Voc arti pratique

quotes, quotation marks   She cited the passage in her essay using quotes (quotation marks).

bootlegging (to bootleg)   Increases in organized crime and bootlegging led to the repeal (l'abrogation) of Prohibition in 1933.

fail to understand  To me, the fact that it was not dealt with (cela n'a pas été géré) earlier is something that, to be quite honest, I simply fail to understand.

to deal with   I have to deal with some new case files at work.

bombastic  They must prove that Orbán's remarks were nothing more than bombastic nonsense.

boudaries  We respect boundaries and will not cross them, and expect the same from others. | We break boundaries (nous repoussons les limites).

setting boudaries  Women learn about setting boundaries in relation to cultural and family expectations  (cad mettre des limites, marquer son territoire).

shell, eggshell, scallop   This snail has a beautiful shell. | The soldier loaded the shell into the cannon (obus). | In the case of scallop (coquilles Saint-Jacques), catch rates (taux de capture) have been reduced by more than 90%.

to shell  I shelled a nut, then I ate it.

the fringe   My cat always plays with the fringe of the carpet. | The association helps people who live on the fringes of society. | The site is the unfocused fringe where your mind loses its bondaries.

to abscond  We decided again to abscond and distance from this danger. | One  might even say that the place has absconed or been lost.

ashes, cinders

Cinders have been collected around the shores (rivages) of the lake | Always dispose of ashes in a metal container with a tight fitting lid (un couvercle bien fermé).

to grasp

He grasped my arm. | The concepts were difficult to grasp.

to pervade

The same feeling pervade the rest of the book.

ellusive

Maps are very ellusive things.

claim, complaint

The customer service department handles claims.

reclamation, remediation

Earthwork: Land Reclamation as Sculpture | Ecologists are calling for the remediation of polluted areas | Reclamation of the former coal mine is now complete.

marble

A small bronze and marble statue is a small-scale replica of the Hellenistic statue from the Temple of Artemis.

bleach

After the delivery, the medical personnel asked the family to buy household bleach to clean up her blood.

to bleach (bleached, bleached)

The first step in making banknote paper is to bleach the cotton fibres with caustic soda and peroxide water.

the quarry

The quarry was a major source of marble.

the career

To make one's career in...

clay

A lump of clay | To have feet of clay | Modelling clay.

a lump

A lump of butter, a lump of sugar, a lump of clay.

to cast  This statue is cast in bronze

to mould (GB) to mold (US)  Spoon the mixture carfully into the mould (cuisine)

washing (technique)

wash drawing (lavis, dessin au lavis)

indian ink

The water was glassy and motionless, reflecting tint by tint of the Indian-ink sky above. (L’eau était vitreuse et immobile, reflétant chaque teinte du ciel à l’encre de Chine).

plaster  A plaster statue (a statue made of plaster). To have one's arm in plaster (plaster cast).

be suspicous (not trust, distrust)

I understand very well why fishers are suspicious about the prices offered by processors (= prix offerts par les transformateurs).

I distrust electoral promises.

be wary of,  beware of

Be wary of any offers you get over the phone, through the mail or online.

I would also argue that we must beware false prophets, like the nuclear industry, which claim to be the answer to this problem.

be careful

Fundraising events (= manifestation de bienfaisance) are usually good fun (= amusantes), but be careful that the cost of the event does not eat up (= engloutissent) all the profit.

you do not give a damn!

you don't give a shit! (slang)

a geneticist

Only a geneticist would be able to carry that out (= pourrait le faire).

do it youself (DIY), nég: patch up job (= rafistolage)

She likes doing DIY. (!)

DIY store.

In the long run (= à la longue) this will be much less expensive than patch up jobs.

plywood  There was therefore no market for Canadian plywood in Japan. | Molded plywood chair for home or school.

hollow  Seeing Donald Judd's 15 recent plywood sculptures reminded me of another critic’s having once called Judd’s work “anthropomorphic” because it was hollow.

a scrap   A scrap of paper.

They neded every scrap of help they could get.

There is no scrap of evidence (il n'y a pas l'ombre d'une preuve).

At the end, the whole project was scrapped.| However to sort out the scrap molecules scattered all over the land and at the bottom of the sea, would require such a long time that the entire low entropy of our environement would not suffice the nuberless generations of Maxwell's demons needed for completed the project.

a scrap dealer

some scrap metal