La Terre inhabitable - Vocabulaire - pages 219 - 312
Ladite
– the aforesaid
Disponible - available
Ecrasant -
overwhelming
Récit - story
Enjeux - stakes
Un pari - bet
Remporter – to take away
Désespoir – despair
Parrain – godfather
Ténèbres – darkness
Apogée – peak, apogee
Chambouler – to
disrupt, to turn upsidedown
Tant que – as long as,
as much as
La
haine – hatred
L’envie
– envy
D’elan
– elk, moose
En revanche – on the
other hand
La
couche d’ozone – ozone layer
La
foulée – stride
Coute que coute – at all
costs
Incontournable
– unavoidable
Un
déplacement – shift
L’effondrement
– collapse
Rots
de la mort - belch of death
Ont écartés – to move
apart
Les fautifs – at
fault, in the wrong
Réconfortants
– to comfort
Envergure
– scope, caliber
La
litote – understatement
Émerveillement
– wonder
Entre-temps
– meanwhile
Le champ – field
S’étire – to stretch
Bigarée
– multicoloured
La
gamme – range
Vile
– vile, base
Insouciant – carefree
Net – clear
Recul – distance,
decline
La
foi – faith
Quoique – although
Entourent – to surround
Nul – no, hopeless
Faire
des ravages – to wreak havoc
Débarrasser – to clear,
to get rid of
Élémentaires
– elementary
Ténèbres
– darkness
Titulaire
– with tenure
Compagne
– companion
La
marge – margin
La
cueillette – picking, crop harvest
Etourdissant
– stunning – étourdissant
S’effondrer
– to collapse
Combler
le vide – fill the void
Contraindre
– to compel
Désormais
– from now on
Lourde – heavy
Sillage – wake
La moulinette – reel,
to whirl around
Confondre – to confuse
En lambeux – in tatters
Brandir – to brandish
Vaccillants – to sway,
wobble, flicker
Grignoter – to knibble
at
Afforntements
– clashes
Querelles
– quarrals
Une
bâche – tarpaulin
Effets
de serre – greenhouse effect
Etayer – to prop – étayer
Ressentir – to feel
Les failles – flaws,
weakness
Echouer – fail, to run
around – échouer
Sorcellerie
– witchcraft
L’apparition
– appearance
Tant vantée – to speak
highly of, boast, brag
Les plus béats –
admirable, struck dumb with admiration
Vaille
que vaille – somehow or other
Enjolivées
– to embellish
Parvenons – reach, to
manage to do, succeed in doing
Teinter – to tint,
stain
Rafraichir – to cool down
Face aux – in the face of
Impuissant
– helpless
La
réticence – hesitation, reluctance
Perspicacité – clearsightedness
Affluents – tributary
Ainsi
– Thus
Un
récit – story
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