Volume 1 Flashcards by Ken Wodlinger

une gerbe

spray (of flowers, wheat
bouquet (of flowers)
sheaf (eg of wheat)

gerber = faire en gerbe, to vomit (slang)

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ruisseler

to stream

drip with sweat

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la tiédeur

warmth

half-heartedness

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décréter

to decree

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une embardée

faire une embardée

a swerve

to swerve

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un cran

cran d’arrêt

cran de sûreté

avoir du cran

notch

flick knife

safety catch

to have guts

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obsédant (adj)

obsessive

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déchiqueter

to tear to pieces

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un poteau

post

pole

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la nage

en nage (idiom)

swimming

dripping with sweat

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un repère

landmark
reference point (inc time)

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un monticule

mound
hillock
monticle

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bonnement

quite simply

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haletant (adj)

panting

breathless

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raffoler

raffoler de

to be crazy

to be mad about
adore

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les acariens (fp)

dust mites

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travaillé (adj)

très travaillé

worked

ornate

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rabattre

to decrease

pull down

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se rabattre sur

to fall back on

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le fard

make up

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un rondouillard

tubby man

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en sus
en sus de

sus à

in addition
in addition to
over and above

death to…

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longiligne (adj)

long-limbed

rangy

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se ficher de

make fun of

not care about

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mal barré (adj) (idiom)

screwed | up the creek without a paddle

clocher

to go wrong

désemparé (adj)

distraught | helpless

débouler

to suddenly appear | burst onto the scene

stimulant (adj)

challenging

le raffut

racket | din

indemne (adj)

unscathed | unhurt

piétiner

to trample | to stamp

un mitigeur

mixing faucet

clinquant (adj )

flashy

tape-à-œil (adj inv)

gaudy

la langueur

slowness

un possible faire son possible

possible to do all one can

tout de même

all the same

soupe au lait (adj inv)

quick-tempered

une attente contra toute attente

wait expectation against all expectation

compliquer se compliquer

to complicate to become complicated

faussement

falsely | wrongly

un bloc bloc opératoire bloc-moteur bloc-notes

block operating theatre engine block note pad

apitoyer

to be moved to pity

enticher

to infatuate

la souffrance

suffering

immobilière (adj)

real estate

verre dépoli

frosted glass

l’amabilité (f)

kindness charm courtesy affabilité

à l’improviste

without warning | on the fly

laqué (adj)

laquered

une assise assise en tailleur

seat sit cross-legged

la contrariété

annoyance

déboussoler

to disorient | confuse

le train-train

daily routine | rut

le séjour

stay | living room

une cuti virer sa cuti

skin test have a positive skin test change radically

effleurer effleurer qn

to brush against to touch upon to cross sb’s mind

immonde (adj)

squalid | foul

traumatisant (adj)

traumatic | traumatizing

satané (adj) ce satané accident

damned this damned accident

shooter se shooter

to shoot (in sports) to shoot up

brider

to keep in check

au-delà

beyond

troquer

to exchange | swap

flancher

to fail lose heart quit

un impair

blunder | indiscretion

au pas

at a walking pace

guetter

to watch out for | lie in wait

engouffrer

swallow up

gémir

to moan

gémissant (adj)

moaning | groaning

un soupirant

suitor | wooer

soupirant (adj)

hoping to be chosen | sighing

agglutiner s’agglutiner

to agglutinate to gather around

informe (adj)

shapeless

un antre

den lair un âtre = hearth

un internat un internat médecine

boarding school medical internship

inciser

make an incision

entêtant (adj)

heady

un entrebâillement dans l'entrebâillement de la porte

chink in the half open doorway

entrebâiller être entrebâillé

to half open to be ajar

attentionné (adj)

attentive | considerate

l’aurore (f) aux aurores

daybreak dawn at the crack of dawn

un yorkshire

yorkshire terrior

une consigne

instruction

l’échafaudage (m)

scaffolding

effondré (adj)

shattered | distraught

s’effondrer

to collapse

un/une revenant, e

ghost

une banquette

bench seat

la moleskine

imitation leather