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that are staring at one another like statues
lit: earthenware dogs
- earthenware

qui se regardent en chiens de faïence
- de faïence
(pronounced fa-en)

The school once again comes under gunfire.
lit: suffers
- to suffer (to wipe)

L'école à nouveau essuie des tirs d'arme à feu.
- essuyer

He could avail himself of this right of passage.
- to avail oneself of

Il pouvait se prévaloir de ce droit de passage.
- se prévaloir de
me prévaux te prévaux se prévaut
nous prévalons vous prévalez se prévalent
je me suis prévalu

a period of familiarization
- the familiarization (not "la familiarisation")
alt: the accustoming

une période d'accoutumance
- (la) accoutumance

They can take on various forms.
- to take on

Ils peuvent revêtir des formes diverses.
- revêtir (trans) (conj like vêtir - to dress)
revêts/revêts/revêt
revêtons/revêtez/revêtent
j'ai revêtu

the chatter around the fact
- the chatter (not "le bavardage")
- to chat
Note: sometimes takes on a negative connotation, e.g., to badmouth someone

le placotage autour du fait
- le placotage (QC)
- placoter (QC)
Note: revêt parfois une connotation négative, p.e., médire de quelqu’un

The policemen set up a roadblock to catch a fugitive.
- the roadblock
(the dam)

Les policiers ont installé un barrage routier pour capturer un fugitif.
- le barrage [routier]
(le barrage)

The customer tried on some clothes behind a screen.
- the screen

Le client a essayé quelques vêtements derrière un paravent.
- le paravent

calamitous

calamiteux(se)

She has mixed feelings about the situation.
- the mixed feelings alt: the shared feelings

Elle a des sentiments partagés à propos de la situation.
- les sentiments partagés

Quebec is heading towards an electricity deficit.
- to head towards lit: to walk towards

Le Québec chemine vers un déficit d’électricité.
- cheminer vers

Her spouse has unpaid taxes.
Is she liable for his debts?
- unpaid
- liable (beholden)

Son conjoint a des impôts impayés.
Est-elle redevable de ses dettes ?
- impayé(e)
- redevable

the tax authorities

le fisc (le ministère du Revenu national et le ministère du Revenu du Québec)

My father always hums a cheery melody when he works.
- to hum (not "fredonner"), to sing
- the melody (not "la melodie")

Mon père chantonne toujours un air joyeux quand il travaille.
- chantonner (2)
- (le) air

She was jostled by the crowd.
- to jostle

Elle a été bousculé par la foule.
- bousculer

I don’t like to be rushed.
- to rush (to jostle)

Je n’aime pas qu’on me bouscule.
- bousculer

to shake up the established order
- to shake up (to jostle, to rush)

bousculer l’ordre établi
- bousculer

We are confined. lit: straightjacketed

On est carcané.
(du verbe "carcaner": enfermer dans un carcan)

Just as he was about to catch the ball, I tripped him.
- to trip (QC) (Fr) (not "faire trébucher")

Juste au moment où il s’apprêtait à attraper la balle, je lui ai donné une jambette.
- donner une jambette (QC), donner un croc-en-jambe (FR)

an ineluctable vicious circle
- ineluctable i.e., unable to be resisted or avoided

un cercle vicieux inéluctable
- inéluctable

The common wall between the two properties is made of stone.
- the common wall

Le mur mitoyen entre les deux propriétés est en pierre.
- le mur mitoyen

a solution lying somewhere between the two

une solution mitoyenne entre les deux

I've never seen that before.
- before, previously

Je n'ai jamais vu cela auparavant.
- auparavant

I screwed up my career because of one bad decision.
- to screw up

J'ai bousillé ma carrière à cause d'une seule mauvaise décision.
- bousiller ('y' sound)

The union is weighing its options.
- to weigh (advantages, disadvantages)

Le syndicat soupèse ses options.
- soupeser (avantages, inconvénients)

the momentary contact
- momentary
- momentarily

le contact momentané
- momentané(e)
- momentanément

We dredge up the classic expression: the crossroads.
- the crossroad

On ressort l'expression classique: la croisée des chemins.
- la croisée des chemins

The aim is the preservation of services.
lit: the line of sight

La ligne de mire est la préservation des services.

in the forward direction
in the backward/reverse direction

dans le sens avant
dans le sens inverse

while waiting for the cavalry
- the cavalry

en attendant la cavalerie
- la cavalerie

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