Vocabulaire commentaire Flashcards by Célia CHALMEL

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un extrait

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an extract / an excerpt

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former / modeler

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Shape conventions

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Mal interpréter / comprendre

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Misinterpret / misconstrue / misread

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Élément de base

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a staple / a characteristic feature

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Réfléchir à

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Ponder on / Meditate upon / Give thorough consideration to

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Se méfier de

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Distrust / mistrust

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Dérouté / perplexe (x4)

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Puzzled / uneasy / Baffled / Nonplussed

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Exprimer

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to voice / to express

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Se passer / dérouler

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To go on/down ; to happen

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La vraisemblance

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Verisimilitude

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Trompeur / erroné

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Misleading / deceptive

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Prendre quelque chose calmement

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To take stg in stride

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L’altérité

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Estrangement / alienation

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Suggérer

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To imply / to suggest

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Ordinaire / banal

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mundane

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Trop / excessivement

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Overly / excessively

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Fixer / ancrer

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To anchor / to ground / to immerse

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Défaut / imperfection

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a flaw

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Hésiter

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to waver / to oscillate

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être en conflit avec

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To be at odds with

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Superposé

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Layered

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Une imbrication

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Embedding

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Rattraper / compenser

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Make up for / compensate

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Une mise en intrigue

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Emplotment

Des pulsions

Urges / drives

Surnaturel

Supernatural

Pertinent

Relevent

Révélateur

Revealing

Ruisseler / couler

to stream

Affluer

To stream in

Se déverser au dehors

to stream out

Filer à toute allure

to stream past

l'oisiveté

Idleness

Aiguiser / mettre en appétit (fig)

to Whet / arouse

Reporter

to put off / postpone

Pointilleux / appliqué

Painstaking / diligent

Introducory

Preliminary / prefactory

Assidu

Keen / perceptive

similar to

Akin to

Un intermédiaire

a intermediary / a go-between

Saleté / crasse

Squalor / squalidity

Des possessions

Belongings

Accentuer (emphasize)

Foreground / enhance / Throw into relief / Bring into focus

Nauséeux

Nauseous / Queasy

Une corne d'abondance

Cornucopia

Excès

Oversupply / overkill

Extravagant

Lavish

Monotone

Humdrum

stand out

Be noticeable / be slightly arresting

Homogène

seamless (fig) / smooth

Doter qqun de qqch

to endow sb with stg

Impact / immédiat

Immediacy

Abonder / grouiller

Abound with / teem with

Exprimer / formuler

to couch stg

Désobligeant / dénigrant

Derogatory

Imprégner / se répandre

permeate / pervade stg