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1
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au dessus, en dessous du niveau de la mer

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above, below sea level

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la pleine mer

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the open sea

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une mer fermée

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a landlocked sea

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en haute mer

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on the high seas

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l’eau de mer

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sea water

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les fonds marins

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the sea bed

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la faune, la flore marine

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marine animals, plants

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la marée

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the tide

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à marée haute, basse

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at high, low tide

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la mer est haute, basse

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the tide is in, out

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la marée montante, descendante

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the rising, falling tide

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la marée monte, descend

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to tide is coming in, is going out

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le flux

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the flood tide

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le reflux

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the ebb tide

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une lame de fond

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a ground swell

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les vagues deferlantes

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surf

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déferler

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to break

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un brisant

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a breaker

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la houle

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the swell

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le ressac

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the undertow, the backwash

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une mer houleuse, agitée, calme

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a rough, choppy, calm sea

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la crête d’une vague

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the crest of a wave

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les moutons

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white horses

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les embruns

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spray

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l’écume

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foam

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un raz de marée

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a tidal wave

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un golfe

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a gulf

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une anse

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a cove

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une crique

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an inlet, a creek

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un détroit

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a strait, straits

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un chenal

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a channel

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côtier

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coastal

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le rivage

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the sea shore

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sur le rivage

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by the seashore

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le bord de la mer

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the seaside

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au bord de la mer

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at, by the seaside

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un banc de sable

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a sandbank

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une plage de sable

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a sandy beach

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un galet

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a pebble

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les galets

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shingle, pebbles

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une plage de galets

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a shingle, pebbly beach

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rocailleux

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rocky

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un récif

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a reef

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l’embouchure d’un fleuve

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the mouth of a river

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un estuaire

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an estuary

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sans accès à la mer, sans littoral

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landlocked

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la mer Egée

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the Aegean

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la mer des Caraïbes, la mer des Antilles

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the Caribbean sea

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la Manche

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the English Channel

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le golde de Gascogne

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the Bay of Biscay

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le golfe du Lion

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the Gulf of Lions

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le golfe Persique

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the Persian Gulf

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53
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la baie de Hudson

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the Hudson Bay

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54
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les quarantièmes rugissants

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the roaring forties

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le détroit de Gibraltar

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the Strait of Gibraltar

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56
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les conditions météorologiques

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weather conditions

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57
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les prévisions météo..

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the weather forecast

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la barometre est au beau, est à la pluie

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the barometer is set at fair, is pointing to rain

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la pression atmosphérique, barométrique

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atmospheric, barometric pressure

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une girouette

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a weathercock, weathervane

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il fait beau

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the weather’s fine

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il fait beau aujourd’hui

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it’s a nice day

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63
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du très beau temps

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glorious weather

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des éclaircies

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bright intervals

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65
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le temps se leve

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the weather is clearing up

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le temps s’éclaircit, se dégage

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the weather is brightening up

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s’améliorer

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to get better

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une sécheresse

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drought

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un banc de nuage

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a cloud bank

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se couvrir

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to cloud over

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couvert (pluie)

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overcast

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maussade

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dull

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un ciel gris

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a gray sky, grey skies

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variable

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changeable

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unstable

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unsettled

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le temps eq$st à la pluie, la neige

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it looks like rain, snow

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empirer

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to get worse

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les précipitations

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rainfall

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une goutte de pluie

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a raindrop

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l’eau de pluie

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rainwater

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une pluie diluvienne, un deluge

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a deluge

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bruiner

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to drizzle

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la bruine

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drizzle

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84
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,une petite pluie fine

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a steady drizzle

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85
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une averse

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a shower

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86
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des averses intermittentes

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scattered showers

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une grosse averse

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a cloudburst, downpour

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88
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il pleut à torrents

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it’s pouring with rain

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la neige fondue

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sleet

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90
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la grêle

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hail

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un grelon

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a hailstone

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92
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le brouillard

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fog

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93
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brumeux

