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Volume 3 Flashcards

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l’aisance (f)

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ease

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se donner à fond

L’aisance, c’est de n’être jamais contraint de se donner à fond.

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to give everything you’ve got

Ease, is when you never have to give everything you’ve got.

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un cliché

Elle m’a envoyé un cliché de son chien.

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snapshot

She sent me a snapshot of her dog.

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sous-entendre

Je suis m’éloingné, avec tous ce que ça a sous-entendu.

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to imply

I moved away, with all that implied.

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tinter

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ring

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fringant (adj)

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dashing

spirited

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désinvolte (adj)

Malgré son importance, il se comport en manière désinvolte.

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casual

Despite his importance, he behaved in a casual manner.

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instruire

s’instruire

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to instruct
educate
teach

to learn

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l’édification (f)

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moral guidance

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sourdre

Partout dans le monde occidental sourdait un courant de rebellion.

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to rise up

Everywhere in the western world a current of rebellion was rising up.

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fantasque (adj)

Ce ton de sédition, d’abord fantasque, sortait de nos vies minuscules et accablantes.

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fanciful

This tone of sedition, at first fanciful, came out of our small oppressed lives.

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balbutiant (adj)

Le prise de conscience politique demeurait encore balbutiante, mais beaucoup changait.

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stammering

The grip of political conscience was still stammering, but much was changing.

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avide (adj)

Les jeunes étaient avides pour le changement.

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eager

The young were eager for change.

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une épopée

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epic

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ambitionner de

il ambitionne d’apprendre le français

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to aspire

He aspires to learn French.

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l’entraînement

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training

coaching

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borné (adj)

Les gens ambitionnaient de mener les vies libérés des normes bornées forgés dans la rigueur de l’après-guerre.

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narrow minded

People sought to lead lives free from the narrow-minded normes forged in the rigid post war period.

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la suffisance

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arrogance

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le moisi

le moisi des écoles

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mold

the mold of the schools

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névrotiuque (adj)

névrosé

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neurotic

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le goupillon

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bottle brush

holy water sprinkler (religion)

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le sillage

La grande mass suivait le sillage des gens les plus forts.

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wake

The masses followed in the wake of the strongest people.

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solennel (adj)

