L'étranger - le meutre

Question 1

amasser

Answer 1

to amass or to accumulate

Question 2

se secouer

Answer 2

to shake itself

Question 3

gâchette

Answer 3

trigger

Question 4

dégouter

Answer 4

disgust; find it disgusting, to lose one’s taste for;

se dégouter = to get sick of

Question 5

canotier

Answer 5

boater

Question 6

appuyer

Answer 6

to lean on/against/something else on; to support or to back, to press on

Question 7

chalutier

Answer 7

a fishing boat used for trawling.fish with a trawl net or seine : the boats trawled for flounder | [as n. ] ( trawling) restrictions on excessive trawling were urgently needed.
• [ trans. ] catch with a trawl net.
• sift through as part of a search : they trawled through twenty-five-year-old confidential files | [ trans. ] he trawled his memory and remembered locking the door.
• [ trans. ] drag or trail (something) through water or other liquid : she trawled a toe to test the temperature.

Question 8

léger

Answer 8

light, slight, delicate

Question 9

cueillir

Answer 9

to pick, to gather, to catch

cueillir à froid = hand pick

Question 10

coller

Answer 10

to stick, to seal, to stick up, to shove, to be sticky

Question 11

tailladée

Answer 11

slashed - taillader : to slash

Question 12

se taire

Answer 12

to fall silent, to be quiet, to shut up

Question 13

sourcils

Answer 13

eyebrows (sans sourciller - without batting an eyelid, without frowning (literally) or raising an eyebrow)

Question 14

fuir

Answer 14

to flee from, to avoid, to run away, to leak

Question 15

bagarre

Answer 15

fight, a brawl

Question 16

adossé

Answer 16

leaning against, backed against, built against

Question 17

congé

Answer 17

holiday, time off, a leave

Question 18

mine

Answer 18

an expression or look (elle avait une mine fatiguée), appearance, a coal mine

Question 19

ivresse

Answer 19

drunkenness, intoxication

Question 20

épée

Answer 20

sword

Question 21

poing

Answer 21

a fist: coup de poing - a punch; faire le coup de poing - to start a fight; arme de poing - handgun

Question 22

assourdir

Answer 22

to deafen, to muffle

Question 23

mouiller

Answer 23

to wet, to add liquid to, make more moist, se mouiller - to commit oneself

Question 24

surchauffer

Answer 24

to overheat

Question 25

malheur

Answer 25

misfortune, tragedy, mistake,

Question 26

aveugle

Answer 26

blind

Question 27

éparpiller

Answer 27

to scatter, to disperse, to dissipate

Question 28

épatante

Answer 28

stunning, super, splendid

Question 29

écraser

Answer 29

to crush, to run over, to overwrite

Question 30

glaive

Answer 30

double-edged sword

Question 31

chaleurs

Answer 31

hot season, heat, warm season/weather, passion/fervor

Question 32

graisseux

Answer 32

fatty, greasy, grease stained

Question 33

visqueuse

Answer 33

viscous, sticky

Question 34

secouer

Answer 34

to shake, se secouer, to shake itself up

Question 35

se charger

Answer 35

to take care/charge of something

Question 36

gicler

Answer 36

splatter, spurt

Question 37

finir par

Answer 37

ended up —

Question 38

débarras

Answer 38

lumber room, outhouse, junk cupboard, storeroom

Question 39

s’étendre

Answer 39

extend

Question 40

à la

Answer 40

by, at the, at

Question 41

enfoncée

Answer 41

deep-set, smashed in

Question 42

un tic

Answer 42

a tick, a twitch

Question 43

un pas

Answer 43

pace, walk, tread, step, footstep,

Question 44

se coller contre

Answer 44

stick oneself against?

Question 45

pleutre

Answer 45

cowardly