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Volume 4 Flashcards

1
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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

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hairpin bend

road with sharp bends

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roborative (adj)

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fortifying

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prôner

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to exalt

glorify

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la guise

à votre guise
en guise de

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peference
liking

just as you like
by way of

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29
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ébattre

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frolic

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30
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ébats (mp)

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frolics

movements (sport)

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31
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une charpente

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structure
framework
skeleton

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charpenté (adj)

Marie était magnifiquement charpentée

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structured

Marie was magnificently put together.

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un haltère

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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.

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indulgence

As was her way, it showed delicacy and indulgence, solving the problem in a difinitive manner.

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le mollet

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calf muscle

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36
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enduire de

Elle lissait les jambes comme si elle les enduisait d’un onguent.

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to coat with

She smoothed her legs as if she was putting an ointment on them.

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37
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l’écartement de voie

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the guage of the rails (trains)

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38
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un short

en short

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shorts (pants)

in shorts

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39
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un davier

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davit (marine)

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40
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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.

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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

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to stock up

store

42
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arrimer

arrimer qqc sur qqc
arrimer à

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to stow
lash up

to fasten something to something
to dock with

43
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une vigie

A

lookout, watchman

44
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cocasse (adj)

A

comical

45
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étancher

A

make waterproof

46
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un désappointement

A

disappointment

47
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envaser

s’envaser

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to silt up

48
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un rugissement

pousser un rugissement

A

blast
roaring

to roar

49
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truquer

j’ai truqué les resultats d’enquête.

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to rig
fake

I rigged the results of the enquiry.

50
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échiner

s’échiner

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to make a great effort

51
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la lâcheté

A

cowardice

52
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la majoration

A

increase

53
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défraîchir

A

to wilt

wither

54
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la veue

A

arrival

55
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conséquent

A

substantial

56
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les produits haut de gamme

A

high end products

57
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la gésine

en train de gésine

A

birthing

being born

58
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enluminer

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to illuminate

59
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réconfortant (adj)

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comforting

60
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réconforter

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to comfort

solace

61
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la armure

A

armour

62
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prémices (fp)

A

beginnings

63
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grisant (adj)

A

intoxicating

exhilarating

64
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une équerre

A

square

triangle

65
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l’échancrure (f?)

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revealing neckline

66
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un rejeton (informal)

A

child

offspring

67
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la semence

A

seed

semen

68
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la échine

A

spine

69
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faste (adj)

A

splendorous

70
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un/une sociétaire

A

member

71
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famélique (adj)

A

emaciated

starving

72
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le culot (informal)

avoir un culot monstre
y aller au culot

A

cheek
nerve

to have one hell of a nerve
to bluff

73
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contestataire (adj)

A

anti-establishment

74
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une capitulation névrotique

A

nervous breakdown

75
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une frange

A

fringe (cloth)

bangs (hair)

76
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rancunier (adj)

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spiteful

77
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s’affairer

s’affairer auprès de qqn

A

to busy onself

to fuss over someone

78
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la réglisse

A

licorice

79
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panser

A 
to dress ( wound)
groom
80
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pansé

A

groomed

81
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se déliter

A

to unravel
split apart
come unglued

82
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tâtonner

Plongé dans l’obscurité par la panne de courant, nous avons tâtonné pour verifier nos positions.

A

to grope around

Plunged into darkness by the power failure, we groped around to check our position.

83
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à tâtons

A

by groping around

tâtonner = to grope around, feel

84
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un cursus

A

course

85
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chaparder

A

to pilfer

86
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une bouille (colloquial)

A

face

87
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un mégot (informal)

A

cigar, cigarette butt

88
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un pardessus

Il enfilla son pardessus et sortir sans se retourner en nous gratifiant d’un simple <>.

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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.

A

hardness
harshness

There was, in the hardness of his face, something that recalled the flabby features of Benito Mussolini.

90
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avachir

A

to sag

to let oneself go

91
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barrer

A

to bar

block

92
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notoirement

A

notoriously

93
Q

une coursive

A

passageway

94
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une outrance

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exorbitance

95
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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

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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

A

local school authority

97
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affecter

Le rectorat l’affecta dans un pareil trou de rat.

A

assign
allocate

The school authority assigned him to a real rat’s hole.

98
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un chantre

A

eulogist

99
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bidon (adj)

A

fake

100
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une affectation

A

assignment
appointment
allocation

101
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un entresol

A

mezzanine

Une Vie Française (12 decks)

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