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| s'installer [s'asseoir] | to take a seat | |
| se ménager [s'économiser] | to take it easy | |
| prendre place [s'intégrer] | to take one's place | |
| prendre qc. d'assaut [aussi fig.] | to take sth. by storm [also fig.: sb.'s heart, the audience, etc.] | |
| jaillir [s'élever] [clocher, immeuble, arbre] (au-dessus de qc.) | to tower up (above sth.) | |
| se payer qc. [fig.] [s'offrir qc.] | to treat oneself to sth. | |
| sport rafler qc. [fam.] [médaille] | to walk off with sth. [e.g. winner's medal] | |
3 Words: Nouns |
| adaptabilité {f} [faculté de s'adapter] | ability to adapt | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} d'Auerstaedt [1806] | Battle of Auerstedt [1806] [in the two battles of Jena & Auerstedt, fought on the same day, Napoleon's army decisively defeated the Prussian Army under King Frederick William III] | |
| géogr. hist. mil. bataille {f} de la Moskova [1812] [aussi : bataille de la Moskowa ou bataille de Borodino] | Battle of Borodino [1812] [2nd major battle during Napoleon's invasion of Russia. The Grande Armée won the battle against the Imperial Russian Army, but failed to gain a decisive victory] | |
| hist. mil. bataille {f} de Buçaco [1810] | Battle of Buçaco [1810] [also: Battle of Bussaco] [major battle in the Portuguese mountains, which resulted in the defeat of French forces by Lord Wellington's Anglo-Portuguese Army] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} de Cannes [216 av. J.-C.] | Battle of Cannae [216 BC] [Hannibal's Carthaginian army heavily defeated the Roman army] | |
| hist. mil. relig. bataille {f} de Civetot [1096] | Battle of Civetot [1096] [Seljuk Turks of Anatolia defeated the forces of the People's Crusade] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} d'Iéna [1806] | Battle of Jena [1806] [in the two battles of Jena & Auerstedt, fought on the same day, Napoleon's army decisively defeated the Prussian Army under King Frederick William III] | |
| géogr. hist. mil. bataille {f} de Krasnoï [1812] [ou bataille de Krasnoje] | Battle of Krasnoi [1812] [also Battle of Krasny] [fought during the final stage of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. The Russians inflicted heavy losses on the remnants of the Grande Armee] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} de Marengo [1800] | Battle of Marengo [1800] [French forces under First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte defeated and drove the Austrian forces out of Italy, consolidating Napoleon's political position] | |
| hist. mil. bataille {f} de Rossbach [1757] | Battle of Rossbach [1757] [decisive battle in 7 Years' War in which the Frederick the Great's Prussian Army defeated a much larger combined French & Austrian Army] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {m} de Wagram [1809] | Battle of Wagram [1809] [military engagement which ended in costly but decisive victory for Napoleon's French army against the Austrian army, leading to the breakup of the 5th Coalition] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} de Waterloo [1815] [aussi : bataille de Mont-Saint-Jean ou Victoire de la Belle-Alliance] | Battle of Waterloo [1815] [Napoleon's French army was decisively defeated by the combined Anglo-Allied and Prussian armies, marking the final end of the Napoleonic Wars] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {m} de Zama [202 av. J.-C.] | Battle of Zama [202 BC] [Roman army heavily defeated Hannibal's Carthaginian army, ending the 2nd Punic War] | |
| math. stat. théorème {m} de Birkhoff-von Neumann | Birkhoff–von Neumann theorem [also: Birkhoff's theorem] | |
| obsèques {f.pl} en mer | burial at sea [sailor's funeral] | |
| géogr. hist. comté {m} de Hainaut [ou Hainau] | County of Hainaut [or Hainault] [territorial lordship in the medieval Holy Roman Empire, straddling today's border of Belgium and France; main towns Mons (BG) and Valenciennes (FR)] | |
