Expression 06/11

Question 0

Se mettre en route

Answer 0

Get going

She had better get going right now, hadn’t she ?

Question 1

Ce qui aurait pu se produire/ mais qui ne s’est pas produit

Answer 1

What might have happened/ but didn’t

Hard to know what might have happened yesterday but in fact didn’t

Question 2

Formule de politesse

Vous voulez bien ?

Answer 2

Will you ?

Please kindly account FOR your past mistakes, will you ?

Question 3

Une nature morte ( en peinture)

Answer 3

Still life

Question 4

Pluie diluvienne/ torrentielle

3

Answer 4

Downpour
Heavy rains
Torrential rains

Question 5

Etre abattu

3

Answer 5

Be downbeat
Be downcast
Be desponded

Question 6

Tendance

Propension a qch

Answer 6

A streak of

Question 7

Fendre, separer

Answer 7

To split

Question 8

Deraper

Glisser
2

Answer 8

To skid

To glide

Question 9

Un stage ( en entreprise)
3

Answer 9

An internship
A training session
A traineeship

Question 10

Une grande majoritee
( emploi formel)
2

Answer 10

A great many (0) nom
Very many (0) nom

A great many people don’t agree

Question 11

En attente

Imminent
Pendant

Answer 11

Pending

Question 12

Un pull

Answer 12

A sweater

Question 13

Briller
Luire
scintiller

Answer 13

Glisten

Question 14

Provenir de

2

Answer 14

Profit BY/ FROM

Question 15

Finir par

2

Answer 15

To end IN/ WITH

Question 16

Avoir un don
2
Avoir le don des langues

Answer 16

A bent, a gift

To have a bent for languages

Question 17

Suivre son penchant

Answer 17

To follow one s bent

Question 18

Descendre dans un hotel

Answer 18

Put UP at a hotel

It was to late that we decided to put UP at the next hotel

Question 19

Etre confronte a un problème

Answer 19

Be UP against a probleme

Do you realise how serious a problem we are up against ?

Question 20

Annuler qch

Answer 20

Call off sth

After that terrible quarrel they called off their wedding

Question 21

Commencer par qch/ faire qch

Answer 21

Begin BY sth/ v-ing

May I begin by pointing out how relevant what you have juste suggested is

Question 22

Un abri, une cabane, une remise

Answer 22

A shed

Question 23

Prendre soin de

3

Answer 23

See TO sb/sth
Take care OF sb/sth
Look after sb/sth

That shed looks old. Will you please see to it ?

Question 24

Reflechir a qch

Answer 24

Think sth OVER

She can’t give you an answer before she has thought it OVER very carefully

Question 25

Supporter qch

Answer 25

Put UP with sb/sth
Bear/ stand sb/sth

I can’t put UP with so much noise

Question 26

D’autant plus que..

Answer 26

All the more + adj + AS/ SINCE/ BECAUSE

it was all the more interesting AS I had read about it in the paper

Question 27

Ah ! Si seulement il savait . Expression du souhait

Ah ! Si seulement il avait su. Expression du regret

Answer 27

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

Question 28

A peine

4

Answer 28

Hardly
Barely
Scarcely
No sooner

Adv negatifs

Question 29

En vue de

Etant donné
2

Answer 29

With a view TO

IN view OF = considering

These measure were adopted with a view TO curbing inflation

Question 30

Endiguer

2

Answer 30

Stem
Curb

Curbing inglation

Question 31

Etre accoutumé à
Etre habitué à
2

Answer 31

Be accustomed to + v ing

Be used to + v ing

Question 32

Etre tres fortement certain

Answer 32

To be bound to bv