Les Vieux Flashcards

1
Q

un gros bourg

A

a large borough, market town

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2
Q

un lieues

A

league
3 miles

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3
Q

vous causerez

A

you will cause

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4
Q

le diable soit de l’amitié

A

the devil be friends

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5
Q

mais qui ne valait rien pour les routes

A

but worthless for road racing

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6
Q

en maugréant

A

grumbling

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7
Q

accroupie et filant dans l’encoignure de sa porte

A

crouching and spinning in the corner of her doorway

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8
Q

en filant

A

spinning

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9
Q

des violons fanés

A

faded violins

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10
Q

ridé

A

wrinkled

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11
Q

ridé jusqu’au bout des doigts

A

wrinkled down to the fingertips

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12
Q

grande pèlerin et petit béguin

A

big cape and little crush

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13
Q

il n’y avait d’éveillé

A

no one was awake

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14
Q

et des valses

A

and waltzes

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15
Q

courir égaré

A

running astray

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16
Q

il bégayait

A

he stuttered

17
Q

un trot de souris dans le couloir

A

a mouse trot in the corridor

18
Q

son bonnet à coque

A

her bonnet with a shell

19
Q

en pèlerine blue

A

in a blue cape

20
Q

sur un pliant

A

on a folding chair

21
Q

ces sourires fanés

A

those faded smiles

22
Q

effarée

A

frightened

23
Q

et ne rions pas tant

A

and let’s not laugh so much

24
Q

une barquette

A

a tray

25
Q

un échaudé

A

scalded

26
Q

je vins à bout

A

I came to the end

27
Q

deux berceaux

A

two cribs

28
Q

enfouis

A

buried

29
Q

une causerie

A

a talk

30
Q

grand effroi de sa femme

A

much to his wife’s horror

31
Q

qui se hisse

A

that rises

32
Q

haletante

A

breathtaking

33
Q

une vieille timbale d’argent toute bosselée

A

a dented old silver tumbler

34
Q

atroces

A

atrocious

35
Q

sans sourciller

A

without batting an eyelid

36
Q

son habit

A

his outfit

37
Q

tout de même, mon pauvre homme

A

all the same my poor man