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Volume 3 Flashcards

1
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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

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fleece, mane, abundant hair

the Golden Fleece

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émeutier

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rioter

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repenti (adj)

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regretful

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28
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une rosse

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nasty person

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29
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rosse (adj)

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nasty

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30
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une baltringue

Les professeurs à l’époche étaient des baltingues lâches et démagogiques.

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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.

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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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32
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épanouir

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to become bright

fulfill

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l’épanouissement

Une école doit se occuper du l’epanouissement de ses étudiants.

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development
blooming

A school should look after the development of its students.

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34
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renier

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to deny

renounce

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35
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une lacune

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gap

haitus

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36
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tremblotter

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to tremble

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37
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amputer

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to cut off

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38
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une épreuve

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ordeal
test
examination

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39
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se résumer

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to be reduced to

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40
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un éxposé

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talk

41
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prononcer

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to pronounce

utter

42
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insurger

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to rebel

revolt

43
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oral (adj)

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oral

44
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l’oral (m)

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oral examination

45
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un marronnier

A

chestnut tree

46
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un bachelier

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holder of a baccalaureate

47
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un salmigondis

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hodgepodge

48
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le brouillement

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confusion

49
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brouillon (adj)

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confused

50
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coutumier (adj)

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customary

51
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une garnison

c’est bien une question de tapette de garnison

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garrison

It’s indeed a question of sending in the troops. (?)

52
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affliger

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to sadden

aggrieve

53
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anémier

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to make someone anaemic

to weaken (figurative)

54
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s’anémier

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to become anaemic

to grow weak

55
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s’accrocher avec qqn

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to have a brush with someone

56
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un groupuscule

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a (very) small group

57
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dépaver

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to take up paving stones

58
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chlorer

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to chlorinate

59
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une échauffourée

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clash

brawl

60
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égailler
s’égailler

Les CRS chargeaient en troupeau, faisant s’égailler les manifestants.

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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.

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to ring
to make someone stagger (colloquial)

Staggered by the gas and the noise of the explosions, we regrouped in Joan of Arc square.

62
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une escarmouche

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skirmish

63
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l’affolement (m)

A

panic

64
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attenant (adj)

Aller savoir pourquoi, au lieu d’ enfuir dans les couloirs des rues attenantes…

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adjoining

Go figure why, instead of fleeing down the adjoining streets…

65
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étourdi

un groupe de militaires étourdis s’engagea dans une rue fréquéntée.

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scatterbrained

A group of scatterbrained soldiers entered a busy street.

66
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saccager

En lancant un pavé après pavé, la foule fâché a saccagé la batiment.

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to wreck
pillage

Throwing paver upon paver, the angry mob wrecked the building.

67
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plébisciter

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to elect/vote with a huge majority of support

68
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une grue

A

crane

69
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éclos (adj)

A

abloom

70
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une prêche

A

sermon

71
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jouter

A

to joust

duel

72
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négligemment

A

carelessly

nonchalantly

73
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la hantïse

Le service militaire, c’est mon hantïse.

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dread

Military service, that’s my dread.

74
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réfractaire à

Il était complètement réfractaire aux toutes insultes et railleries.

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resistant to

He was completely impervious to all insults and taunts.

75
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un réfractaire

Les réfractaires de conscience refusent de faire du service militaire.

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objector

The conscientious objectors refuse to do any military service.

76
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un emmerdement (vulgar slang)

En dépit d’être toujours juste, il était néanmois enorme emmerdement.

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pain in the ass

Despite being always right, he was nonetheless an enormous pain in the ass.

77
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rouiller

Quand le fer contacte l’air et le mouillure, il rouille rapidement.

A

to rust

When iron contacts air and moisture, it rusts quickly.

78
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un dadais (slang)

Vous n’êtes rien qu’espèce de grand dadais!

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oaf
clumsy youth

You’re nothing but a great oaf!

79
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cuirasser

A

to armour

to surround

80
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cuirassé (adj)

A

armour clad

81
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une cuirassé

A

battleship

82
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surajouter

se surajouter

A

to be added to

83
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écoeurer

A

to make one feel sick

84
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plâtreux (adj)

A

plastered

chalky

85
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les roustons (mp)

Le docteur a palpé les routons du candidat.

A

testicles
balls

The doctor felt the candidate’s balls.

86
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un toubib (slang)

A

doctor

quack

87
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soupeser

Le toubib est s’autorisé quelques plaisanteries au moment de soupeser nos organes reproducteurs

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to feel the weight of something by lifting

The quack allowed himself several jokes while testing the weight of our reproductive organs.

88
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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.

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fast

While following his fast, he spent the evening in his room instead of attending the meal in the canteen.

89
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un mouflon

A

type of mountain sheep

90
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un pédé (offensive slang)

A

homosexual

91
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une bleusaille

Toi bleusaille! Sur les pieds!

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rookie

You rookie! On your feet!

92
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se verrouiller

Quelque chose en moi, alors, se verrouilla; je me suis met en garde.

A

to lock oneself down

Something in me went into lockdown; I went on guard.

93
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palucher
se palucher

Qu’est-ce que tu nous fait-là? Tu veux te palucher tranquille, c’est ça?

A

to do by hand
masturbate

What are you doing for us there? You want to jerk off in peace, that’s it?

94
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un gradé

Ce gradé possédait un registre d’injures totalement inédités.

A

officer

This officer possessed a repertoire of insults completely new to my ears.

95
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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.

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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.

96
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un putain

A

fucker, whore

97
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putain de (adj)

A

fucking

98
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putain de merde (interjection)

A

fuck off

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