UNIT 8 Flashcards

(106 cards)

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On dit que les Japonais boivent beaucoup de whisky

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Japanese people / The Japanese are said to drink a lot of whisky

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Les Français ont mis au point leur première bombe atomique dans les années 60.

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The French developed their first atomic bomb in the 60s

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Les jeunes, les aveugles, les Français

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The young, the blind, the French

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Je veux être vétérinaire quand je serai grand.

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I want to be a vet when I grow up

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On ne peut pas aller là-bas sans voiture.

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You cannot get there without a car.

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Quel voyage !

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What a journey !

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Quelle chance !

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What a piece of luck !

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casser

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tp break / broke / broken

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choisir

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to choose / chose / chosen

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parler

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to speak / spoke / spoken

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tisser

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to weave / wove / woven

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commencer

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to begin / began / begun

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boire

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to drink / drank / drunk

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nager

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to sweam / swam / swum

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chanter

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to sing / sang / sung

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sonner

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to ring / rang / rung

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geler

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to freeze / froze / frozen

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voler

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to steal / stole / stolen

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s’éveiller

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to wake / woke / waken

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bondir

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to spring / sprang / sprung

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rétrécir

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to shrink / shrank / shrunk

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couler

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to sink / sank / sunk

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sentir mauvais

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to stink / stank / stunk

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impressionnant

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impressive

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manipulateur
manipulative
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obsessionnel
obsessive
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indépendant
independent
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rentable
profitable
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discutable
questionable
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responsable
responsible
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séparé
separate
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subtil
subtle
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utopique
utopian
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Il faudra que tu t'y habitues.
You will have to get used to it
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Il suffit que je pense à le rappeler.
I only need to remember to call him back.
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Il se peut qu'il soit fâché contre toi.
He may be cross with you.
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Il se trouve que j'ai vu ce film.
I happen to have seen that film.
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Il s'avéra qu'elle était futée.
She turned out / proved to be smart.
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Il paraît qu'il y a eu un accident.
I've heard there's been an accident.
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Il arrive que je fume une cigarette.
I sometimes / occasionally smoke a cigarette.
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Il nous reste un peu de cidre.
We've got a little cider left.
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Il manque toujours 20 euros.
There's still €20 missing / €20 are still missing.
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Il m'est venu une drôle d'idée.
A funny idea occurred to me.
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Il est venu une dame de Lyon.
A lady from Lyon came round.
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Il n'existe pas de solution à ce problème.
There is no solution to this problem.
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chercher du travail.
to seek work / to look for work.
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chercher refuge
seek refuge
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Ne cherche pas à comprendre...
Don't try to understand...
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L'auteur cherche à nous persuader que...
The writer seeks to persuade us that...
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Chercher un mot dans un dictionnaire.
to look up a word.
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"Rira bien qui rira le dernier."
"He who laughs last laughs best."
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Discuter, examiner.
to discuss sth
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décrire, qualifier
to describe sth
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préconiser, prôner
to advocate sth
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être pour quelque chose dans qch
to have sth to do with sth
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provoquer
to bring sth about
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donner lieu à, provoquer qch
to give rise to sth
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se traduire par...
to result in sth
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remettre qch en cause
to call sth into question
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contester
to dispute, to question sth
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contredire
to contradict
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ne pas tenir compte de qch
to ignore sth
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l'anglais, la langue anglaise
English, the English language
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une langue maternelle
a mother-tongue
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un pays anglophone
an English-speaking country
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la langue soignée, soutenue
formal language
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la langue familière
informal, colloquial language
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l'argot
slang
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l'anglais parlé / écrit
spoken / written English
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une formule, un slogan
a catch phrase
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un mot à la mode
a buzz word
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une expression figée, toute faite
a set phrase
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un cliché
a cliché
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un néologisme
a neologism
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inventer un mot
to coin a word
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une pléonasme
a pleonasm
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l'orthographe
spelling
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une litote
an undestatement
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un euphémisme
a euphemism
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dénué de sens
meaningless
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en d'autres termes
in other words
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c'est-à-dire
that is to say
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Comment dirais-je ?
How can I put it ?
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traduire un texte en arabe
to translate a text into Arabic
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traduire un texte du japonais
to translate a texte from Japanese
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mal traduire qch
to mistranslate sth
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parler bien l'espagnol
to speak Spanisk well, to speak good Spanish
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parler le portugais couramment
to speak Portuguese fluently, to speak fluent Portuguese
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l'aisance de qn à s'exprimer en suédois
sb's fluency in Swedish
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compétence en anglais
proficiency in English
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un test de compétence
a proficiency test
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le TOEFL
TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language)
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parler un mauvais hollandais
to speak poor Dutch
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parler mal le chinois
to speak broken Chinese
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s'exprimer
to express oneselg
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se faire comprendre
to make oneself understood
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rafraîchir son allemand
to brush up one's German
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anglais de cuisine, mauvais anglais, sabir
pidgin English
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un dialecte
a dialect
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le charabia
gibberish
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l'anglais approximatif parlé par les non-anglophones
globish
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Il s'avéra que l'inondation avait été provoquée par une fuite.
It turned out the flood had been brought about by a leak.
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Il se peut que l'humanité disparaisse d'ici quelques siècles.
Mankind / Humanity may disappear within a few centuries / in the next few centuries.
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Il se trouve que le général Tomlinson était en Irak la semaine dernière.
General Tomlinson happened to be in Iraq last week.
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Il paraît que le ministre n'a pas tenu compte des conseils de son homologue allemand.
I've heard the minister ignored his German counterpart's advice / didn't take his German counterpart's advice into account.
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Il y avait des souris partout et il a fallu qu'elle cherche refuge ailleurs.
There were mice everywhere and she had to seek refuge / shelter elsewhere / somewhere else.