Text 4 Flashcards

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flanked

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encadrée, entourée
militaire : flanquer, contourner par le flan

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concrete

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beton
concret, concrete, tangible

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ditches

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fossé

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wide

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large, grand, vaste

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conifer

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conifère

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beyond

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au-delà de
derrière
après

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swatch

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échantillon
nuancier

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stumps

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(d’un arbre) souche, chicot
(d’un membre) moignon

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bracken

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fougères

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to ditch

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larguer, abandonner, plaquer, laisser tomber, jeter, bazarder, planter (inf)

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wilding conifer / wilding pine

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pin sauvage

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to stump

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coller, poser une colleà, to be stumped : sécher

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swathe

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envelopper, emmailloter, enrouler

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overtake

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dépasser, doubler

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to snake

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serpenter
draguer, séduire = snake sb

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through

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à travers
jusqu’a fin
par

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slap

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gifler, donner une claque

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windscreen

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pare-brise

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to cling to –> clung

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s’accrocher à, se cramponner à

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rear

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arrière
de derrière
élever des enfants

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bouncing

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rebondissant

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swaying

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balancement, chancelement

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a slew of sth

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un tas de, une flopée de qqch

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to slew/slue

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pivoter, déraper, faire pivoter

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spark
étincelles, éclair
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a spark of sth
une trace de, une lueur de
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sunshine
soleil, ensoleillement, chaleur du soleil
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fly off
s'envoler
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so far
jusqu'ici, jusqu'à présent, jusqu'à maintenant, pour l'instant, jusqu'à ce jour
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padlock
cadenas, cadenasser
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flange
bride, collerette embase
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scrawled
griffonné, gribouillé
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grime
crasse
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whinnying
hénissement
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scraped
rayé, gratté, raclé, éraflé, écorché
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propel
propulser, pousser
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a flame to flame
flamme insulter, injurier (inf)
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a bulge
bosse, renflement, gonflement
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to bulge
se gonfler, ressortir, bomber
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bulge with sth
etre plein de qqchose être plein à craquer de qqchose
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camshaft
arbre à cames
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gear box
boite de vitesse
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upended
retourné, renversé, debout, sur une tranche
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somersault
saut périlleux, roulade, culbute, galipette revirement
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radiator grill
calandre
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downward
vers le bas
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deep
profond grave
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boom
retentissement, fracas
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a surge
flot, hausse, déferlement
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dried out
desséché, seché
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1 foot
12 inches 30cm
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1inch
2.5cm
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1 yard
91.44cm
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1 mile
1.609km
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hiatus
hiatus ou anomalie interruption (mais plus seance en procès ou théâtre)
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slew slew right round
slew = déraper par l'arrière slew right round = faire un tête à queue
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upended
renversé
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oisif
idle
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somersault
tonneau, saut périlleux
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flash
reflet
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surge along
poursuivre sa trajectoire/lancée along = poursuite, surge = lancée
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Quand plusieurs verbes à la suite
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