Les Vieux Flashcards by Andy Brewer

Q

un gros bourg

A

a large borough, market town

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un lieues

A

league
3 miles

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vous causerez

A

you will cause

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le diable soit de l’amitié

A

the devil be friends

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mais qui ne valait rien pour les routes

A

but worthless for road racing

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en maugréant

A

grumbling

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accroupie et filant dans l’encoignure de sa porte

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crouching and spinning in the corner of her doorway

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en filant

A

spinning

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des violons fanés

A

faded violins

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ridé

A

wrinkled

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ridé jusqu’au bout des doigts

A

wrinkled down to the fingertips

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grande pèlerin et petit béguin

A

big cape and little crush

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il n’y avait d’éveillé

A

no one was awake

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et des valses

A

and waltzes

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courir égaré

A

running astray

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il bégayait

A

he stuttered

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un trot de souris dans le couloir

A

a mouse trot in the corridor

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son bonnet à coque

A

her bonnet with a shell

Q

en pèlerine blue

A

in a blue cape

Q

sur un pliant

A

on a folding chair

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ces sourires fanés

A

those faded smiles

Q

effarée

A

frightened

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et ne rions pas tant

A

and let’s not laugh so much

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une barquette

A

a tray

un échaudé

scalded

je vins à bout

I came to the end

deux berceaux

two cribs

enfouis

buried

une causerie

a talk

grand effroi de sa femme

much to his wife’s horror

qui se hisse

that rises

haletante

breathtaking

une vieille timbale d’argent toute bosselée

a dented old silver tumbler

atroces

atrocious

sans sourciller

without batting an eyelid

son habit

his outfit

tout de même, mon pauvre homme

all the same my poor man