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C3-Unit1
Connexions 3, Unit 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ajouter (à) | to add (to) |
| ajouter foi à | to believe s.t. |
| l'ajout (m) | addition (house, etc.) |
| appréciable | appreciable, considerable |
| a la manière de | in the manner of |
| le plan | plane; plan, strategy; diagram; outline, synopsis |
| la butte | small hill, mound |
| être en butte à | to come up against |
| le verger | orchard |
| la chaumière | (thatched) cottage |
| le chaume | thatch; stubble (grain) |
| la vigie | lookout; lookout post; crow's nest |
| les vifs-argents (m,pl) | quicksilver |
| la quarantaine | quarantine |
| avoir la quarantaine | to be in one's forties |
| une quarantaine de | about forty (of) |
| le/la meunier, -ère | miller |
| l'ouvrier, -ère | working class person; worker |
| la class ovrière | the working class |
| le travail / les travaux | work; task; employment; labor |
| se mettre au travail | to get down to work, get working |
| le travail à plein temps | full time employment |
| les travaux publics | public works |
| le travail du bois | woodworking |
| les travaux d'aiguille/de la ferme | needle/farmwork |
| chasser | to hunt; chase away; get rid of; go hunting |
| chassè de | chased/driven away from |
| populaire | popular; colloquial; working class |
| la popularité | popularity |
| la foison | abundance, plenty |
| à foison | in abundance |
| foisonner (de) | to abound (with); expand; teem; swell; buckle |
| folâtre | playful, frolicsome |
| la galette | flat cake; soft cookie; money (slang) |
| le canot | boat; dinghy |
| le canot de sauvetage | lifeboat |
| le canotier | boater hat |
| le feutre | felt; felt hat; stuffing |
| éclabousser | to splash, splatter; to stain, sully, smear (rep) |
| la cannelle | cinnamon |
| huppé | tufted; smart, stylish, trendy |
| les gens huppés (m,pl) | the swells, fancy people |
| pudique | modest, chaste |
| la pudicité | modesty; chasitity |
| pudibond | prudish |
| la virevolte | spinning round; half turn; sudden change |
| pulpeux, -se | pulpy |
| ça se comprend | that's understandable |
| se comprendre | to understand each other |
| grimper | to climb |
| grimper sur/dans un arbre | to climb a tree |
| songer de | to dream of |
| songer | to think; dream; muse; reflect |
| songer à | to think of, about; consider/contemplate s.t. |
| se fier à | to trust, rely on (s.o.) |
| fiez-vous à moi! | leave it to me! |
| susciter | to cause; give rise to; provoke, arouse; stir up |
| le gave | mountain torrent |
| gluant, -e | sticky; gummy; glutinous |
| cuit, -e | cooked |
| bien cuit | well done |
| être cuit | to be done for; have had it |
| chahuter | to create an uproar; heckle |
| le chahut | uproar; racket; rumpus |
| frêle | weak; flimsy; frail |
| mat, -e | dull; unpolished; matte; checkmated |
| la rousseur | redness; russet color |
| la tache de rousseur | freckle |
| il travaillet ferme | he's working hard |
| pétillant, -e | sparkling (drink); bubbling |
| rieur, -euse | cheerful |
| les yeux rieureux (m,pl) | laughing eyes |
| le raid | raid; trek |
| raide | stiff; steep |
| les cheveux raide | straight hair |
| la raideur | stiffness; steepness |
| la trompette | trumpet |
| le trompettiste | trumpet player |
| le nez en trompette | turned up nose |
| nez à nez | face to face |
| mettre le nez dans | to poke one's nose into |
| être bien/mal coiffé | `to have tidy/untidy hair |
| coiffé | to be hatted/had one's hair done |
| né coiffé | born lucky |
| rondelit, -e | plumpish; round (number) |
| chétif, -ve | puny; wretched; sickly; weak |
| foncé, -e | dark |
| un bleu foncé | a deep blue |
| épais, -se | thick; dense (mind) |
| perplexe | perplexed; puzzled; bemused |
| la cordillère | cordillera |
| bruyant, -e | noisy |
| le paysage | scenery; landscape |
| valloné, -e | undulating; hilly |
| le vallon | small valley; dale, vale |
| verdoyant, -e | green; verdant |
| le couvent | convent |
| le monastère | monastery |
| entraîner | to carrry away; lead (s.o.); drive; entail; train |
| ...que leur place entraîne | ...which their implies |
