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Volume 2 Flashcards

1
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rassasier

A

to satisfy, sate (a voracious appetite)

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Ça peut pas ne pas marcher.

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That can’t not happen.

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raidir

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to stiffen

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ébouriffer

…pour ébouriffer sa chevelure

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to tousle, ruffle

…to tousle his hair

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une chevelure

une abondante chevelure bouclée

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hair

a mass of curly hair

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humecter

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to dampen

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un vaisselier

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dresser

buffet

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nacre

les boutons en nacre

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mother of pearl

pearl buttons

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c’était au moment où…

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It was the moment when…

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une tignasse

A

wig

mop of hair (colloquial)

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scruter

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scrutinize

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rutiler

A

to glow, gleam

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un cachet

A

stamp
seal
tablet (pill)
fee

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14
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approuver

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to approve

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15
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accroupir

A

to squat, crouch, bend down

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16
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une alliance

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alliance
marriage
wedding ring

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17
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le ménagement

A

consideration, respectfulness

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18
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Parce que si ça tenait qu’à moi…

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Because if it was up to me…

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un sillon

A

furrow, groove, row

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amouracher (perjorative)

s’amouracher de

A

to become enamoured with

to become infatuated with

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21
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overbooké (adj)

A

overbooked

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22
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susurrer

A

whisper

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23
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dans ton dos

jouer dans ton dos

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behind your back

to play around behind your back

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autour de

autour du petit établi (établi = établissement)

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around

around the premises

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une fournaise

Dans le cabanon au fond du jardin, c’est déjà de la fournaise

A

blaze, flame
sweltering heat
oven

In the shed at the bottom of the garden, it’s already sweltering.

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tous les coups sont permis

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no holds barred

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27
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tous les coins et les recoins

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every nook and cranny

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28
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le souffle

A

breath

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29
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écailler

A

to scale, shell, chip away

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30
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écaillé (adj)

A

flaking

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31
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un amas

A

heap, pile

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32
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un guéridon

A

pedestal table

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33
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détonner

détonner au milieu de

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to jar

to be out of place among

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34
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le salaud (derogatory slang)

A

bastard

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35
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un cabanon

A

cottage
shed
hut

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36
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le butin

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booty, spoils

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37
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brasser

il brasse des millions

A

to brew (beer)
to shuffle around (papers etc)
to blow about (leaves)

He handles big money

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38
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l’en-tête

A

header

logo that appears on every page of a document

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39
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dédaigner

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to disdain

40
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dédaigneusement

A

disdainfully

41
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escrimer

s’escrimer à faire… (colloquial)

A

to fight

to knock one’s self out to…

42
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bedonnant (adj)

A

pot-bellied

43
Q

un accoudoir

A

arm-rest

44
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la morgue

A

morgue

arrogance

45
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attiser

A

to fuel
stir up
inflame

46
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une braise

A

ember

47
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un tison

A

a (fire)brand, poker

48
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une escalope (f?)

A

cutlet, thin slice of meat

49
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un rubis

payer rubis sur l’ongle (idiom)

A

ruby

to pay cash on the nail

50
Q

un môme (colloquial)

A

kid, brat

51
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une crapule

A

villain, crook

52
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gémir

A

to moan, groan, whine

53
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endiguer

A

to stem, curb, hold back

54
Q

L’avion atterrit avec neuf minutes de retard sur l’heure prévu

A

The plane lands nine minutes later than the scheduled time.

55
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le livre de bord

A

log book (for an aircraft)

56
Q

la soute

A

hold, baggage compartment

57
Q

le fret

A

freight

58
Q

une passerelle

A

a gangway
footbridge
interconnection between two computers

59
Q

la rousse (slang)

A

the fuzz, cops

60
Q

un croquis

A

sketch

61
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diluvien (adj)

sous une pluie diluvienne

A

torrential

under a torrential rainstorm

62
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la cupidité

A

cupidity, greed, avarice

63
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une attirance

A

an attraction, affinity, allurement

64
Q

prendre qqn en filature (colloquial)

A

to tail someone

65
Q

éventrer

A

to disembowel

66
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joncher

A

to strew, litter

67
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une imprimante à aiguilles

A

a dot matrix printer

68
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épousseter

A

to dust

69
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maculer de

A

to smudge with

70
Q

cambrer

cambrer les reins
cambrer les dos

se cambrer

A

to arch

to arch one’s back

to arch one’s back

71
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s’estomper

A

to become blurred

72
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C’est chacune pour soi!

A

It’s everyone for herself.

73
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tapisser

A

to upholster, cover

to carpet

74
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un chiffon

A

rag, cloth

75
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arborer

A

to sport, wear

76
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une casquette

A

cap

77
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ôter de

ôter tes pieds du fauteuil

A

to remove

Take your feet off the chair.

78
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renfrogner

se renfrogner

A

to scowl, frown

to become sullen

79
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un chantier

A

a worksite

80
Q

les gravats (mp)

A

rubble

81
Q

rire au nez de qqn

A

to laugh in someone’s face

82
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échafauder

A

to put a plan together

83
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imbriquer

A

to fit into, to overlap

84
Q

en dessous

A

underneath

85
Q

une bréloque

A

charm, trinket

86
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une mémère (colloquial)

A

granny

87
Q

une ardoise

toit d’ardoises

A

slate

slate roof

88
Q

fourbir

A

to polish

89
Q

un/une énergumène

A

oddball

fanatic

90
Q

se plier en quatre (idiom)

A

bend over backwards

91
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hébété (adj)

A

stunned

92
Q

frôler

A

to brush against

93
Q

une trombe

en trombe

Il démarre en trombe

A

waterspout, whirlwind

hurtling off

He starts, hurtling off.

94
Q

lancinant (adj)

A

throbbing

95
Q

un flot

A

flood, stream

influx, rise

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