Time And Human Life Flashcards

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Carillonner

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To chime

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Fiable

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Reliable

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Precis

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Accurate

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4
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Une quinzaine

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A fortnight

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5
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Une année bissextile

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A leap year

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6
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Hivernal

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Wintry

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7
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Printanier

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Springlike

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Estival

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Summery

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Automnal

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Autumnal

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10
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Les heures creuses

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Off-peak Hours

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La haute saison

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High season

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12
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La basse saison

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The off season

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13
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Faire passer le temps

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To while away the Time

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14
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Le crépuscule (2)

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Dusk, Twilight

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Au petit matin

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In the small/early Hours

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Faiblement éclairée

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Dim

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17
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Un laps de temps

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A lapse of Time

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18
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Passer, s’écouler (2)

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Elapse, Go by

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Faire durer

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Protract

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20
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Écourter

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Curtail

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21
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Transitoire

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Transient

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22
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Se reproduire, revenir (event)

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To recur

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23
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Par intermittences

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On and off

24
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Par a-coup

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By fits and starts

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Exhumer
Dig out
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Déterrer
Dig up
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Un souvenir
A remembrance
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Un cadeau souvenir
A keepsake
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D'avance, au préalable
Beforehand
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Dans le vent
Trendy
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Prévoir
Foresee
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Présager
Foretell
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Imminent
Impending
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Un tout petit, un bambin
A toddler
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Un bouton (2)
A pimple. A spot
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Enfantin
Childlike
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Puéril, immature
Childish
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Naïf, crédule
Gullible
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Un grabataire
A bedridden invalid
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Atteindre un âge très avancée
Live to a ripe old age
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Retourner en enfance
Lapse into second childhood
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Être gâteux
To dote, be in ones dolge
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Agile, preste, ingambe
Able-bodied
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Invalide
Crippled
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Gâteux
Doddering, doting
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Le deuil, la perte
Be reavement
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La famille du défunt
The bereaved
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Le deuil
Mourning
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Les pompes funèbres
The undertaker
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Une couronne de fleurs
A wreath
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Agoniser
Be dying
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Rendre son dernier souvenir
Breathe one's last
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Éparpiller les cendres
Scatter the ashes
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Le désir ardent de
The longing for
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Une crème antirides
An anti-wrinkle cream
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Remonter une montre
To wind up a watch