Volume 4 Flashcards

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tâcher de faire

A

to try to do

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tacheté de (adj)

A

sprinkled with

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3
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une queue de poisson

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fishtail

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4
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un escalator

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escalator

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5
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à fleur de peau

A

hypersensitive

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6
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précipitamment

A

hastily

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7
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assener

assener un coup à qn

A

to strike

to deal sb a blow

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figer

se figer

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to freeze

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9
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disgracieux (adj)

A

unattractive
awkward
ungracious
disgraceful

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10
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en biais

A

at an angle

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11
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une charrette

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cart

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12
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tripoter

A

fiddle with

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13
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visser

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to screw

inc vulgar sense

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14
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un refus

ce n’est pas de refus

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refusal

I wouldn’t say no

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15
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borner

se borner à

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to confine
restrain
limit

to limit oneself to

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16
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s’emporter

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to lose one’s temper

fly into a rage

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17
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la mue

A

molting

breaking of the voice

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18
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l’être (m)

A

being

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19
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un allié

une alliée

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ally

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20
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le remords

avoir des remords

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remorse

to feel remorse

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21
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se ronger les sangs

se ronger de souci

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to worry oneself sick

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22
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la foulée

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stride

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23
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séance tenante

A

forthwith

immediately

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émacié (adj)

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emaciated

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baisser les bras
to give up
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ciller
to blink
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un as
ace
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plein au as
filthy rich
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une chambre de garde
on-call room
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rêche (adj)
rough
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spartiate (adj)
spartan
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le billard
billiards
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une guitoune
tent
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friser
to curl
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renversant (adj)
amazing | astounding
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le déroulement
progress
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une bécane
bike | bitty box
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somnoler
to doze
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se voler dans les plumes
to go for each other
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l’enciente (f)
enclosure | wall
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le gabarit du même gabarit
size template of the same type of that ilk
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patibulaire (adj)
sinister
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la vacuité
emptiness
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ballotter
to shake to roll around toss about
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devants prendre les devants
bows to take the iniative
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dru (adj)
thick | heavy
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le sas
security door double door airlock
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une bénédiction
blessing
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enfermer s’enfermer
to lock to shut oneself away
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le montant
upright | post
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un battant
side of a door
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un voyant
warning light
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l’enfoiré (m)
bastard
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le monte-plats
service elevator
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bredouille (adj)
empty-handed
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une articulation
joint
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mettre dans le pétrin
to put sb in a bad spot
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gicler
to spurt | splatter
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la pudeur
modesty
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un gaffeur | une gaffeuse
blunderer
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être servi sur un plateau d'argent
to be waited on hand and foot
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écourter
to curtail
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le supplice
torture
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gronder
scold | growl
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insonorisée (adj)
soundproof
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molletonné (adj)
quilted | fleece lined
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âprement
hotly energetically piercingly
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l’enlisement
getting stuck | stalemate
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l’échine (f)
spine
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empester
to stink
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un piétinement
stamping | standing about
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une irruption faire irruption dans
raid to burst into
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mirer se mirer
to mirror to be mirrored to mirror each other
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une tortionnaire
torturer | executioner
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se tenir droit
to stand up straight
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un fuyard | une fuyarde
runaway | fugitive
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dénigrer
denigrate
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se délecter de
to delight in
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une engueulade
telling off | scolding
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un entrain
spirit
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entrainé (adj) avec entrain
driven with a will
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s’en vouloir
to blame oneself | to be angry with oneself
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ressasser
to keep rehearsing | to keep trotting out
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un remue-mélange (inv)
commotion
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une furie en furie
fury in a rage
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enfouir
to bury
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enfouie (adj)
buried
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instinctivement
instinctively
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fluet (adj)
thin slight scraggy