Reverse Vocabulaire | 8/20/13 Flashcards

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A point of no return

A

Le Rubicon

Le Rubicon traversé

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to unload, to disembark, to turn up

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débarquer

Quand il a vu débarquer dans son musée les hommes de l’administrateur… il a compris.

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straightaway, at once

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Tout de suite

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to straighten or sort out, to set upright

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redresser

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work, works (as in painting, work of art)

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une œuvre

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deeds, good works

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des œuvres

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spoke for itself (herself)

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parlait d’elle-même

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bankruptcy / collapse

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la faillite

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billionaire

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la milliardaire

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(adj) modernist

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moderniste

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generously

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généreusement

(gé - né - reuse - ment)

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to entrust / to confide

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confier (à) / se confier

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temptation

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la tentation

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to dip into

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de piocher dans
(exp)

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painting

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le tableau

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value

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valeur

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to banish

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bannir

Nous serons bannis (We will be banished)

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the trust / confidence

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la confiance

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although, or still …. than

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encore que

La fermeture de DIA serait plus violente encore que la faillite de GM. (still more violent than)

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to fight

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se battre

Je me bats souvent avec mon frère.

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1) to glide, to slip
2) to fit into

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glisser

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1) to stay
2) to be left with, to remain

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rester

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space

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de la place

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soul

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une âme

pron = like “arm” but without the “r”

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riot

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une émeute

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to go and get / to pick up

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aller chercher

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more distant

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plus lointaines

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Then, there are
Then, they are

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puis ce sont

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laborious

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laborieuse

(la - bor - rie - use)

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elsewhere, somewhere else

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ailleurs

pron = “ahye - yur”

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to empty

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se vider

vide = (adj) empty
Des rues se sont vidées

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entire, whole

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entier, entière

Des rues entières…

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for want or lack of anything better

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par désœuvrement

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petrol can

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un bidon d’essence

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box of matches

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une boîte d’allumettes

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to set fire to, to set on fire

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mettre le feu à

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in hundreds, by hundreds

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par centaines

(sun-ten)

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to replace

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remplacer

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ghost, phantomune

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fantôme

ville fantôme (ghost town)

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corpse, dead body

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cadavre

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to exhume

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exhumer

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cemetery

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le cimetière

pron = “seem - tière”
le cimetière de voitures (scrapyard)

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to bury

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enterrer

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supply / supplying, provisions

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approvisionnement

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to cross / to pass through

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traverser

On a traversé la France pour aller en Espagne.