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fatherland
la patrie
patrimony, matrimony, get married to your fatherland
upcoming elections
les elections anticipées
elect someone in universal suffrage
elire qqn au suffrage universel
ballot, balloting
le scrutin
pass a law
voter une loi
freedom of religion
la liberte du culte
freedom to belong to a cult
self-determination
l’autodetermination
abstain (from voting)
s’abstenir
constituency
une conscription (electorale)
conscript all the voters in your constituency and they won’t vote for you
parliamentary pay
l’indemnite parlementaire
dismiss
renvoyer
messanger dismissed, sent back to where he came from
minister of Justice
le/la Garde de Sceaux
minister of justive, death, guards the waters of the Stix with his scythe
carry out a cabinet reshuffle
proceder a un remaniement ministeriel
reshuffle all the ministers’ hands
tax authorities
le fisc
tax somebody
imposer qqn
taxed for being an impostor
join
se rallier a
neo-Gaullist party
le RPR
party of centrist middle clases
l’UDF
police station
le commissariat
confess
passer aux aveux
i confees to you that i tried to sell avon to eux
a charge
une inculpation
dismissal of a charge
le non-lieu
give evidence for/against
déposer en faveur de/contre qqn
I de-positioned myself to come give evidence at this trial
self-defence
la légitime défense
imprisonment for life
la reclusion a perpetuite
institute preliminary procedures
mettre qqn en examen
initiate an investigation for bringing a mouse into an exam
police custody
la garde a vue
guarding you where they can see you
house search
une perquisition
inquisition searches your house 5 times a week
piece of evidence
une pièce a conviction
blackmail someone
faire chanter qqn
blackmail someone with a tape of them singing
blackmailer
un maitre-chanteur
management
le patronat
unauthorized strike
une greve sauvage
savage slaves staged an unauthorized strike
meet
se reunir
union member
un adherent
employees and employers
les partenaires sociaux
to protest
contester
call for a strike
lancer un ordre de grève
walkout
un debrayage
a herd of braying donkeys stages a walkout from the barn
walk out
debrayer
walk out braying donkey
strikebreaker
un briseur de greve
French-born child of maghrebins
un beur, beurette
rise up against
se soulever contre
arms race
la course aux armements
conscript
un conscrit
professional army
l’armee de metier
navy
la marine
submarine
un sous-marin
aircraft carrier
un porte-avions
emerge as victor
sortir vainqueur de
senior years
le 3eme age
make a fortune
faire fortune
the disadvantaged
les desherites
son disadvantaged because he didn’t inherit anything
economically disadvantaged
economiquement faible
social gap
la fracture sociale
give aid to someone
porter secours a qqn
be at the top of
etre en tete de
fade into the background
passer au second plan
similiar
semblable
funny
drole (after noun)
strange
drole (before noun)
unless
a moins que + subj + lit ne
stumble, trip
buter
trip on butter
put a deep root in someone
plonger en qqn une racine que ne peut jamais etre arrachee
border
la frontiere
jangle, clicking, rattle
un cliquetis
that clicking, tis coming from the rattling chain
reckless, careless, lifeless
le inconscient
stockpile, store (energy)
emmagasiner
stockpile emmas in a magasin
devoid, empty
denue
to store
entreposer
store self-abosrbement between posers
with the result that
de sorte que
I sorted my clothes with the result that my cupboard is clean
pillow
un coussin
made a pillow with my cousin’s hair
concealing, hiding
l’occulation
hiding your occult leanings
overshadow, obscure
occulter
the fact that you worship the occult is more important to me than the fact that you’re a priest
seize, take over, possess
s’emparer
take over a pair of emma’s
weave
se tisser
weave a carpet out of tissues
saint-like, legendary
hagiographique
this old hag is a legendary geographer
bolt, lock
un verrou
where can I fing a glass lock
to surface, become noticable, come to light
se faire jour
fall in the birthrate
la denatalite
deterioration, degeneration
la degenerescence
nursing (adj)
