Jan2023d Flashcards
égarement
- distraction
- derangement, folly
enfiler
syn: mettre - to slip on, to put on
farouche
- syn: sauvage- ferocious, wild, savage
- fierce, unyielding
auréolait
- halo
- syn: tache - spot, ring
un auriculaire
little finger, pinkie
un leurre
- syn: appât - lure, bait
- syn: illusion, tromperie - deception, delusion
ouvragé (e)
finely worked, elaborate
la lame
- strip, slat
- blade
- sword
le calice
- chalice
- calyx
trompeur
- deceitful
- deceptive, misleading
pansements
band-aids
aire de jeux
playground
mouchoirs
tissues
la tenue
- holding, running of a meeting etc
- organizing, keeping
- conduct, manners
- bearing, posture
- clothes, outfit
tenue de livres
bookkeeping
tenue d’hiver
winter clothing
tenue militaire
military dress
un orgueil
pride
la besogne
task, job
gré
will
fâcheux (cheuse)
- syn: ennuyeux - annoying
- syn: regrettable - unfortunate
le bourreau
hangman
la pommette
cheekbone
la escale
- port of call
- stopover
belle lurette
ages, a long time
il y a belle lurette
a long time ago
ça fait belle lurette que
it’s been ages since
endosser
- to take on, to shoulder
- to endorse, to sign
- to don, to put on (clothes)
une combinaison spatiale
space suit
une combinaison
- (full length) slip
- suit, overalls
rechercher
- sought after, in demand
- refined, studied
la meurtre
murder
le prêtre
priest
être navré de
to be sorry about
navré
upset
aboutir
syn: réussir - to succeed
aboutir dans
to result in, to end up in
tractations
negotiations
la canaille
- riff raff
- scoundrel, rascal
viser
- to aim for, to aim at
- to stamp (a document)
lignée
lineage, descendants
le sbire
policier sans scrupule ; homme de main
ravisseurs
kidnapper, abductor
la brousse
- brush
- fam: boondocks
en pleine brousse
in the middle of nowhere
le recel
possession of stolen goods
à califourchon
astride, a straddle
le fauve
- big cat
- fawn (color)
goguenard
syn: moquer - mocking , mocked
escale
- port of call
- stopover
le scaphandre
- diving suit
- spacesuit
féodal
feudal
le châtiment
syn: punition
Punishment
le bagne
- penal colony
- harsh labor
aborder
- to approach
- to tackle, to deal with
- to board (an enemy ship)
jadis
- in times past, formerly
- former, olden
au temps jadis
in days of old
la chair
- flesh
- Meat
chair de poule
goosebumps
la manette
lever
fade
- dull, drab
- tasteless, insipid
d’une voie boudeuse
sulky voice
une flotte
- fleet
- fam: - water, rain
de fond en comble
from top to bottom
(bottom to peak)
le comble
extreme point
c’est le comble
that takes the cake
soûler
syn: enivrer - to make drunk, to intoxicate
se soûler
to get drunk
soûler de
to be intoxicated with
une esquisse
sketch, outline, summary
la nacelle
partie d’un ballon, d’un aérostat, où se trouve les passagers
la soute
hold of a ship
syn: cale
fuyard
- runaway
- deserter (military)
la betterave
the beet
patrouilles
patrols
fourrer
- to stuff
- to line (with fur)
le fourré
thicket
le fourreau
sheath, case, scabbard
le gué
ford, crossing
passer à gué
to ford
la brasse
- breaststroke
- fathom
la brasier
blaze, inferno
le vaisseau
vessel, ship
vaisseau spatial
spaceship
la coupole
cupola, dome
le tir
- shooting, gunnery
- firing
déclencher le tir
to open fire
un élan
- momentum
- burst, rush, surge
un élan de colère
a burst of anger
avec élan
enthusiastically
un obus
shell (cartridge)
obus de mortier
mortar shell
éclats d’obus
shrapnel
maussade
- syn: morose - sullen
- dismal, gloomy
parvenir à
to reach, to arrive at
nasillarde
nasel
blême
pale, wan, pallid
le fouet
whip, whisk
le décalage
- gap, space, offset
- interval
sidérer
to stagger (the imagination), to amaze
c’est sidère
it’s staggering
divergence
discrepancy
calage
shimming
