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Volume 4 Flashcards

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merder (slang)

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to fuck up

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un sac à merde (offensive slang)

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shit bag

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asséner

il m’asséna une lourde gifle de plat de main qui m’envoya rouler au bord d’escalier.

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to thump
strike

He struck me a heavy slap with the flat of this hand which sent me rolling to the edge of the stairs.

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dévaler

Le gradé me poussa vers les marches que je dévalai à la façon d’un mauvais cascadeur.

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to glide
hurtle

The officer pushed me toward the steps that I hurtled down as if I was a bad stuntman.

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un cascadeur

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stuntman

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une arcade

arcade sourcilière

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arcade, bridge
bridge of the nose

arch of the eyebrow

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meurtrir

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to bruise, injure

compare with meurtre, to murder

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cisailler

Deux côtes cassées me cisaillaient les flancs.

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clip
shear off

Two cracked ribs sheared my sides. (?)

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un tringleur (offensive slang)

espèce de tringleur de chèvre

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fucker

goat fucker

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un bourreau

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executioner

tormentor

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un port

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bearing, carriage

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altier (adj)

un port altier

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haughty
snobbish

a snobbish demeanour

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glabre (adj)

un visage glabre

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clean-shaven

a clean-shaven face

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navré (adj)

Monsieur Blick, croyez bien que je suis navré de ce qui c’est passé hier soir.

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upset
concerned

Mr. Blick, believe me that I am upset by what happened last evening.

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avéré (adj)

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acknowledged

recognized

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les débordements (mp)

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excesses

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gâcher

Ne gâcher pas notre rencontre en adoptant une attitude agressive et par trop intransigeante.

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to spoil

Don’t spoil our meeting by adopting an aggresive attitude and by being intransigent.

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aléatoire (adj)

une condamnation de cette sorte-ci—toujours bien aléatoire—ne vous exonérerait pas pour autant de service national.

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hazardous

A condemnation of this sort here—always risky—would not exonerate you from national service.

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un barème

un barème des prix

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marking scheme/scale

price list

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forfaitaire (ad)

prix forfaitaire

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inclusive

all inclusive price

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rosser (informal)

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to give someone a good thrashing

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chevaleresque (adj)

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chivalrous

gentlemanly

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gérer

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to manage

direct

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un forgeron

C’est en forgeant qu’on devient forgeron. (Idiom)

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blacksmith

Practice makes perfect.

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les lacets (mp) route en lacets
hairpin bend road with sharp bends
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roborative (adj)
fortifying
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prôner
to exalt | glorify
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la guise à votre guise en guise de
peference liking just as you like by way of
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ébattre
frolic
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ébats (mp)
frolics | movements (sport)
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une charpente
structure framework skeleton
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charpenté (adj) Marie était magnifiquement charpentée
structured Marie was magnificently put together.
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un haltère
barbell | dumbbell
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la mansuétude Comme à son habitude, il fit preuve de délicatesse et de mansuétude, réglant le problème d’un façon définitif.
indulgence As was her way, it showed delicacy and indulgence, solving the problem in a difinitive manner.
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le mollet
calf muscle
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enduire de Elle lissait les jambes comme si elle les enduisait d’un onguent.
to coat with She smoothed her legs as if she was putting an ointment on them.
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l’écartement de voie
the guage of the rails (trains)
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un short en short
shorts (pants) in shorts
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un davier
davit (marine)
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les embruns (mp) Parfois, face aux embruns, quand elle prenait une profonde inspiration, on aurait dit qu’elle voulait emmagasiner toutes les force de cette nature bouilonnante.
sea foam Sometimes, with the sea foam in her face, when she had a deep inspiration, one would have said that she wanted to store up all the force of this boiling nature.
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emmagasiner
to stock up | store
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arrimer arrimer qqc sur qqc arrimer à
to stow lash up to fasten something to something to dock with
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une vigie
lookout, watchman
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cocasse (adj)
comical
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étancher
make waterproof
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un désappointement
disappointment
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envaser | s’envaser
to silt up
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un rugissement pousser un rugissement
blast roaring to roar
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truquer j’ai truqué les resultats d’enquête.
to rig fake I rigged the results of the enquiry.
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échiner | s’échiner
to make a great effort
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la lâcheté
cowardice
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la majoration
increase
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défraîchir
to wilt | wither
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la veue
arrival
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conséquent
substantial
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les produits haut de gamme
high end products
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la gésine en train de gésine
birthing being born
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enluminer
to illuminate
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réconfortant (adj)
comforting
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réconforter
to comfort | solace
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la armure
armour
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prémices (fp)
beginnings
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grisant (adj)
intoxicating | exhilarating
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une équerre
square | triangle
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l’échancrure (f?)
revealing neckline
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un rejeton (informal)
child | offspring
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la semence
seed | semen
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la échine
spine
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faste (adj)
splendorous
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un/une sociétaire
member
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famélique (adj)
emaciated | starving
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le culot (informal) avoir un culot monstre y aller au culot
cheek nerve to have one hell of a nerve to bluff
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contestataire (adj)
anti-establishment
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une capitulation névrotique
nervous breakdown
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une frange
fringe (cloth) | bangs (hair)
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rancunier (adj)
spiteful
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s’affairer s’affairer auprès de qqn
to busy onself to fuss over someone
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la réglisse
licorice
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panser
``` to dress ( wound) groom ```
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pansé
groomed
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se déliter
to unravel split apart come unglued
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tâtonner Plongé dans l’obscurité par la panne de courant, nous avons tâtonné pour verifier nos positions.
to grope around Plunged into darkness by the power failure, we groped around to check our position.
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à tâtons
by groping around tâtonner = to grope around, feel
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un cursus
course
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chaparder
to pilfer
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une bouille (colloquial)
face
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un mégot (informal)
cigar, cigarette butt
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un pardessus Il enfilla son pardessus et sortir sans se retourner en nous gratifiant d’un simple <>.
overcoat He put on his overcoat and went out without turning, offering us a simple “good night”.
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la dureté Il y avaiut dans la dureté de son visage quelque chose qui rappelait les traits aviachis de Benito Mussolini.
hardness harshness There was, in the hardness of his face, something that recalled the flabby features of Benito Mussolini.
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avachir
to sag | to let oneself go
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barrer
to bar | block
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notoirement
notoriously
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une coursive
passageway
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une outrance
exorbitance
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le reliquat Les enfants de Marie-Curie étaient pour une part des fils ou des filles d’agriculteurs, le reliquat étant issu de familles regroupées en périphérie des villes
remnant remainder The children of Marie-Curie were for one part the sons and daughters of farmers, the remainder were offspring of families organized on the outskirts of the towns.
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le rectorat
local school authority
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affecter Le rectorat l’affecta dans un pareil trou de rat.
assign allocate The school authority assigned him to a real rat’s hole.
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un chantre
eulogist
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bidon (adj)
fake
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une affectation
assignment appointment allocation
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un entresol
mezzanine

Une Vie Française (12 decks)

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