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apparement

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seemingly

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comme illustration

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as an illustration of this

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il n’y a qu’à regarder

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we need look no further than

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le + couramment lu

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most widely read

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pomposité, sonorité

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sententiousness

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1e phrase d’1 txt

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opening sentence

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avec une réticence explicite

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with explicit reserve

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d’une façon subtile, subtilement

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subtly

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certitudes initiales

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initial certainties

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de la mê façon contesté

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similarly challenged

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au contraire de

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unlike

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saper, miner, ébranler

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undermine

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lapidaire

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lapidary

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prend la forme de

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be cast in the form of

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malléable

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malleable

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lié au context

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context-bound

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se transformer, se changer en

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morph into

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trope

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trope

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portée, champ, étendue

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scope

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décalage

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discrepancy

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linéarité

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linearity

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possession du texte multi-dimensionnel

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possession of the multi-dimensional text

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parallèle à

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parallel to

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susciter l’intérêt

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rouse interest

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emblématique

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iconic

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rechercher, courtiser

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court

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profondément, extrêmement, de manière aiguë

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acutely

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énonciation

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narration

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narration

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narrative

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intriguer

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intrigue

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un panthéon de quatre

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a pantheon of four

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la clé essentielle

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the essential key

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une foule d’indices

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of a mass of clues

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vu le, en prenant le…comme…

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taking (the…) to be

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au tournant du siècle

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at the turn of the century

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scion, descendant

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scion

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creuser, fouiller dans, étudier 1 sujet à fond [plonger ds]

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delve [into]

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désillusionné

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desillusioned

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jusqu’au bout, à fond

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to the full

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jusqu’à

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right up to

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sans aucun doute

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doubtless

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suggestif de

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suggestive of

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reéalise-t-on rapidement

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, we quickly realize,

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être bien trop

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be all too

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en contraste flagrant

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in stark contrast to

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deuil

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bereavement

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sagesse populaire

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folk-wisdom

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donner, communiqué, fait connaître

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imparted

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d’autant plus large

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therefore that much wider

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se pencher sur, examiner

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to turn to the use of..

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exercer une fonction de

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to perform one’s function of

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dont l’origine remonte / retracé

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to be traced back

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qui ne sait rien des pages qui suivent

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to be innocent of the content of the following pages

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un sentiment d’identité

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a sense of identity

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école maternelle

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prep school

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public school

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école privée

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être inhérent à

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to be inherent in

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jusqu’à

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right up to

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sexagénaire

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sexagenerian

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avertir, faire savoir du ton élégiaque

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to inform the elegiac tone

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consolant, réconfortant

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consoling

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endeuillé

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bereaved

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faire le tri dans

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to sort through

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le narrateur ainsi clairement décrit

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with the narrator thus clearly depicted

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le sens ait donné d’une manière qui donne..

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the sense is imparted in a way that gives

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le passé lointain

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the distant past

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extrêmement

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wildly

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être exprimé puissamment par..

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be given powerful expression in ..

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une narration à la première personne

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a first-person narrative

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en relisant

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on re-reading

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s’avérer être

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to turn out to be

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une disparité clairement délimitée

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well-delineated disparity

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pas autant (de) ..que

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not so much (of)… as (of)

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malgré sa simplicité apparence

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despite its apparent simplicity

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chargé de

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freighted with

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toujours / constant / perpétuellement qqc (adj)

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ever-sth

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simplicité trompeuse

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deceptively simple

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avec un examen poussé

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on close examination

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un signe de, un symptôme de

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a symptom of

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la juxtaposition problematique de simultanéité et de différence

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the problematic juxtaposition of simultaneity and difference

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par là

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in this

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éloignement, étrangeté

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estrangement

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comme nous l’avons remarqué précedemment

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as noted earlier

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réouvert

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reopened

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miscalleneous

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hétéroclytes

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untel et untel de la mê manière

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sb and sb alike

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loin d’être clair

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far from clear

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alerter le lecteur attentif de

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to alert the attentive reader to

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lui seul

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he alone

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bien s’y connaître

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to be versed in

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qui fait autorité

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is to conjure with

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sceller

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seal

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moignon, souche

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stump

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en dernier lieu

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in final closure

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sealing wax

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cire à cacheter

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un évènement qui ne devait jamais jamais être discuté

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an event that was never ever to be discussed

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verbaliser

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verbalise

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se confronter à / faire face à / accepter

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to come to terms with

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qqc e clairement rendu symbolique du phénomène de …vb

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explicitly made symbolic of the phenomenon of returning

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comparaison

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simile

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mention

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mention

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enfermer, contenir

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enclose

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similarité frappante dans une différence profonde

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striking similarity in profound difference

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urchin

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oursin / gamin des rues

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poignant

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poignant

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parmi les.. ils sont en effet les +..

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of the …, these are indeed the most ajdV

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insouciant, sans souci

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carefree

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bloqué dans

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arrested in

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dépourvu de

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devoid of

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au vu de

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in view of

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faire irruption dans

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to erupt into

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à ce moment, cette jonction

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at this juncture

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l’usage de .. transcende

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the use of… transcends

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tout comme…, il en est de mê de

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and just as…, so it is with

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vehicle

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figurant

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tenor

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figuré

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fusionner, fondre, se fondre

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merge with

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culminant

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climactic

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remobiliser dans

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remotivate in

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coalescence

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coalescence

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métaphore lexicalisée

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lexicalised dead metaphor

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une collocation pas tout à fait courante

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the not entirely usual collocation of “”

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travail laborieux

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painstaking work

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désastreusement, épouvantablement, catastrophiquement

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devastatingly

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trous de mémoires dus à l’amnésie

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amnestic blanks

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trouver un point d’attention

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find a focus

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an original treatment of what is a literary topos

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.

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envahir (le texte)

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pervade

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le tour de passe-passe

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the harmless conjuring trick

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middle-brow

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requérant un effort intellectuel moyen, grand public

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on se tourne maintenant vers

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we now turn to

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contention

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conflit, assertion

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de manière à

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so as to

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attaquer, en venir aux mains

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be coming to grips with

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épopée

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epic

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ce qui s’apprêtait à advenir

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what was to come after

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milieu intellectuel

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intellectual milieu

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une amitié de toute une vie

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a lifelong friendship

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class-ridden sty

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sté de classes

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en effervescence, grouillant

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seething

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pertinent

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apposite

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se dérouler, se déployer

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unfold

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effet enivrant, grisant

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heady effect

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heraldry

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heraldique

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to take the reader back beyond

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.

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signe, geste

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gesturing

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vieillissant

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ageing

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dans certains milieux

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in some quarters

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être conforme à

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be consonant/congruent with

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the title, which all readers of all novels seek to make congruent with the narrative as it unfolds

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.

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simplicité apparente

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seeming simplicity

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revenir sur / à

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to hark back to

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strates

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strata

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ressortir, se détacher, se distinguer

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to stand out on

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can be read as one concerned with surface clarity being compatible with profundity

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.

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âgé

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elderly

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aigri

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embittered

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encore que, bien que

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albeit

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a tour de force.

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.

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beauté artistique

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artistry

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cloaked as

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couvert du voile de

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scenario

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screenplay

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s’inspirant de

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modelled on =

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à peine, faiblement

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thinly

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enquête sur

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enquiry into

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