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For each subscriber, enter the date of the agreement.
- the subscriber (the underwriter)
- the subscription
- to subscribe to

Pour chaque souscripteur, inscrire la date de l'entente.
- le souscripteur, la souscriptrice
- la souscription
- souscrire à

a must-see retrospective
- must-see

une rétrospective incontournable
- incontournable

This inescapable reality is the basis of our existence.
- inescapable (must-see)

Cette réalité incontournable est la base de notre existence.
- incontournable

You can easily attach it to your keyring.
(to attach, to hang (up))

Vous pouvez l'accrocher facilement sur votre porte-clé.
(accrocher)

Mars (March)
Martian

Mars
martien(ne)

They eventually sided on the side of the socialists.
- to side with

Ils se sont finalement rangés du côté des socialistes.
- se ranger de

the effects are being felt in Quebec

les effets se font sentir au Québec

A sailor saved me from drowning.
- the drowning

Un marin m'a sauvé de la noyade.
- la noyade

the monsoon

la mousson

God does not play dice with the universe. (Einstein)
- the dice

Dieu ne joue pas aux dés avec l'univers.
- le dé, les dés (the 's' is not pronounced)

there is a point that's bothering me
- to bother (not "déranger" "achaler (QC)" "tracasser")

il y'a un point qui me chicote
- chicoter

The position of ombudsman is not paired with coercive powers.
- paired with

Le poste de l'ombudsman n'est pas assorti de pouvoirs coercitifs.
- assorti(e) de

to curb inflation

mater l'inflation

to quell the revolt

mater la révolte

bald
the baldness

chauve
la calvitie

His name has been crossed off the list.
- to cross off

Son nom a été rayé de la liste.
- rayer

Jacob tumbled down the stairs.
- to tumble down (to show up, to storm in)

Jacob a déboulé les escaliers.
- débouler

He was the one on duty that night.

C'est lui qui était de garde cette nuit.

the horde

(la) horde

the speedometer

(le) indicateur de vitesse (not "le speedomètre")

a small studio with lots of windows

un petit studio abondamment fenestré

this defeats sounds the death knell
- the knell, the death knell

cette défaite sonne le glas
- le glas (2)

Your sad look turned out to be very effective.
- the look (the mine)

Votre triste mine s'est avérée très efficace.
- la mine

the time for things to settle down

le temps que les choses se placent

I felt like I was going around in circles and rambling.
- to ramble [on]

J'ai eu l'impression de tourner en rond et de radoter.
- radoter

the blaze
(the ember)

le brasier
(la braise)

I stowed the luggage on the roof of the car.
- to stow

J'ai arrimé les bagages au toit de la voiture.
- arrimer

in this personal account anchored to an extensive journalistic investigation
- to anchor (to stow)

dans ce récit personnel arrimé à une grande enquête journalistique
- arrimer

We can't cross this picket line.

On ne peut pas franchir ce piquet de grève.

the bruise
(not (le)hématome - the hematoma, the bruise)

(la) ecchymose
(pronounced: eki)

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