allaitant
aunt lysa was a bit late in stopping nursing
stanza
la strophe
era, age
un ere
get out of limbo, come out of nowhere
sortir des limbes
from the cradle to the grave
de berceau a tombeau
become acquiainted with, meet
faire connaissance avec
picteresque
pittoresque
be on the crossroads of
etre au carrefour de
in advance, prior to
au prealable
le colloque
seminar, symposium
seminar about using colloquial language
obsolete, null
caduc
a cat in inside a duck is an obsolete point to this argument
to not mention, ignore, not address
passer qqch sous silence
glider,hover, float/be high
planer
bring before, refer
deferer
direct (towards), steer
aiguiller
whiff, puff, rush (of)
une bouffee
ant
une fourmi
four ants sing for me
sowing (seeds)
les semailles
sam sowing seeds from the wings of his plane
baldness
la calvitie
a calvity forming in your head along with baldness
pillow
l’oreiller
put your ears on the pillow
bluster, storm
faire rage
old hand, veteran, old ace at smth
un briscard
old ace in the brisbane card game
dash forward, shoot up
s’elancer
dash forward onto a lance, soul shoots up to the sky
to dash off
partir a bride
bride dashes off straight after the wedding
fault
un defaut
armour
la cuirasse
racist got cooked in his armour
taken aback
décontenancé
taken about by de count’s decision to marry nancy
crest (bird)
une aigrette
gretta - i has a bird crest
region, area, land
la contree
count owns all the trees in this region
ardour, zeal, fire, spirit
la fougue
the fou man said with ardour - foog u
to idolize
idolâtre
wavy
ondule
two hondas battle in a wave pool duel
beardless
imberbe
red-faced
rougeaud
red-faced because got eau’d
benevolent
bienveillant
to accept the evidence
se rendre a l’evidence
claim to, reclaim
se réclamer de qch
smooth, hairless, clean-shaven
glabre
foot soldier
le fantassin
link up, connect, bind (book)
relier
shaft, pole, rod
le timon
untie, undo
dénouer
here an now, stright away
sur-le-champ
attack
assailir
breach, brake, gap
une brèche
line uup, pull over, side with
se ranger
chasten, scourge
chatier
pilgramige
pèlerinage
bold, daring
hardi
stampede, disarray
la débandade
millenium
millénaire
simultaneous
entrefaite
tomb
la sépulture
steeped in, full of
pétri
dawn (verb), emerge
se faire jour
zeal
zèle
collar
le col
footpath
le sentier
meandering, winding
sinueux
it’s very col
il fait un froid de loup
raft
radeau
exhausting
exténuant
worsen, turn ugly
s’envenimer
pierce, go through
tanspercer
bitterly
amèrement
conspiracy
une conjuration
fury
impétuosité
unchain
se dechainer
one who keeps or drives elephants
cornac
become even more stubborn
se buter
to come up against
buter contre
he’s totally irresponsible
c’est un inconscient
be under lock and key
etre sous verrous
in declne
en pleine degenerescence
nurse, breast feed
allaiter
to bottle-feed
allaiter au biberon
the amusing thing about all that
la pittoresque dans tout cela
converse, discuss
colloquer
deciduous tree
arbre a feuilles caduques
to allow uncertainty to persist
laisser plainer le doute
second hand
aiguille des secondes
to clear a path
frayer le chemin
surge of pride
bouffée d’orgueil
to have a puff/drag
tirer une bouffee
labourious task
travail de fourmi
have pins and needles
avoir des fourmis dans les jambes
be going bald
avoir un debut de calvitie
to have free reign
avoir la bride sur le cou/lacher la bride sur qqn
chink in the armour
le defaut de la cuirasse de qqn
roll, ripple, sway
onduler
he can’t hold a candle to.
il n’arrive pas a la cheville de
bombard with questions
assaillir de questions
white-collar worker
col blanc/bleu
muddy, garbage collector
boueux
mouthpiece, mouth (river)
l’embouchure
moistiness, sweatiness
la moiteur
mow, flatten
faucher
reprisal, retribution
represaille
bloody, bloodthirsty
sanguinaire
for good
pour de bon
gravier
gravel, pit
in an unyielding manner
inexorablement
unfathomable, immense
insondable
drum, drummer
le tambour
drinking session
la beuverie
squatting down
accroupi
beam (of light)
le fasceau
related to rain
pluviale
one who studies caves
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