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foggy

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la brume

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mist

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95
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une bru

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a haze

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brumeux

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hazy, misty

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se lever (brouillars, brume)

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to lift

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98
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se faire tremper

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to get soaked, drenched

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etre trempé jusqu’aux os

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to be soaked through

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100
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humid (et froid), ((cave)

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damp

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101
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la rosée

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dew

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il y a du vent

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there’s a wind blowing, it’s windy

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un vent fort

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a high, strong wind

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le vent dominant

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the prevailing wind

105
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un coup de vent

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a gust of wind

106
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souffler en bourrasques

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to gust

107
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balayé par les vents

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windswept

108
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il n’y avait pas un souffle dair

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there was hardly a breath of wind

109
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se calmer, tomber

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to abate

110
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une tempete

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a storm, a gale, a tempest

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une violente tempete

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a howling gale

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le vent souffle en tempete

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it”s blowing a gale

113
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une rafale de vent

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a squall, a strong gust of wind

114
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un tourbillon de vent

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a whirlwind

115
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un ouragan

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a hurricane

116
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se déchainer

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to rage

117
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un glissement de terrain

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a landslide

118
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un orage

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a thunderstorm

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orageux

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thundery, stormy

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un coup de tonerre

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a clap of thunder

121
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les aclairs, la foudre

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lightning

122
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il y avait des éclairs

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there were flashes of lightning, the lightning flashed

123
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la foudre est tombée

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lightning has struck

124
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un paratonnerre

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a lightning conductor

125
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la gel, la gelée

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frost

126
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la gelée blanche

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ground frost

127
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geler

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to freeze

128
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il gelera dur

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there will be hard frost

129
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il gelera le matin

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il will be a frosty morning

130
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le givre

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hoarfrost

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givrer

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to ice up, to frost over

132
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le verglas

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black ice

133
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une plaque de verglas

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a sheet of black ice

134
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verglacé

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icy

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une couche de neige

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a blanket of snow

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une congère

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a snowdrift

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enneigé

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snow covered

138
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eineigé, bloqué par la neige (route, région)

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snowbound

139
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etre incommodé par la chaleur

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to be bothered by the heat

140
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une chaleur caniculaire

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sweltering heat

141
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avoir tres chaud

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to be hot

142
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une journée de grand beau temps

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a blazing hot day

143
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une vague de chaleur

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a heatwave

144
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il fait une chaleur étouffante

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it’ss scorching hot

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j’étouffe

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i’m boiling hot

146
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suffocant (chaleur)

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sultry

147
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lourd(temps)

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close

148
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c’est brulant

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it’s bruning hot

149
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cest brulant, bouilant (boisson

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it’s boiling hot

150
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c’est brulant (nourriture)

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it’s piping hot

151
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la chaleur

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warmth

152
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au chaud

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in the warm

153
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avoir bien chaud, etre bien au chaud

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to be nice and warm

154
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il fait assez chaud aujourd’hui

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it’s warm today

155
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il fait bon aujourd’hui

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it’s nice and warm today

156
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rechauffer

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to reheat, to heat up again, warm up again

157
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rechauffer (personne)

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to warm up

158
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se rechauffer (temps, temperature)

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to get warmer

159
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se rechauffer

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to warm os up

160
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tiede, pas assez chaud

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tepid, lujewarm

161
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par des temlperatures de plus de 30°

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in temperatures of over 30°

162
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des temperatures en dessous de 0

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below-freezing temperatures

163
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il faisait 30° à l’ombre

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it was 30° in the shade

164
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baisser (temperature)

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to fall

165
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frais

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cool

166
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c’‘est bien frais

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it’s nice and cool

167
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dans la fraicheur de la nuit

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in the cool of the night

168
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etre frileux

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to feel the cold

169
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c’est glacial ici

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its freezing, icy cold in here

170
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je gele

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i’m freezing

171
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je meurs de frois

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i’m perished

172
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il fait très froid

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it’s chilly

173
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il fait frisquet

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it’s nippy

174
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rafraichir (vin)