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solemn

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solennellement

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solemnly

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la toison la Toison d’or
fleece, mane, abundant hair the Golden Fleece
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émeutier
rioter
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repenti (adj)
regretful
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une rosse
nasty person
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rosse (adj)
nasty
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une baltringue Les professeurs à l’époche étaient des baltingues lâches et démagogiques.
snitch coward The teachers at the time were cowardly snitches and demagogue.
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le tri Je voyais les écoles commes des centres de tri, chargés de remplir les usines et bureaux du pays.
sorting, sorting out I saw schools as centers for sorting out, charged with filling the factories and offices of the country.
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épanouir
to become bright | fulfill
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l’épanouissement Une école doit se occuper du l’epanouissement de ses étudiants.
development blooming A school should look after the development of its students.
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renier
to deny | renounce
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une lacune
gap | haitus
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tremblotter
to tremble
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amputer
to cut off
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une épreuve
ordeal test examination
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se résumer
to be reduced to
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un éxposé
talk
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prononcer
to pronounce | utter
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insurger
to rebel | revolt
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oral (adj)
oral
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l’oral (m)
oral examination
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un marronnier
chestnut tree
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un bachelier
holder of a baccalaureate
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un salmigondis
hodgepodge
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le brouillement
confusion
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brouillon (adj)
confused
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coutumier (adj)
customary
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une garnison c’est bien une question de tapette de garnison
garrison It’s indeed a question of sending in the troops. (?)
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affliger
to sadden | aggrieve
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anémier
to make someone anaemic to weaken (figurative)
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s’anémier
to become anaemic | to grow weak
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s’accrocher avec qqn
to have a brush with someone
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un groupuscule
a (very) small group
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dépaver
to take up paving stones
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chlorer
to chlorinate
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une échauffourée
clash | brawl
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égailler s’égailler Les CRS chargeaient en troupeau, faisant s’égailler les manifestants.
to disperse The CRS (Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité) charged in unison to disperse the protestors.
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sonner Sonné par le gaz et le bruit des explosions, nous nous étions regroupés vers la place Jeanne-d’Arc.
to ring to make someone stagger (colloquial) Staggered by the gas and the noise of the explosions, we regrouped in Joan of Arc square.
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une escarmouche
skirmish
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l’affolement (m)
panic
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attenant (adj) Aller savoir pourquoi, au lieu d’ enfuir dans les couloirs des rues attenantes...
adjoining Go figure why, instead of fleeing down the adjoining streets...
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étourdi un groupe de militaires étourdis s’engagea dans une rue fréquéntée.
scatterbrained A group of scatterbrained soldiers entered a busy street.
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saccager En lancant un pavé après pavé, la foule fâché a saccagé la batiment.
to wreck pillage Throwing paver upon paver, the angry mob wrecked the building.
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plébisciter
to elect/vote with a huge majority of support
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une grue
crane
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éclos (adj)
abloom
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une prêche
sermon
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jouter
to joust | duel
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négligemment
carelessly | nonchalantly
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la hantïse Le service militaire, c’est mon hantïse.
dread Military service, that’s my dread.
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réfractaire à Il était complètement réfractaire aux toutes insultes et railleries.
resistant to He was completely impervious to all insults and taunts.
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un réfractaire Les réfractaires de conscience refusent de faire du service militaire.
objector The conscientious objectors refuse to do any military service.
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un emmerdement (vulgar slang) En dépit d’être toujours juste, il était néanmois enorme emmerdement.
pain in the ass Despite being always right, he was nonetheless an enormous pain in the ass.
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rouiller Quand le fer contacte l’air et le mouillure, il rouille rapidement.
to rust When iron contacts air and moisture, it rusts quickly.
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un dadais (slang) Vous n’êtes rien qu’espèce de grand dadais!
oaf clumsy youth You’re nothing but a great oaf!
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cuirasser
to armour | to surround
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cuirassé (adj)
armour clad
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une cuirassé
battleship
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surajouter | se surajouter
to be added to
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écoeurer
to make one feel sick
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plâtreux (adj)
plastered | chalky
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les roustons (mp) Le docteur a palpé les routons du candidat.
testicles balls The doctor felt the candidate’s balls.
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un toubib (slang)
doctor | quack
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soupeser Le toubib est s’autorisé quelques plaisanteries au moment de soupeser nos organes reproducteurs
to feel the weight of something by lifting The quack allowed himself several jokes while testing the weight of our reproductive organs.
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le jeûne En poursuivant son jeûne, il a passé le soir dans sa chambre au lieu d’assiter au repas dans la cantine.
fast While following his fast, he spent the evening in his room instead of attending the meal in the canteen.
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un mouflon
type of mountain sheep
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un pédé (offensive slang)
homosexual
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une bleusaille Toi bleusaille! Sur les pieds!
rookie You rookie! On your feet!
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se verrouiller Quelque chose en moi, alors, se verrouilla; je me suis met en garde.
to lock oneself down Something in me went into lockdown; I went on guard.
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palucher se palucher Qu’est-ce que tu nous fait-là? Tu veux te palucher tranquille, c’est ça?
to do by hand masturbate What are you doing for us there? You want to jerk off in peace, that’s it?
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un gradé Ce gradé possédait un registre d’injures totalement inédités.
officer This officer possessed a repertoire of insults completely new to my ears.
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une tafiole (offensive slang) Mais tu sais que t’es une tafiole de concours toi! Espèce de succeur de bidet de merde, je vais te le faire descendre de son lit.
homosexual But you know you’re a fiesty homo you are! Type that sucks bidets full of shit, I’m going to make you come down from your bed.
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un putain
fucker, whore
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putain de (adj)
fucking
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putain de merde (interjection)
fuck off

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