
Downpour
Heavy rains
Torrential rains
Etre abattu
3
Be downbeat
Be downcast
Be desponded
Tendance
Propension a qch
A streak of
Fendre, separer
To split
Deraper
Glisser
2
To skid
To glide
Un stage ( en entreprise) 3
An internship
A training session
A traineeship
Une grande majoritee
( emploi formel)
2
A great many (0) nom Very many (0) nom
A great many people don’t agree
En attente
Imminent
Pendant
Pending
Un pull
A sweater
Briller
Luire
scintiller
Glisten
Provenir de
2
Profit BY/ FROM
Finir par
2
To end IN/ WITH
Avoir un don
2
Avoir le don des langues
A bent, a gift
To have a bent for languages
Suivre son penchant
To follow one s bent
Descendre dans un hotel
Put UP at a hotel
It was to late that we decided to put UP at the next hotel
Etre confronte a un problème
Be UP against a probleme
Do you realise how serious a problem we are up against ?
Annuler qch
Call off sth
After that terrible quarrel they called off their wedding
Commencer par qch/ faire qch
Begin BY sth/ v-ing
May I begin by pointing out how relevant what you have juste suggested is
Un abri, une cabane, une remise
A shed
Prendre soin de
3
See TO sb/sth
Take care OF sb/sth
Look after sb/sth
That shed looks old. Will you please see to it ?
Reflechir a qch
Think sth OVER
She can’t give you an answer before she has thought it OVER very carefully
Supporter qch
Put UP with sb/sth
Bear/ stand sb/sth
I can’t put UP with so much noise
D’autant plus que..
All the more + adj + AS/ SINCE/ BECAUSE
it was all the more interesting AS I had read about it in the paper
Ah ! Si seulement il savait . Expression du souhait
Ah ! Si seulement il avait su. Expression du regret
He wished he knew =if only he knew
Valeur d’irreelle du preterit
He wished he had known = if only he had known
He wished he knew which way to go
A peine
4
Hardly
Barely
Scarcely
No sooner
Adv negatifs
En vue de
Etant donné
2
With a view TO
IN view OF = considering
These measure were adopted with a view TO curbing inflation
Endiguer
2
Stem
Curb
Curbing inglation
Etre accoutumé à
Etre habitué à
2
Be accustomed to + v ing
Be used to + v ing
Etre tres fortement certain
To be bound to bv