| géogr. hist. comté {m} de Zélande | County of Zeeland [county of the Holy Roman Empire in the Low Countries, covering an area in the Scheldt and Meuse delta (roughly today's Dutch province of Zeeland)] | |
| cuis. rincette {f} [fam.] | drop of liqueur [mixed with the dregs in one's coffee cup] | |
| géogr. hist. duché {m} de Brabant | Duchy of Brabant [a State of the Holy Roman Empire established in 1183. Most of the duchy's former territories, are in today's Belgium except for the Dutch province of North Brabant] | |
| géogr. hist. duché {m} de Limbourg | Duchy of Limburg [an imperial estate of the Holy Roman Empire, mostly today's Liège Province of Belgium] | |
| math. indicatrice {f} d'Euler [aussi : indicateur d'Euler ou fonction phi d'Euler] | Euler's totient function [also: Euler's phi function] | |
| maîtresse {f} en titre | King's (official) mistress [in the case of Napoleon: Emperor's mistress] | |
| géogr. désert {m} de Syrie [situé dans le nord du désert d'Arabie et qui s'étend en Syrie, en Irak et en Jordanie] | North Arabian Desert | |
| effusion {f} {souvent pl.} [d'émotion(s)] | outburst of emotion | |
| effusion {f} {souvent pl.} [d'émotion(s)] | outburst of feeling | |
| géogr. hist. pol. pays {m} de Retz [territoire s'étendant dans le sud-ouest du département de la Loire-Atlantique] | Pays de Retz | |
| géogr. hist. pol. île {f} de San Domino [île italienne faisant partie de l'archipel des îles Tremiti] | San Domino Island [in the 1930's, Mussolini had political prisoners as well as hundreds of homosexuals deported to San Domino] | |
| hist. mil. pol. siège {m} de Compiègne [1430] | siege of Compiègne [1430] [Joan of Arc's final military action with her capture by the Burgundians. A minor siege but important event in the 100 Years' War] | |
| arts relig. L'Adoration {f} de l'Agneau mystique [aussi : Autel de Gand] | The Ghent Altarpiece [also: the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb] [a large 15C polyptych altarpiece in St Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent, begun in the mid-1420s and completed by 1432.] | |
| arch. géogr. tour {m} de Londres | Tower of London [also: His Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London] | |
| hist. mil. pol. traité {m} de Paris [1763] | Treaty of Paris [1763] [between kingdoms of Great Britain, France, Spain, & Portugal, after Great Britain and Prussia's victory over France and Spain in the Seven Years' War] | |
| hist. mil. pol. traité {m} de Paris [1814] | Treaty of Paris [1814] [ended the war between France and the Sixth Coalition, following Napoleon's abdication as Emperor] | |
| hist. pol. traité {m} de Schönbrunn [1809] [aussi : traité de Vienne] | Treaty of Schönbrunn [1809] [also: Peace of Schönbrunn or Treaty of Vienna] [after France's victory at Wagram, signed between France and Austria, ending the 5th Coalition] | |
| comm. internet télécom. télétravail {m} [de la maison] | working from home [connected to one's business computer] | |
4 Words: Others |
| Ses dents commencent à pousser. | He's cutting his teeth. [He's teething.] | |
| Cela en a l'air. | It looks like it. [idiom] [I think that's correct.] | |
| Ce n'est pas sorcier. [loc.] | It's not rocket science. [idiom] [It's not so difficult] | |
| C'est pas sorcier. [loc.] | That's not rocket science. [idiom] [It's not so difficult] | |
| Il s'agit de ... | We are talking about ... [idiom] [It's a question of ...] | |
4 Words: Verbs |
| hausser le niveau de jeu [loc.] | to (step) up one's game [coll.] [idiom] [improve one's strategy / performance] | |
| courir un (grand) danger [s'exposer à] | to be in (great) danger | |
| être inné en qn. | to be in sb.'s blood [in sb.'s nature] | |
| se comprendre [s'entendre] | to be on good terms | |