Rankin Flashcards by agneta sherborne

Consider, plan

Envisager

Plan to do sth De faire qqc

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Appeal to, urge, call upon, request

Solliciter

Il sollicite un rendez-vous

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Draw up, raise

Erect

Dresser
La foule dresse le poing
Bob dresse la liste des invités
And tame, break in mon pere dresse le chien

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Occupy, fill time

Meubler
And furnish, decorate
Il meuble son temps libre en apprenant…

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Groin n

Aine f

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Clown about, try to be clever, fool around

Faire le mariole

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Sleepiness, drowsiness

Torpeur f

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Bed sl

Pieu m

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Hardened adj

Endurci
Un coeur endurci
Endurcir harden, toughen up

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Uproar, row, noise

Taupage m

Taupage nocturne legal terme disturbance of the peace at night

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Stuff, cram

Farcir

Se farcir get stuck with, saddled with, mut up with

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Owl

Hibou m

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Rasping, hoarse adj

Éraillé

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Jumble, clutter n

Fatras m

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Unsettle, disconcert v

Désarçonner

And unseat

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Discount, rebate n

Ristourne f

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Dismiss, expel, exclude

Postpobe, put off

Renvoyer
La réunion a été renvoyée à la semaine prochaine
R qqc à qqn give, send back

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Push/drive back

Suppress, hold back

Refouler

Les douanières refoulent les immigrants a la frontière.

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Revolt n

Fronde f

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Rust n

Rouille f

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Stiff neck, crick in the neck

Torticolis m

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Stiffness, ache

Corbature f

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Reek

Empester

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Nescafe

Café en poudre

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Ground coffee

Café moulu

Tea strainer

Une passoire à thé

Cross out

Raturer | Il ne faut pas raturer de mots dans les textes notariés.

Wine fam

Pinard m

Swear word

Juron m

Hammer n

Marteau m | Marteler to hammer

Tough, very hard, difficult slang

Gratiné And gratinated and in first place, top of the class Les questions du test étaient gratinées. The test questions were a bitch.

Talkative adj

Volubile

Slump, collapse v

S'affaler Fatigué, il s'est affalé dans le fauteuil.

Racket, din' hullaballo

Tintamarre m

Seep, ooze | Weep (wound)

Suinter | L'eau suinte des murs.

Have a hang over

Avoir la gueule de bois

Stride n

Foulée f

App

Appli f

Harmful adj

Néfaste | Le tabac est un produit néfaste, car il occasionne le cancer.

Shop, boutique Covered stall Chisel

Échoppe f | Il y a quelques échoppes contre le mur du marché couvert.

Bad breath

L'haleine fétide

A breath of air

Un brin d'air | Un brin d'herbe

A quick wash

Un brin de toilette

Hem, fringe v

Ourler

After taste

Arrière-goût m

So and so, someone

Untel | Untel fait plus vieux que moi, ne trouvez-vous pas?

Bulge n

Renflement m

Mental block

blocage m psychologique

Armpit

Aisselle f

Insult n

Injure f | Injurer to insult, to harm

Spread v

Tartiner | • J'aime tartiner du miel sur mon toast le matin.

Mite, tiny bit n

Tantinet m

panic, be overcome with extreme fright v

Affoler noun affolement (m) panic, distraction; tizzy, flop

Kråkor (näsa)

Crottes de nez

harmless, innocuous; insignificant, unimportant adj

Anodin -e

summer, summery, like summer

Estivale Hivernale Le froid the cold

porpoise, species of dolphin (Zoology)

Marsouin m

pebble, rock, stone

Galet m

Coral reef

Le récif corallien

feature length, full length film

Le long métrage | Le court métrage

Features n

Traits m

amazement, astonishment, wonder

Stupeur f

cut, dent, notch, nick, slash, v

Entailler

load, burden, charge; encumbrance, millstone

Fardeau m

pressure cooker

Cocotte-minute f

regulate, control; adjust( fex sound on TV)

Moduler

Babble, murmur, hearsay n

Rumeur f | And rumour

Racket, din

Boucan m

sleepless night, night without any sleep (usually due to anxiety)

Nuit blanche f

tinnitus, ringing or whistling sound in the ears

Acouphène m | Avoir un...