| la nuance | shade, hue; tinge; nuance |
| lier | to tie (up); bind; link (idea); thicken (cooking) |
| se lier avec | to make friends with |
| s'enquérir de | to inquire about |
| droitier, -e | right handed; right wing; conservative |
| usé | worn (out); threadbare; hackneyed |
| user | to use up; consume; wear out; spoil; waste |
| s'user | to wear out; wear away; be worn out (fig) |
| user de | to use; make use of; resort to |
| l'usinage (m) | machining; tooling |
| fier, -fière | proud; haughty |
| angoissé, -e | anxious |
| l'endroit (m) | place; locale |
| à l'endroit | the right way round |
| par endroits | in places |
| emmener | to take (s.o.); take away |
| saliver | to salivate; have one's mouth water |
| gueuler | to bawl; bellow |
| la gueule | mouth, maw (animal, tunnel, etc.); mouth (slang) |
| bouffer | to scarf down; gobble up (fam) |
| la vedette | star, celebrity; patrol boat, launch |
| donner envie à qqn de | to make s.o. want to/feel like |
| faire envie à qqn | to make s.o. envious |
| un souvenir d'enfance | a childhood memory |
| l'espèce (f) | kind; sort; species |
| l'espèces (f, pl) | cash; specie |
| espèce de...! | silly...! |
| l'espèce humaine | mankind |
| le bruit | noise; clatter; din; rumor |
| le bruit de fond | background noise |
| le bruit sourd | thud |
| le bruit court que... | rumor has it that... |
| le bruissement | rustling; humming; murmering |
| sourd, -e | deaf; dull, muffled; secret, clandestine |
| les consonnes sourdes (f,pl) | voiceless consonants |
| l'évenement (m) | event |
| rejaillir | to splash up |
| rejailler sur | to splash back onto; reflect on (s.o.) |
| le succès rejaillit sur l'homme | the success reflects on the man |
| rejoindre | to rejoin; return to; get back to |
| la derviche | dervish |
| la vielle fille | old maid |
| la fille publique | prostitute |
| j'avais un an de plus qu'elle | I was a year older than her |
| épuisé, -e | exhausted; out of stock |
| épuiser | to tire out, fatigue; exhaust, use up |
| le vol | flight; theft; robbery |
| au vol | in midair |
| prendre son vol | to take flight |
| le sol | ground, floor(ing); soil |
| le sol canadien | Canadian territory |
| prévenir | to prevent, avoid; inform; warn; anticipate |
| prévenir contre | to prejudice (s.o.) against |
| j'ai oublié de te prévenir | I forgot to warn you |
| je ne sais plus si j'ai pris mes clés! | I can't remember if I brought my keys! |
| le trou | hole; gap (memory); dump, rathole (place) |
| le trou de mémoire | memory lapse |
| le trou de serrure | keyhole |
| faire son trou | to carve out one's niche |
| réfléchi, -e | thoughtful (person); reflexive (verb) |
| réfléchir (à,sur) | to think (about); reflect |
| se réfléchir | to be reflected |
| rappeler | to phone back; call up (reserves); recall |
| rappeler qch a qn | to remind s.o. of s.t. |
| se rappeler | to remember, recall |
| agir | to act, behave; work, take effect |
| il s'agit de fuir | we/you must do; it's a matter of doing |
| dans ce livre ils s'agit de | this book is about |
| ...dont il s'agit | ...in question |
| il s'agit de ton fils | it's about your son |
| s'agit de savoir se | the question is whether |
| réviser | to revise; overhaul; reexamine |
| emprunter (à) | to borrow (from); take (route); assume (fig) |
| châtain | chestnut brown |
| sourire | to smile, smirk |
| sourire à qqn | to smile on s.o.; appeal to s.o. (fig) |
| le canon | canon; model, standard; gun; barrel; glass of wine |
| la ride | wrinkle; ripple |
| le rai | ray; shaft (light) |
| la raie | stripe; part (hair); ray, skate (fish) |
| le raifort | horseradish |
| le partage | sharing; dividing; share, lot |
| sans partage | total, undivided |
| partager | to divide up |
| se partager | to share |
| la mèche | wick; fuse (explosives); lock (hair); drillbit |
| la mèche rebelle | cowlick |
| touffu, -e | thick, dense, bushy; complex, dense (style) |
| la forêt touffue | dense forest |
| la touffe | tuft, clump |
| courber | to bend, curve, bow; bend (over) |
| se courber | take/make a bow |
| l'ourlet (m) | hem |
| le frémissement | trembling, shivering, shuddering |
