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

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no one was awake

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et des valses

A

and waltzes

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courir égaré

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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

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her bonnet with a shell

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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

Q

et ne rions pas tant

A

and let’s not laugh so much

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une barquette

A

a tray

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un échaudé

A

scalded

Q

je vins à bout

A

I came to the end

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deux berceaux

A

two cribs

Q

enfouis

A

buried

Q

une causerie

A

a talk

Q

grand effroi de sa femme

A

much to his wife’s horror

Q

qui se hisse

A

that rises

Q

haletante

A

breathtaking

Q

une vieille timbale d’argent toute bosselée

A

a dented old silver tumbler

Q

atroces

A

atrocious

Q

sans sourciller

A

without batting an eyelid

Q

son habit

A

his outfit

Q

tout de même, mon pauvre homme

A

all the same my poor man