Focus on

Accommoder de

Get used to

S'habituer

Connect v

Brancher • Tiens, t'a qu'à brancher ton ordinateur sur la multiprise. There, just connect your computer to the power strip.

Navel

Nombril m

adverb all the same, though; nonetheless; however good; yet conjunction however, yet

Pourtant

Unspeakable v

Ineffable

slowness, backwardness, sluggishness, tardiness

Lenteur f

Platform, stage

Estrade f

Willow tree, wicker

Osier m

cunning, shifty; sneaky, sly; devious, furtive; underhand adj

Sournois -e

Surviving | Survivor

Rescapé m

double-quick, quickly, rapidly, swiftly adv

Dare-dare

adjective splendorous, magnificent noun splendor, magnificence, grandeur; brilliance, brightness, radiance

Faste m

He cherished the memory of his dead wife

Il chérissait le souvenir de sa défunte femme.

Contemplate, think, wonder

Songer à • Je ne veux même pas songer à ce qui pourrait arriver. I don't even want to think about what could happen

archery

Tir à l'arc m

Farm n

Grange f

Lose patience, become impatient

S'impatienter | Impatienter annoy, irritate

Without knowing what to do

À ne savoir que faire

Something is wrong....

Quelque chose est détraqué....(dans le moteur de ma voiture/ with the motor of my car) Il est détraqué. Something is wronga

Fly (pants)

Braguette f

Guilty conscience

Le sentiment de culpabilité m

insensitive, unfeeling, unmoved adj

Insensible

Fearless, unafraid adj

Impavide

Well and truly

Bel et bien

failure, collapse

Faillite f | And bankruptcy

Basin, bowl

Jatte f

Landing n

Atterrissage

noun | silence, noiselessness; stillness, tranquility; muteness, speechlessness; peacefulness, calmness

Quiétude f

Ambush n

Embuscade f

Answer back, counterattack, hit back, retort; clench, return v

Riposter

Wisdom teeth

Les dents de sagesse

Wag, practical joker

Farceur m

Talk about all and nothing

à parler de tout et rien

Dragonfly

Libellulle f

Stoop v

Être voûté

I've been walking on crutches ever since I broke my foot.

Depuis que je me suis cassé le pied, je marche avec des béquilles. -

Drunkeness

Beuverie f C'est mon vieux compagnon de beuverie. Submit He's my old drinking buddy.Submit

dodge, evade; sidestep v

Esquiver

Boast v | Praise

Vanter • Je n'ai pas de quoi me vanter. I have nothing to boast about.

They were thrashed

Ils ont été battus à plate couture.

Doggie, lapdog inf

Toutou m

Scalpel

Bistouri m

Venom

Venin m

Enough is enough!

Ras le bol!

Guru

Gourou m

Give me a break!

Fichez-moi la paix | Fichez-nous la paix leave us alone!

Name, call n

Nommer • Je ne sais pas comment te nommer. I don't know what to call you.

More, further

Davantage

adjective | cross-eyed, squint; short-sighted, squinting

Bigleux -se | Le bigleux

Attend

Assister à Je ne pouvais pas assister à la fête, et je ne le voulais pas non plus. I was unable to attend the party, nor did I want to.

greet, host; receive, welcome; accommodate

Accueillir • Ils seront heureux de vous accueillir dimanche. They'll be happy to welcome you on Sunday. • Cette salle peut accueillir deux mille personnes. Two thousand people fit into this hall.

Otter

Lutre f

Bandage v | Blindfold

Bander | Bander les yeux v blindfold

Truck driver

camionneur

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