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rafraîchissant

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cooling

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tissu

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fabric/ material

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un bail

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a lease

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louer

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to rent / to lease

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donner une autre chance

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to give somebody a new lease on life

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humide

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damp / wet / moist

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humidifier

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to damp / to moisten

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trempé

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drenched / soaked / wet

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avouant

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admitting

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supposer

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to expect

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misère

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squalor

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inquiétude / appréhension

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trepidation

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aplanir

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to plane

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un monstre / une brute

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a beast

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un rire désabusé

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a disgusted laugh

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il est terriblement difficile

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he is frightfully difficult

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un larbin

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a dogsbody

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pardonnez-moi l’expression

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if you’ll pardon my French

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19
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vinaigrette

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French dressing

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20
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Dis moi

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say

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21
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Jacter

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To blow off

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22
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S’esclaffer

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To guffaw

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amadouer

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To coax

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Fasciné

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Entranced

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L'immobilier
The real estate
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Déposer quelque chose
To drop of
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Écrit a la main / à la machine
To be Handwritten / to be typed
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Devoir au sens d'être supposé de
To be to
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Ressaisis-toi
Pull yourself together
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En fanfaronnant
With bravado
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Un idiot
To be a ninny in
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Exhortations
Exhortations
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L'air patibulaire
Evil-looking men
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Interne (une personne) / internat /pension
Boarding
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Jurons
Curses
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Peu accueillante
Uninviting
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Rassembler
To muster
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Audacieux
Bold / daring
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En réalité
In fact / as a matter of fact
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D'un ton neutre
A Matter of fact tone/attitude
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A peine
Hardly, scarcely, barely
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Tissu
Fabric / material/ cloth
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Se pavaner
Strut
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Dignement
Dignifically
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Une matraque
A club
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Fouiner à droite à gauche
to nose around
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impeccable
immaculate
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avec goût (décoré)
stylishly
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meuble
furniture
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même si
though
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esprit chagrin
to be unkind
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un carnet de note
a notebook
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rembourré
cushioned
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lisse
sleek
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beaucoup de (pages, personnes)
scores of / loads of / heaps of
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se le permettre (payer)
to afford
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décent
proper
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hocher la tête
to nod
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couinement
squeak
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mêlé
migling
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se chamailler
to squabble
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s'assoupire
to doz off
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de plus en plus
increasingly
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des caisses de ..
crates of
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poursuivre
to proceed
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et encore..
even then
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sentir quelque chose
to smell off
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en faisant / passant..
as .. did/passed..
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s'étaler/s'affaler
to sprawl
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se faufiler
to elbow / to squeeze one’s way through a crowd (la foule)
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fanfaronner/ être doté de (si c'est pour un bâtiment)
to boast
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commodités
conviniences
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par intermittence
sopradically
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souiller
to soil
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serpillère
a mop
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le temps qu'il faut
the appropriate amount of time
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babord / tribord
port / starboard
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une promenade
a stroll
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injustement
undeservedly / unfairly / wrongly
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morne
dreary / dull
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lugubre
gloomy
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un jour sombre
a closed-in day
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fardeau
burden
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ne pas être du métier
to be not in the business
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mettre mal à l'aise
to make uneasy / inquiéter
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inquiet
uneasy
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"allez on arrête pur aujourd'hui"
let's call it a day