Unit 2 Flashcards
The opponent, rival or the opposition
L’opposant (nm)
A marked (or clear) preference for
Une nette préférence pour
A representative, a delegate
Un délégué (nm)
An aside, a private conversation.
Un aparté
To annoy, to hassle, to bother
Embêter
To get bored
s’embêter
Satisfaction
Contentement
Frankly, honestly
Franchement
To disembark, to land
Débarquer
To cease being bored
Désennuyer
To believe yourself (to be…)
To take yourself for…
se prendre
To pacify
Apaiser
To choke, to strangle, to throttle
Étrangler
A gap, a breach, a hole
Une brèche
support
membership
L’adhésion
Consent
Agreement
L’assentiment (nm)
To go (his/their/it's) own way To do (his/their/it's) own thing
Faire bande à part
eg C’est la vérité qu’elles font bande à part.
To scowl
To frown
se renfrogner
It goes without saying
Il va de soi
Tens of years
Les decennies
To favour
Favoriser
Faced with
Face à
To get to know
Faire la connaissance de
One of their….
L’un de leur(s)
A basic/fundamental question
Une question fondomentale
To have the opportunity/ occasion to…
Avoir l’opportunite de…..
A child - slang in Lyon
Un gone - dans l’argot Lyonnaise
On reaching
On arriving at
En abordant
To find yourself in
To fall into
To place yourself
To fit into
s’inscrire
To write, to inscribe, to engrave
To draw
To register, to enrol
Inscrire
To become aware of …
Prendre conscience de
To tell, to relate
Raconteur
A turning point
A bend
Un tournant
A hoola hoop
Un cerceaux
To make yourself (feel etc)
To give way, to give in, to surrender
se rendre
To cause
To result in
Entraîner
Attached to (physically or emotionally)
Attaché á
Even
Même
Voire
To feel
Ressentir
Piss off
Bugger off
Casse-toi
To order
To prescribe
Ordonner
À genius
Un génie
To withdraw
To retreat
Retirer
On tiptoe
Sur la pointe des pieds
Scornful
Despising
Méprisant
Suspect
Imagine
Douter
To make up, to create, to form
Former
Duty
Homework
Devoir
Ready made
Tout fait(e)
Any
Ordinary. Adj
Quelconque
So called
Supposed
Prétendu(e)
Ignorant
Inculte
The faithful, the believer
Le fidèle
Faith
Foi
Weighed down
Accablé(e)
Overwork
L’excès du travail
Think about it!
Réfléchissez-y
A hurtful name for an Arab
Un bijou
From the start
Right from the beginning
D’entrée de jeu
Interpenetration, mutual penetration
Interpénétration
In a different way
de manière différente
In another era, long ago
Jadis
Rather
Plutôt
More and more citizens..
de plus en plus de citoyens..
Multiple identities
Les identités plurielles
Apparently contradictory
Apparemment contradictoire(s)
To take into account
Prendre en compte
Differentiated
To differentiate
Differencié(e)
se différencier
while remaining loyal to
en restant fidèle à
a principle
un principe
egalitarian
Égalitaire
Secular
Laïque
all the while
by continuing
tout en continuant
An hijab
Un foulard islamique
To call out, to shout out to, to hail
To stop, to question
To call to mind
To take in for questioning
Interpeller
The feeling of belonging to a country
Le sentiment d’appartenir à une nation
To rest (as in an idea)
Reposer
to belong to
adhérer à
The future
le devenir (nm)
To stand out from
se detacher de
The gable (end)
le pignon
Imposing
Imposante
Affecting
Retentissant(e)(s)
A handful
Une poignée
Dreadful
Funeste
To cross, to interbreed
To run into sb
Croiser
Se croiser
To torment
Tourmenter
To find yourself (in)
To see yourself in (sb)
Se retrouver
For ever
á jamais
To go down in history
Faire date
The neighbouring family
La famille voisine
Living (at)
Demeurant
Secretly
Clandestinement
To go back to
To meet (sb)
To go somewhere (inferring to go back)
Rejoindre
To spare (sb)
Épargner
A settling of accounts
Un règlement de comptes
A wasps nest
Un guêpier
