Voc 3 Flashcards by sixtine Dabée | Brainscape

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faire sécession

A

to secede from

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on ne peut pas avoir le beurre et l’argent du beurre

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you can have the cake and eat it

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a grandee

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a person of high rank = grand personnage, notable

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parfait exemple

A

to epistomize

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stiff

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raide, courbé, (a stiff card) crispé (corps)

she’s feeling stiff today (courbaturé)

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think to himself

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se dit

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they passed on indifferently

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il détourna le regard avec indifférence

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true to their nationality

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fidèle à leur nature de (pays)

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presently

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immédiatement

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animated

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animé, vivant

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spend three days in Stambul then

A

et j’ai passé alors 3 jours à Istanbul

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to inquire

A

se renseigner

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isn’t that rather a pity?

A

quel dommage, hein?

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I may say

A

permettez moi de vous dire

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he made a clumsy kind of little bow

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il inclina un peu le buste comme pour la saluer, d’un geste maladroit.

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to get a little kick out of that

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prendre un plaisir fou

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barrer la route

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to block off

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tomber par hasard sur qqch

rencontrer sur qq par hasard

A

to come across

to bump into

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faire apparaitre, faire ressurgir

A

to conjure

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comme si c’était hier

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as if it were yesterday

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photography

A

l’art de la photo

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a photograph

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a photo

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se souvenir de

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to recall, to recollect

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rappeler qqch à qqch

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to remind –> It reminds me of my childhood

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s’asseoir

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to sit down (car mouvement)

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être debout (statique)

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to stand

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passants

A

passers-by

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j’aimerais vraiment

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I do so

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Avec du recul

A

with hindsight, looking back, in retrospect

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leave ≠ let

A

leave + nom, adj

let + verbe

Q

hauteur

A

height

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not only

A

+ aux + sujet + verbe

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autre que

A

other than