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french beckett
vocabulary beckett
Question | Answer |
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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 |