15.05.2014.écrit Flashcards

1
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scintillant

A

gleaming

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2
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aveuglant, ébouissant

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Dazzling

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3
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de manière vive, forte

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Vividly

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4
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un paquetage, le cofre d’une voiture, la trompe de l’éléphant, le tronc d’abre

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A trunk

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5
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un épicier

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A grosser

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6
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gribouiller, griffonner

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To scrawl

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7
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avec un grincement, un crissement

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Raspingly

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8
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se promener sans but, errer

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To wander

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s’allonger de tout son long en s’étirant

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To sprawl out

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10
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le rivage

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The shore

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11
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ombragé, indistinct

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Shadowy

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12
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non essenciel, superflu

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Inessential

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13
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hollandais

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Dutch

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14
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disparaitre

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To vanish

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15
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réfléchir, méditer, ruminer

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To ponder

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16
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se plier à quelque chose / flatter de manière vile, bassement

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To pander

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17
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s’effondrer (2)

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To collapse

to crumble

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18
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S’évanouir (2)

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to swoon

to faint

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19
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ruminer, ressasser

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to brood

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20
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completement

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utterly

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21
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jovial, enjoué

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jocular

22
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les dernières pages (d’un roman…etc)

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The concluding pages

23
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mélancolie

A

melancholy

24
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hanté

A

haunted

25
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deception (3)

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Disillusion
disenchantment
disappointment

26
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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

27
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nostalgie

A

nostalgia

28
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recommencer à zéro

A

to startfrom scratch

start anew

29
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bourré comme un …(expression estudiantine)

A

pissed as a newt

30
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un triton

A

a newt

31
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le passage du temps

A

the passage of time

32
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to cut the grass very short (syn)

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To trim the grass

33
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conforme à

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in conformity to

34
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“Le temps passe”

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“Time passes by”

35
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végétation luxuriante

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lush vegetation

36
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un battement de coeur (2)

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A heart beating / pounding

37
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“c’est tellement américain!”

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“It’s downright American!”

38
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rafoller de, être fou de

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to dote on

39
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déplorer

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to lament

40
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voyeurisme

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voyeurism

41
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être obsédé par

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to have an obsession with

42
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hédonisme

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Hedonism

43
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un prestidigitateur

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A conjurer

44
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en terme de, à propos de

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in terms of

45
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Un petit gredin (2)

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a little rascal / scoundrel

46
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un défunt ami

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a late friend

47
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s’adonner à / aller à fond dans une quête

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To indulge in a quest.

48
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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

49
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aptitude au questionnement

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capacity for wonder

50
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voué à l’échec

A

Doomed to failure