VOC THOREAU Flashcards by Isée 🐙 | Brainscape

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biner (remuer la terre pour l’aérer ou la désherber)

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to hoe

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psaume

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psalm

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to strew

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éparpiller, disperser

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pout

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tacaud (poisson)

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rivage

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shore

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to prowl

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rôder

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squirming

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tortillement / qui se tortille

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coup sec / sursaut

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jerk

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à peine

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scarcely

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perennial

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vivace (pour les plantes)

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prendre (des couleurs, du vin…)

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to partake of; to partake of the color…

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horned pout

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barbotte brune

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superflu

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superfluous

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mannifeste

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manifesto

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ce est dit clairement

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as plainly stated

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communier avec

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to commune with

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appréhender, comprendre

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to apprehend

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friser le paradoxe

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to verge on paradox

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caractère évasif / complexité

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elusiveness

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de manière évidente

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prominently

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apparaître fréquemment

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to recur repeatedly

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des descriptions géologiques et topographiques

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geological and topographical description

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cartographie

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mapping

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un changement de perspective

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a shift in perspective

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être centré autour de

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to revolve around

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un mouvement anthropocentrique

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an anthropocentric movement

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un rôle crucial

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a pivotal position

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réprimer, maîtriser

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to subdue

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s’articuler autour

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to articulate around

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néanmoins

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nonetheless

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ironiquement, avec ironie

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wryly

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subtil

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subtle

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un dépassement de frontières

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blurring of boundaries

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un usage abondant

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a lavish use

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un langage anthropomorphique

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an anthropomorphic language

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graveyard

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cimetière

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rejeter, abandonner

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to discard

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doter (qqn) de (qqch)

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to endow (sb) with (sth)

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déchiffrer

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to decipher

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purification

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cleansing

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entrainer, causer

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to entail

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vierge, pure

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unsailed

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apporter, fournir

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to render

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retentissant, éclatant

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resounding

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contraindre

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to compel

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réfléchir à

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ponder on

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cosmogonie

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cosmogony

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parabole

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parable

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fusionner

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to merge

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impliquer, entrainer

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to entail

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échapper à

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to elude

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promulguer

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enact

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être contrebalancé par

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to be counterbalanced by

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microcosme / macrocosme

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microcosm / macrocosm

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intemporel

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a-temporal

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préparer le terrain pour

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pave the way for

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interaction

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interplay

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possessivité

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possessiveness

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attester de

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bear evidence to

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marque

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streak

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entremêlement

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intermingling

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lier

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weave together

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incompréhensible

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ungraspable

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cela est vu à travers un prisme

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this is viewed through a prism

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ce qui se démarque

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what standout

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au dessus de notre portée

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beyond our reach

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numineux, sacré

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numinous

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se répandre

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to radiate