15.05.2014.écrit

Question 1

scintillant

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gleaming

Question 2

aveuglant, ébouissant

Answer 2

Dazzling

Question 3

de manière vive, forte

Answer 3

Vividly

Question 4

un paquetage, le cofre d’une voiture, la trompe de l’éléphant, le tronc d’abre

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A trunk

Question 5

un épicier

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A grosser

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gribouiller, griffonner

Answer 6

To scrawl

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avec un grincement, un crissement

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Raspingly

Question 8

se promener sans but, errer

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To wander

Question 9

s’allonger de tout son long en s’étirant

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To sprawl out

Question 10

le rivage

Answer 10

The shore

Question 11

ombragé, indistinct

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Shadowy

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non essenciel, superflu

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Inessential

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hollandais

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Dutch

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disparaitre

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To vanish

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réfléchir, méditer, ruminer

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To ponder

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se plier à quelque chose / flatter de manière vile, bassement

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To pander

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s’effondrer (2)

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To collapse

to crumble

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S’évanouir (2)

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to swoon

to faint

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ruminer, ressasser

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to brood

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completement

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utterly

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jovial, enjoué

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jocular

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les dernières pages (d’un roman…etc)

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The concluding pages

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mélancolie

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melancholy

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hanté

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haunted

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deception (3)

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Disillusion disenchantment disappointment

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être pénétré d'un sentiment

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to be imbued with a feeling | to be permeated with a feeling

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nostalgie

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nostalgia

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recommencer à zéro

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to startfrom scratch | start anew

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bourré comme un ...(expression estudiantine)

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pissed as a newt

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un triton

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a newt

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le passage du temps

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the passage of time

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to cut the grass very short (syn)

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To trim the grass

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conforme à

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in conformity to

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"Le temps passe"

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"Time passes by"

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végétation luxuriante

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lush vegetation

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un battement de coeur (2)

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A heart beating / pounding

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"c'est tellement américain!"

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"It’s downright American!"

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rafoller de, être fou de

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to dote on

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déplorer

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to lament

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voyeurisme

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voyeurism

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être obsédé par

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to have an obsession with

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hédonisme

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Hedonism

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un prestidigitateur

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A conjurer

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en terme de, à propos de

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in terms of

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Un petit gredin (2)

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a little rascal / scoundrel

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un défunt ami

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a late friend

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s’adonner à / aller à fond dans une quête

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To indulge in a quest.

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être nostalgique du passé

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to feel nostalgia for the past | to retain a nostalgia for the past

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aptitude au questionnement

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capacity for wonder

Question 50

voué à l’échec

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Doomed to failure