Translation 1-3 vocab

Question 1

Une tourelle

Answer 1

A turret / tower

Question 2

Semblables

Answer 2

Similar

Question 3

Un puit

Answer 3

A well

Question 4

Étirer

Answer 4

To stretch

Question 5

Les voiliers

Answer 5

Sailing boats

Question 6

Un convois

Answer 6

A convoy

Question 7

Tandis que

Answer 7

While / whilst

Question 8

La boue

Answer 8

The mud

Question 9

Blanchie

Answer 9

Bleached

Question 10

Les entrepôts

Answer 10

Warehouses

Question 11

Rougoiement

Answer 11

Red glow

Question 12

Les aciéries

Answer 12

Steelworks

Question 13

Un hangar

Answer 13

A warehouse / storage building

Question 14

Vide

Answer 14

Empty

Question 15

Tricoter

Answer 15

To knit

Question 16

Rayures

Answer 16

Stripes

Question 17

Un tissage

Answer 17

weave

Question 18

S’étaler

Answer 18

To spread

Question 19

Un crâne

Answer 19

A skull

Question 20

Méfier

Answer 20

To be suspicious of

Question 21

Percolateur

Answer 21

Coffee machine

Question 22

Une assiette

Answer 22

A plate

Question 23

Écraser

Answer 23

To crush / flatten

Question 24

Une blatte

Answer 24

A cockroach

Question 25

L’homme était vêtu d’un pullover tricoté à la main, à rayures jaunes et rouges, sous un
imperméable en feuille plastique souple, opaque, avec des côtes impressionnées imitant un tissage
de gabardine.

Answer 25

The man was wearing a hand-knitted jumper, with red and yellow stripes, beneath a mackintosh made of soft, coloured plastic, with embossed seams in imitation of raincoat material

Question 26

L’homme regarda longuement ces
dessins. Il aimait les images des choses, il y était plus sensible qu’à leurs noms, depuis la veille qu’à
leur prix

Answer 26

The man looked for some time at these
pictures. He liked pictures of things. They meant more to him than their names, and – since the day
before – more than their prices.

Question 27

Comme chaque matin après avoir acheté le pain, je m’arrête à hauteur des entrepôts Gerson,
fasciné par le rougeoiement des aciéries Phönix dont les dizaines de cheminées effilées tracent
comme des barreaux sur un horizon de plomb.

Answer 27

After buying the bread, I stop, as I do every morning, beside the Gerson plant,
fascinated by the ruddy glow of the Phönix steelworks, where dozens of tapered turrets stand out
like bars against a leaden horizon.

Question 28

par centaines, les voiliers, les vapeurs glissent en silence tandis que des convois interminables tirés par
des locomotives accolées font trembler les arcades ajourées du pont de fer.

Answer 28

hundreds of sailboats
and steamer glide past in silence while the fretwork arches of the iron bridge rattle under endless
convoys of trucks propelled by multiple locomotives.

Question 29

Il aurait pu marcher les yeux fermés le long des allées. Là, c’était le puits et les fausses ruines
romaines, et la grande pelouse taillée à l’anglaise qui contrastait avec les pins parasols et les
lauriers-roses

Answer 29

He could have walked blindfold through the alleys. There was the well and the Roman folly, and
the large lawn cut in the English way, which contrasted with the umbrella pines and the oleander
bushes.

Question 30

Il avait la désagréable impression de revenir au point de départ, sur les lieux de son
enfance pour laquelle il n’éprouvait aucune tendresse, et de sentir la présence invisible de sa mère,
alors qu’il avait réussi à oublier cette malheureuse

Answer 30

He had the unpleasant feeling that he was coming back to where he had started, to the
places of his childhood, for which he felt no affection, and that he could sense the invisible presence
of his mother, now that he had managed to forget about that wretched woman

Question 31

étonné

Answer 31

Surprised