| frémir (de) | to shudder, rustle; quiver (with) |
| le frêne | ash tree |
| faire la moue | to pout |
| élargir | to widen; broaden; let out (garment); release |
| s'élargir | to stretch (garment); widen; broaden |
| plisser | To pleat; pucker (mouth); screw up (eyes); crumple |
| imprévisible | unpredictable |
| costaud, -e | strong (fam) |
| le costaud | strong man |
| gonfler | pump; blow up; inflate; swell |
| le gonflement | swelling |
| l'os (m) | bone |
| allonger | to lengthen; elongate; stretch (out); lay down |
| l'allonge (f) | extension; meat hook; reach (boxing) |
| s'allonger | to get longer; lie down, stretch out |
| la graisse | fat; grease |
| graisser | to grease |
| graisseux, -euse | greasy |
| nouer | to tie, knot; enter into (friendship, etc.) |
| avoir la gorge nouée | to have a lump in one's throat |
| la voile | sail, sailing |
| le voile | veil; voile fabric; mist (tears, fog) |
| carré, -e | square; straightforward; forthright |
| le carré | square; plot; patch (land); scarf |
| un carré d'as | four aces |
| dégager | to release, free; clear; bring out, extract; emit |
| gégagez la voie! | clear the way! |
| dégager des profits | to show a profit |
| se dégager | to emanate; clear up; emerge; come out |
| se dégager de | to get free of; extricate one's self from |
| tacheter | to spot, speckle |
| la paillette | sequit; speck, flake |
| le savon en paillettes | soap flakes |
| le savon | soap |
| passer un savon à | to reprimand |
| la savonnette | bar of soap |
| arqué, -e | arched, curved |
| les jambes arquées (f,pl) | bandy legs |
| se redresser | to stand up again; draw o.s. Up; recover |
| de la bonne bouffe | good eatin' |
| siffler | to whistle; hiss; sizzle; wheeze; swig, swill down |
| la sirène | siren, mermaid; alarm siren; foghorn |
| terrifiant, -e | terrifying |
| le sirop | syrup; (fruit) cordial |
| épouvanter | to terrify; fill with dread; scare |
| tellement | so; in such a way; to such an extent |
| Claude est tellement drôle | Claude is so funny |
| l'expedition (f) | expedition; shipment; sending; dispatch |
| de moi-même | of my own accord |
| l'accord (m) | agreement; harmony; chord (music) |
| expéditif, -ve | expeditious, prompt, quick |
| être d'accord | to agree |
| être d'accord pour | to agree to |
| se mettre d'accord | to agree, come to an agreement |
| d'un commun accord | by common consent, mutual agreement |
| tomber d'accord | to reach an agreement |
| régler | to regulate, adjust; resolve; rule (a page) |
| réglementer | to regulate, control |
| faites les accords nécessaires | to make the necessary agreements (pronouns) |
| la loterie, -s | lottery |
| amener | to bring (person or animal) |
| apporter | to bring (a thing) |
| la dette | debt |
| la créance | debt, letter of credit; credence, credibility |
| les dettes actives (f,pl) | assets (bus) |
| les dettes passives (f,pl) | liabilities (bus) |
| avoir les dettes | to be in debt |
| mettre au régime | to start a diet |
| être au/suivre un régime | to be on a diet |
| atterrer | to stun, crush |
| atterrir | to land |
| se poser | to come to rest, alight, land; arise (question) |
| se poser comme | to pass o.s. off as |
| poser à | to claim to be |
| poser sa candidature (à) | to apply (for) (job, position) |
| réussir | to succeed, thrive; pass (as exam) |
| réussir à | to be successful in; carry s.t. out well; manage |
| réussir à qqn | to agree with s.o. |
| le bénéfice | profit; benefit |
| la panne | breakdown, failure |
| en panne | broken down, stuck |
| être en panne de | to have run out of |
| laisser en panne | to leave in the lurch |
| tomber en panne | to have a breakdown; crash (computer) |
| emporter | to carry away; take away; remove |
| les plats à emporter (m,pl) | meals to go |
| l'emporter (sur) | to win, get the upper hand (over); prevail (over) |
| s'emporter | to lose one's temper; flare up; bolt (horse) |
| dès que | as soon as |
| la muraille | (high) wall |
| la muraille de Chine | the Great Wall of China |
| quasiment | almost, practically |
| aboyer | to bark, bay |
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