2A4 Flashcards

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une artère

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an artery

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la nourriture grasse

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fatty food

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avoir l’air vieux

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to look old

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s’économiser

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to spare oneself

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un rire

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a laughter

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s’esclaffer

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to guffaw

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aigu (son)

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high-pitched

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une bourgeoise

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a posh middle-class lady

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pouffer

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to burst out

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réprimer (une parole, un geste…)

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to hold back, to restrain

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un élan/afflux/poussée/déferlement

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a surge –> to surge

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le sang-froid

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composure

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lisse (sans aspérités)

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smooth

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couvrir (un bruit)

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to drown

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tinter –> un tintement

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to clink –> a clink

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la perspective

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the prospect

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une issue fatale/mortelle

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a fatal outcome

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furtivement

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furtively

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réjouir

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to delight/ to please

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contrarier

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to annoy / to upset

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déjouer/ contrecarrer

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to thwart/ to frustrate

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médusé

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stunned/ dumbfounded

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un projet de loi

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a draft bill

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le parti d’opposition

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the opposition party

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voter une loi
to pass a bill/law
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un stratège
a strategist
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un conseiller municipal
a city concillor
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tenace, opiniâtre --> travailler sans relâche
dogged --> to work doggedly
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ridicule, dérisoire
laughable
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le mal du pays
homesickness
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à vie --> apprentissage tout au long de la vie
lifelong --> lifelong learning
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promettre monts et merveilles
to promise the earth
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un comptable
an accountant
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un cheval de trait / un bourreau de travail
a workhorse
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un constructeur automobile
an automaker
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prophétiser
to prophesy
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les arts du spectacle
performing arts
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les arts visuels
visual arts
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les beaux-arts
the fine arts
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transmettre, communiquer (connaissance, histoire...)
to impart
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perspicace, astucieux, habile
canny
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autoriser, donner l'autorisation de
to licence to do
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compétent, très bon
proficient
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la candidature
application/ candidacy (politics)
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l'âge de glace
the Ice Age
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un mécène
a patron
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un collectionneur
a collector
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subjuguer, captiver
to transfix
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une cascade (film) --> un cascadeur
a stunt --> a stuntman
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un collant
tights
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un figurant
a walk-on actor
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un metteur en scène/ réalisateur
a film director
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le scénariste
the scriptwriter
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il est impossible que ce film
this film can't have
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un film à succès
a box-office hit
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la doublure (ciné)
the understudy
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en or massif
in solid gold
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à petit budget
low-budget
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la représentation (spectacle)
the performance
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des lustres
ages
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les nouvelles sont bonnes
the news is good
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indépendant
independEnt
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enregistrer (graver etc)
to record
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écran plat
flat-screen TV
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enfin
at last
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volonté/ motivation intérieure
an inner motivation
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un frein
a brake
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un contre-poids
a counterweight
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interminable, à n'en plus finir
never-ending
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il s'agit de
it is a question of / what is at stake is
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l'ensemble de la société
the whole of society
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faire la lumière sur
shed a light on
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anodin
insignificant / trivial
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des inquiétudes/préoccupations
concerns
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un harnais/ harnachement --> maîtriser, exploiter
a harness --> to harness
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une station de ski
a ski resort
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un diplomate
a diplomat
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être originaire de
to hail from
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répugner à faire
to loath to do
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un participant(e)
an attendee
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un blasphème
blasphemy
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désobligeant, dénigrant
derogatory
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attendu que, vu que, dans la mesure où
inasmuch as
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un bonimenteur/aboyeur
a barker
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une semaine sur deux
every other week
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épuiser (consommer, finir)
to use up
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c'est pas trop tôt !
it's none too soon
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des munitions
ammunition
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encore trois jours (trois jours de +)
another three days
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encore un autre
yet another
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encore plus (vite, dur etc)
faster/harder still
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l'heure de fermeture
(the) closing time
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expresso
espresso
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poireauter, attendre
to hang about
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"attends un instant"/ne bouge pas etc
hang about
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le fond de la mer
the bottom of the sea
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le fond du problème
the root of the problem
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musique de fond
background music
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"juste un fond, pas plus"
just a drop, no more!
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ski de fond
cross-country skiing
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course de fond
long-distance running
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une touche (clavier, piano etc)
a key
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servir (job d'un serveur)
to wait on someone
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faire le grand écart
to do the splits
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entamer (ex: commencer à jouer de la musique), engager (la conv)
to strike up (struck/struck)
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une migraine
a splitting headache
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une trompette
a trumpet
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une flute
a flute
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demander du feu
to ask for a light
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aller à la messe/ assister à l'office
to attend Mass/chapel
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le mal de mer
seasickness
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le mal des transports
carsickness
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interrompre, interpeller (qqun qui fait un discours)
to heckle
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large/vaste
broad
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désemparé, bouleversé (fou d'inquiétude/ grande tristesse)
distraught
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lancer qqch sur/à qqun
to fling stg at so
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mépriser
to despise
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se mettre à l'aise, l'installer confortablement
to cosy up
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toucher à/ falsifier/ trafiquer qqch
to tamper with stg
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un trou de mémoire
a memory lapse
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tomber dans (fig: coma, silence, dans un travers...)
to lapse into
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faire dérailler/capoter etc
to derail
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serrer/ resserrer / se resserrer, se tendre
tighten
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bon à rien, incapable (adj)
feckless
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fantôme (imaginaire)
phantom
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miner, saper
to undermine
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dénué de qqch
devoid of stg
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un napperon
a doily
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un set de table
a tablemat
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une nappe
a tablecloth
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un cèdre
a cedar tree
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un sapin
a fir tree
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du gravillon
gravel
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un sentier
a footpath
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serpenter
to wind (wound/wound)
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un peuplier
a poplar tree
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mince, élancé
slender
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la silhouette
the figure
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une canne
a cane