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| en fin d'année {adv} | at the end of the year | |
| astron. météo. au lever du soleil {adv} | at the rising of the sun | |
| à fleur d'eau {adv} | at the surface of the water | |
| au fil des années {adv} | during the course of the years | |
| par souci de vérité {adv} | for the sake of the truth | |
| au fil des années {adv} | in the course of the years | |
| géogr. à proximité du littoral {adv} | in the vicinity of the coast | |
| au fil des années {adv} | over the course of the years | |
| après-demain matin {adv} | the day after tomorrow in the morning | |
| avant-hier soir {adv} | the day before yesterday in the evening | |
| jusqu'au bout du monde {adv} | to the ends of the earth | |
| bien évaluer la situation | to acknowledge the signs of the times | |
| éduc. compléter selon le modèle | to do the exercise following the example | |
| courir les cocktails | to do the rounds of the cocktail parties | |
| faire mentir le proverbe | to give the lie to the proverb | |
| mal comprendre | to have the wrong end of the stick [idiom] | |
| gagner du temps | to kick the can down the road [idiom] | |
| méd. faire reculer la maladie | to reduce the incidence of the disease | |
| cuis. écrémer le lait | to skim off the cream from the milk | |
| éteindre la pièce | to turn the light off in the room | |
| anat. méd. douleurs {f.pl} lombaires | pain {sg} in the small of the back | |
| biol. ichtyo. zool. espèce {f} démersale | species living at the bottom of the sea | |
| la loi {f} du plus fort | the survival of the fittest | |
| sport Allez les Bleus ! | [shout of encouragement for the French national team] | |
| de la même façon {adv} [ou manière] | alike [in the same way] | |
| pharm. topique {adj} | topical [relating or applied directly to a part of the body] | |
| fin. capitaliser qc. | to capitalise sth. [Br.] [reckon the value of an asset] | |
| enrayer qc. [épidémie, développement] | to check sth. [halt the progress] [epidemic, development] | |
| gracier qn. | to reprieve sb. [Br.] [commute the sentence to a lesser punishment] | |
| faire couler qc. | to run sth. [tap, faucet, water in the tub] | |
| géogr. hist. Bénévent {f} [ville en Campanie, Italie] | Benevento [site of the ancient Beneventum] | |
| géogr. pol. Californie {f} [État des États-Unis] | California <CA, Calif.> [The Golden State] | |
| meub. ciel {m} de lit | canopy [hanging from the ceiling over a bed] | |
| arch. hist. sci. castellologie {f} | castellology [study of castle building, especially in the Middle Ages] | |
| armes hist. mil. couleuvrine {f} | culverin [light cannon with long bore introduced in the 15C] | |
| garçonne {f} [type d'idéal féminin] | flapper [young woman in the 1920s] | |
| géogr. Outre-Rhin {m} [Allemagne] | Germany [as viewed from France: over the Rhine] | |
| math. gogol {m} [dix puissance cent] | googol [ten to the power of a hundred] | |
| vêt. cordon {m} | lanyard [cord around the neck, usually for an ID badge] | |
| giron {m} | lap [fold of the body from waist to knees when sitting] | |
| géogr. Pays-Bas {m.pl} [royaume des Pays-Bas] | Netherlands [Kingdom of the Netherlands] | |
| la droite {f} [opposé à gauche] | the right [as opposed to the left] | |
| en nature {adv} [payer, régler] | in kind [idiom] [in the same way] | |
| déconner [fam.] [faire l'idiot] | to mess around [coll.] [play the fool] | |
| retarder qc. | to slow-walk sth. [idiom] [to delay the progress of sth.] | |
| meub. lits {m.pl} superposés | bunk bed [pair of beds, one above the other] | |
| aviat. occup. rampants {m.pl} | ground crew {sg} [staff servicing the aircraft at an airport] | |
| géogr. Vieux Rhin {m} | Old Rhine [cut-off section of the earlier Rhine] | |
| mandat-carte {m} | postal order [in the form of a post card] | |
| occup. mécontentement {m} parmi qc. [ouvriers] | resentment among sth. [e.g. the workers] | |