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s’envoler

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to fly away

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un coquin

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a rascal, naughty

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un coquin de vent qui sifflote

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a naughty wind that whistles

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enfoncer

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to press

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sans crier gare

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without warning

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libellule

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dragonfly

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des contrevents

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syn: volets
shutters

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les glycines

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wisteria

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des nids de chardonnerets

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goldfinch nests

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du côté du levant

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on the east side

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faire enrager

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to enrage

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d’ailleurs, tout étonnait Jaques

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in fact, everything surprised Jaques

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un mouche égaré

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a stray fly

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se sauvèrent

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they ran away

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un corsaire à tribord

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a privateer to starboard

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à bâbord

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to port

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la mâture

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the mast

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un grand gaillard

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a big guy

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grand foulard rouge

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big red scarf

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délavé et passé

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faded and worn (past)

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le rossignol

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nightingale

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tressé en deux grand nattes

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braided into two large braids

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rétamer les casseroles

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restore the pans

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sans cela, gare!

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otherwise, beware!

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dans le garde-manger
in the pantry
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qu’ils en éprouvèrent
they experienced
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et commencement des ennuis
and the trouble begins
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ne démontez pas la pendule
don’t disassemble the clock
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défondu
defended
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peigner
to comb
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ratisser
to rake
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des coucous
cuckoo clocks
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les greffant
grafting them
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les émondent
prune them
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émonder
to trim, to prune
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pousseraient tout de travers
would puss everything askew
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un grand sécateur
large pruning shears
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le piano à queue
the grand piano
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le moulin à café
the coffee grinder
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des piolets
ice axes
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l’armoire à glace
ice-cream cabinet
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des tisonniers
pokers (fireplace)
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qui apprirent la chose à Nicodème
who told Nicodemus
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la cuisinière de fonte émaillée
the enameled cast iron stove
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la cuisinière de fonte
cast iron stove
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de fonte
cast iron
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ils entrèrent en cortège solennel
they entered in solemn procession
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des fauteuils de tapisserie
the upholstered armchairs
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la râpe à gruyère
the Gruyère cheese grater
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qui s’apaisa
which calmed
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comme une couleuvre dans l’herbe
like a snake in the grass
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un bâton de guimauve
a marshmallow stick
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une guimauve
a marshmallow
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le tapis frétillait
the carpet wriggled
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à rebrousse-poil
pet the fur in the wrong direction
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à rebrousse-poil
in the wrong direction
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dégringoler
to tumble, trip up
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échafaudage
scaffolding
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boursouflé
swollen
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s’écroulèrent
collapsed
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grand orme
big elm (tree)
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des croche-pieds
tripping (foot hook)
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un orgue
an organ
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le moulin à café se mit à jouer un air d’orgue de barbarie
the coffee grinder began to play a barrel-organ tune
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qu’elle avait la berlue
that she was delusional
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la berlue
the fool
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ils n’ont ni méchanceté, ni rancune
they don’t hold neither malice or grudges
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méchanceté
malice
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un escabeau
a stepladder
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sur le grand tilleul
on the large lime tree
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en barbouillant avec du charbon
by smearing with some coal
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en barbouillant
by daubing, smearing
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sans trêve
without a truce
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descente de lit
bedside rug
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descente de bain
bath mat
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éberlué
bewildered
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rapetisser
to shorten, to make smaller to shrink
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râpé
grated, shredded shabby, threadbare
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les galopins
the children; urchin, scamp
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garde-fou
railing
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ni garde-fou, ni rampe
no railing, no banister
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dépeindre
to depict, to describe
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dépeignait les passagers et leur refroidissant le bout du nez
depicted the passengers and cooled their noses
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quelle émotion
what a thrill
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comme des serpentins blancs
like white streamers
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la ouate
wadding
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marcher dans de la ouate mouillée
Walking in wet absorbent wadding (cotton)

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