Time And Human Life Flashcards by Loris Junod | Brainscape

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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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Une quinzaine

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A fortnight

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Une année bissextile

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A leap year

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Hivernal

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Wintry

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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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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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La basse saison

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The off season

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Faire passer le temps

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To while away the Time

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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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Un laps de temps

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A lapse of Time

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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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Écourter

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Curtail

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Transitoire

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Transient

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Se reproduire, revenir (event)

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To recur

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Par intermittences

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On and off

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Par a-coup

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By fits and starts

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Exhumer

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Dig out

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Déterrer

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Dig up

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Un souvenir

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A remembrance

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Un cadeau souvenir

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A keepsake

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D’avance, au préalable

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Beforehand

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Dans le vent

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Trendy

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Prévoir

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Foresee

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Présager

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Foretell

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Imminent

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Impending

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Un tout petit, un bambin

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A toddler

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Un bouton (2)

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A pimple. A spot

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Enfantin

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Childlike

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Puéril, immature

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Childish

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Naïf, crédule

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Gullible

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Un grabataire

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A bedridden invalid

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Atteindre un âge très avancée

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Live to a ripe old age

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Retourner en enfance

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Lapse into second childhood

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Être gâteux

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To dote, be in ones dolge

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Agile, preste, ingambe

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Able-bodied

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Invalide

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Crippled

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Gâteux

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Doddering, doting

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Le deuil, la perte

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Be reavement

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La famille du défunt

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The bereaved

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Le deuil

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Mourning

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Les pompes funèbres

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The undertaker

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Une couronne de fleurs

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A wreath

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Agoniser

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Be dying

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Rendre son dernier souvenir

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Breathe one’s last

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Éparpiller les cendres

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Scatter the ashes

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Le désir ardent de

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The longing for

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Une crème antirides

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An anti-wrinkle cream

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Remonter une montre

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To wind up a watch