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Regarder qqlun droit dans les yeux

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To look sb up in the eye

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Une quinzaine de jours

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A fortnight / 2 weeks

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Douzaine de qqlch

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Dozen smth ≠

Dozens of smt = several

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C’est du pareil au même ou C’est bonnet, blanc bonnet

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It’s six of one, half a dozen of other

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Très similaire, c’est du pareil au mm, presque pareils

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Much of a muchness

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To bode + well / ill

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Augurer , présager

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To wind

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Serpenter, faire des zigzags

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A winding road

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Une route sinueuse, en lacets, tortueuse

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Savvy

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Avoir la jugeote

Qqlun qui s’y connaît (souvent en suffix) : computer-savvy

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An evening that bodes ill

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An evening that doesn’t look to good

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Le capot de voiture

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Car hood

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A windshield

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Un pare-brise

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Flash

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Light from a torch = strong D/R light

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Flare

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D light : doesn’t last or sudden —> flame

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Glint

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R light : brief, light reflected on metal or glass

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Sparkle

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R light : tiny flash on an object

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Twinkle

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D light: soft / intermittent : star or eye

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Flinker

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From flame of a candle = unsteady

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Shimmer

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Soft wavering light, veil or haze —> blurred effect

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Scintillate

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Short flashes coming from an objet —> moves the in the light

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Shine

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General term that bright

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Blaze

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Very intense from fire

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Dazzle

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Blinding effect = strong light

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Glare

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Unpleasantly strong light —> sunshines

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Glimmer
A weak light behind a veil or a mist
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Gleam
Soft light through a haze : moon or reflect on dark polish / metallic surface —> luxury connotation
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Glisten
Reflect on a moist/wet surface
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Glow
Reddish/ orange light no flame
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Ember
Braise, charbon ardent
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A haze
Une brume, brouillar
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Unsteady
Instable
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Pitch black / dark
Le noir total / faire nuit noire
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To dust around
Épouster
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Le coffre de la voiture
Car trunk
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Les essuie-glace
Whipers
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All that glitters is not gold
Shakespeare: not everything that looks precious or true turns out to be so
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Turn out to be smth/sb
S’avérer être / devenir + nom
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Lire à la lumière d’une chandelle
Read by the light of a candle
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Enlighten smth /sb (about smth)
Éclairer (sur)
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Enlightenment
Les Lumières
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Ce n’est pas une lumière (savant)
It’s not the brightest spark
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Un camion GB / US
A lorry / a truck
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Pécheur/pécheresse
A sinner
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Très critique | Critiquer durement
Scathing | To scathe
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Malaise, inconfort
Unesayness
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Paroxystique
Climactic
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Evec véhémence, passionnément
Vehemently
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Un procès
A trial
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Célibat / vie de femme célibataire
Spinsterhoof
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Inculpation
Indictment
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Être inculper
Be indict
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Faire-valoir
Foil
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Décliner, décroître
To wane
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Un déclin, une déminution
A wane
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Croître
To wax
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Devenir + adj To wax ecstatic
Wax + adj S’extasier
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Morceau de bravour
Purple patches
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En plus, (in addition as well)
To boot
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Un bourgeon
A bud
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Glousser Gloussement
To cackle Cackle
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Grandiloquent
Bombastic
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Etre au courant
To be in the know
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Etre ahuri, époustouflé, ébahi
To be flabbersgasted
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Aboasourdir / époustoufler qqlcun
Flabbergast smb
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Sin
Péché
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Guilt
La culpabilité, le sentiment
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Affair
Liaison, aventure
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Revered
Révéré = vénéré, admiré
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Consensual
Consensuel, consenti (sexe) : involving mutual agreement
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Strife-ridden
Conflit sur conflit, accablé
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To be at the end of one's tether
Être au bout du rouleau
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To say smth at the top of one's voice
Dire à tu tête
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Higher speech voice
I
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Droits de douane
Custums duties
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Treaties
Des traités
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La Manche
The Channel
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Une émeute
a riot
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Des émeutiers
Riders
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Sacager, piller
Ransack smth
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Se réconciller
Reconcile
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Blessure, plaie
Wound
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Se soumettre aux règles
To comply with rules
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Etre apparenté à
Be akin to
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Un âme soeur
Soulmate | Kindred spirit

Anglais (4 decks)

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