Vocabulary 09.25.18 Flashcards

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1
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tard le soir

A

late at night

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Les peintres primitifs bavardaient avec les marchandes de mangues et d’avocats au coin des rues poussiéreuses.

A

Primitive painters were chatting with mango and avocado street vendors on dusty street corners.

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Le banditisme semblait reculer d’un pas (3).

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Crime seemed to be decreasing one notch / to be on the wane / to be going down.

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comme (qqch, un lieu…) (2)

A

like / such as

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Le crime n’était plus toléré (2) par une population exténuée qui a tout connu durant ce dernier demi-siècle.

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Crime was no longer accepted / tolerated by an exhausted population who has known everything over the past fifty years.

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héréditaire (adj)

A

hereditary

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coup d’état

A

coup

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les cyclones à répétition, les inondations dévastatrices et les kidnapping (2) à l’aveuglette.

A

series of cyclones, devastating floods and random abductions / kidnappings

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9
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littéraire (adj)

A

literary

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…qui devait réunir des écrivains venant d’un peu partout dans le monde.

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…which was to gather writers from all over the world.

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Alors que j’étais par terre, je pensais aux films catastrophe, me demandant si la terre allait s’ouvrir et nous engloutir tous. C’était la terreur de mon enfance.

A

While I was on the floor, I was thinking of disaster films, wondering if the earth would open and we would swallow all. It was the terror of my childhood.

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On s’est réfugié sur le terrain de tennis de l’hôtel.

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We took refuge on the tennis court of the hotel.

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13
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des cris (2)

A

shoutings / screams

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On dit en Haïti que tant qu’on a pas hurlé, il n’y a pas de morts.

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It is said in Haiti that as long as we have not screamed, there is no death.

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crier

A

shout

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une branche

A

a branch

17
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J’entends encore ce silence.

A

I still hear this silence.