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1
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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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6
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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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11
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Le capot de voiture

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Car hood

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12
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A windshield

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Un pare-brise

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13
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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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17
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Twinkle

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D light: soft / intermittent : star or eye

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18
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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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21
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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

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A weak light behind a veil or a mist

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Gleam

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Soft light through a haze : moon or reflect on dark polish / metallic surface —> luxury connotation

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27
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Glisten

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Reflect on a moist/wet surface

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Glow

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Reddish/ orange light no flame

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29
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Ember

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Braise, charbon ardent

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30
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A haze

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Une brume, brouillar

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31
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Unsteady

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Instable

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32
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Pitch black / dark

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Le noir total / faire nuit noire

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33
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To dust around

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Épouster

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34
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Le coffre de la voiture

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Car trunk

35
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Les essuie-glace

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Whipers

36
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All that glitters is not gold

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Shakespeare: not everything that looks precious or true turns out to be so

37
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Turn out to be smth/sb

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S’avérer être / devenir + nom

38
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Lire à la lumière d’une chandelle

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Read by the light of a candle

39
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Enlighten smth /sb (about smth)

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Éclairer (sur)

40
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Enlightenment

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Les Lumières

41
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Ce n’est pas une lumière (savant)

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It’s not the brightest spark

42
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Un camion GB / US

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A lorry / a truck

43
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Pécheur/pécheresse

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A sinner

44
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Très critique

Critiquer durement

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Scathing

To scathe

45
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Malaise, inconfort

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Unesayness

46
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Paroxystique

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Climactic

47
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Evec véhémence, passionnément

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Vehemently

48
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Un procès

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A trial

49
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Célibat / vie de femme célibataire

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Spinsterhoof

50
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Inculpation

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Indictment

51
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Être inculper

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Be indict

52
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Faire-valoir

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Foil

53
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Décliner, décroître

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To wane

54
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Un déclin, une déminution

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A wane

55
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Croître

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To wax

56
Q

Devenir + adj

To wax ecstatic

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Wax + adj

S’extasier

57
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Morceau de bravour

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Purple patches

58
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En plus, (in addition as well)

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To boot

59
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Un bourgeon

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A bud

60
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Glousser

Gloussement

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To cackle

Cackle

61
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Grandiloquent

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Bombastic

62
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Etre au courant

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To be in the know

63
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Etre ahuri, époustouflé, ébahi

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To be flabbersgasted

64
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Aboasourdir / époustoufler qqlcun

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Flabbergast smb

65
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Sin

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Péché

66
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Guilt

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La culpabilité, le sentiment

67
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Affair

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Liaison, aventure

68
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Revered

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Révéré = vénéré, admiré

69
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Consensual

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Consensuel, consenti (sexe) : involving mutual agreement

70
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Strife-ridden

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Conflit sur conflit, accablé

71
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To be at the end of one’s tether

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Être au bout du rouleau

72
Q

To say smth at the top of one’s voice

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Dire à tu tête

73
Q

Higher speech voice

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I

74
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Droits de douane

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Custums duties

75
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Treaties

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Des traités

76
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La Manche

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The Channel

77
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Une émeute

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a riot

78
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Des émeutiers

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Riders

79
Q

Sacager, piller

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Ransack smth

80
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Se réconciller

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Reconcile

81
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Blessure, plaie

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Wound

82
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Se soumettre aux règles

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To comply with rules

83
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Etre apparenté à

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Be akin to

84
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Un âme soeur

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Soulmate

Kindred spirit

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