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to chill

175
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rafraichir (boisson)

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to cool

176
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le temps se rafraichit

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it’s getting cooler, colder

177
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refroidir (nourriture)

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to get cold

178
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un rayon de lumière

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a ray of light, a beam of light

179
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la jour

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daylight

180
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en plein jour

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in broad daylight

181
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le soleil, la lumiere du soleil

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sunlight

182
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éclairé par le soleil, ensoleillé

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sunlit

183
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le clair de lune

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moonlight

184
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éclairé par la lune

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moonlit

185
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la fenere était éclairée

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there was a light in the window, the window was lit up

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éclaircir (teinte)

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to lighten

187
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clair, lumineux (piece)

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bright, light

188
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vif (flamme, lumiere)

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bright

189
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la clarté

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brightness

190
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l’éclat

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brillance

191
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éclatant

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brilliant

192
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éblouir

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to dazzle

193
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une lueur

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a glow ,a gleam

194
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luire

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to glow, gleam

195
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une failble lueur

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a glimmer

196
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scintiller

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to twinkle

197
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miroiter

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to shimmer

198
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étinceler

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to sparkle

199
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clignoter

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to flash

200
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faible, pale (lumirer)

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faint, dim

201
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sans éclat (lumiere)

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dull

202
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l’ombre, l’ombrage

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shade

203
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avant, apres la tombée de la nuit

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before, after dark

204
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il fait nuit noire

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it’s pitch-dark

205
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obscur

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dark

206
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assombrir

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to darken

207
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ténébreux

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dark, gloomy

208
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les ténébres

A

darkness, gloom

209
Q

les couleurs fondamentales

A

the primary colours

210
Q

coloré

A

coloured

211
Q

coloré (vetements, joliment)

A

colouful

212
Q

une tache de couleur

A

a splash of colour

213
Q

blanchir (tissu)

A

to whiten

214
Q

blanchir (cheveux)

A

to turn white, to go grey

215
Q

noircir (fumée)

A

to blacken

216
Q

noircir (peinture, cire)

A

to darken

217
Q

bleuir

A

to turn blue

218
Q

brun

A

dark brown

219
Q

brunir (cheveux)

A

to go darker

220
Q

brunir (peronne, peau)

A

to get a tan

221
Q

rougir (fruit, légume)

A

to redden, to turn red

222
Q

rougir (de honte, par gene)

A

to blush, to go red

223
Q

rosir (visage)

A

to go pink

224
Q

rosir (ciel)

A

to grow pink, to turn pink

225
Q

cramoisi

A

crimson

226
Q

blanc comme neige

A

snow-white

227
Q

noir comme du jais, de l’encre

A

jet, ink black

black as jet, as ink

228
Q

bordeaux

A

maroon

229
Q

ocre

A

ochre

230
Q

vert olive

A

olive-green

231
Q

roux (feuilles, pelage)

A

russet, reddish-brown

232
Q

roux (foncé : cheveux)

A

red, auburn

233
Q

intense

A

deep

234
Q

vif

A

bright, vivid

235
Q

soutenu

A

strong

236
Q

terne

A

dull

237
Q

uni

A

plain

238
Q

incolore

A

colourless

239
Q

voyant, criard

A

gaudy, garish, loud

240
Q

fade

A

drab

241
Q

tacheté

A

speckled

242
Q

etre assorti à

A

to mattch

243
Q

s’assortir avec

A

to go with

244
Q

jurer avec

A

to clash with

245
Q

le coloris, la coloration

A

colouring

246
Q

un ton

A

a shade

247
Q

une teinte

A

a tint, a hue

248
Q

teindre

A

to dye

249
Q

déteindre

A

to run

250
Q

passer

A

to fade

251
Q

passé, délavé

A

faded

252
Q

l’eau de Javel

A

bleach

253
Q

décolorer

A

to bleach

254
Q

le niveau de la mer

A

sea level

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