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french beckett
vocabulary beckett
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| bringuebaler | to rattle, to cart about |
| s'accouder | to lean on ones elbows |
| fléau /fléaux | (calamité) scourge |
| gerer | to manage |
| to handle the crisis | gérer la crise |
| lacune | la: loophole, gap |
| big gaps in knowledge of history | de grosses lacunes en histoire |
| perpétrer | to perpetrate |
| estomper | to shade off, to blur |
| s'estomper | to fade, to become less marked |
| emmitoufler | to wrap up warmly |
| éparpiller | to scatter, dissipate |
| he spreads himself too thin | il s'éparpille beaucoup trop |
| épars / éparse | (litter) scattered |
| mouiller | to dampen sth; to get sth wet |
| S'étaler | to spread oneself (out on the floor ex.) |
| we got a real hammering | on s'est fait étaler! |
| étaler (3) | to floor (frapper) flunk |
| étaler (2) | flaunt, make a show of |
| payments are spread over a period of... | les payments s'étalaent sur quatre mois |
| étaler | to spread (objects) sur; spread over, out, display |
| in a moment of distraction | dans un moment d'égarement |
| un égarement | distraction |
| épais / épaisse | thick |
| tébèbres | darkness (fm, pl) |
| épaisseur | la thickness |