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The old lady liked to wear bright and colourful clothes.
- bright

La vieille dame aimait porter des habits vifs et colorés.
- vif/vive

The selling price of livestock depends on its live weight.
- live (bright)

Le prix de vente du bétail dépend de son poids vif.
- vif/vive

The worst case is that people return to work furious.
- furious (QC) (2) (not "en furie" "furieux")

La pire des affaires c'est que les gens retournent au travail en beau joual vert.
- en beau joual vert (plus poli que: "en tabarnak") (QC)

A cloudy sky diffuses sunlight.
- to diffuse i.e., to cause to spread
- diffuse i.e., spread out

Un ciel ennuagé diffuse la lumière du soleil.
- diffuser (trans)
- diffus(e)

The prime minister's speech was broadcast nationwide.
- to broadcast (to diffuse)

Le discours du premier ministre a été diffusé dans tous le pays.
- diffuser

the depression i.e., low spirits (not "la dépression")

la déprime

Her expertise makes her a sought-after speaker in the field.
- the speaker (not "(le) orateur (la) oratrice")
- sought-after, popular

Son expertise en fait une conférencière prisée dans le domaine.
- le conférencier, la conférencière
- prisé(e) (2)

I didn't see any reason for refusal.
- the motive, the reason

Je ne voyais aucun motif de refus.
- le motif (2)

I felt relief mixed with spite.
- the spite

J'ai ressenti un soulagement mêlé de dépit.
- le dépit

Those hostilities caused numerous casualties on both sides.
- on both sides (not "des deux côtés")

Ces hostilités ont causé de nombreuses victimes de part et d'autre.
- de part et d'autre
(heard: the 't' of "part" en liason avec "et")

You'll never come close to matching him.
lit: you'll never come up to his ankle

Tu lui arriveras jamais à la cheville.

The reporters were kept away from the building's interior.
- to keep away (to rule out)

Les journalistes ont été écartés de l'intérieur du bâtiment.
- écarter

I was dumbfounded and remained without any reaction.
- dumbfounded (not "medusé")
- to dumbfound

J'étais abasourdi et restais sans réaction.
- abasourdi(e)
- abasourdir

the blade of the hockey stick (QC)

la palette du batôn de hockey

two, three million, if not more
- if not, even

deux, trois millions, voire plus
- voire (2)

A bridge links the island to the mainland.
- to link
- the mainland (the continent)

Un pont relie l'île au continent.
- relier
- le continent

Some people relate money to happiness.
- to relate (to link)

Certaines personnes relient l'argent au bonheur.
- relier

to put lipstick on a pig
- the lipstick

mettre du rouge à lèvres sur un cochon
- le rouge à lèvres

the torpedo

la torpille

Don't stay up too late, it wears out your eyes.
- to stay up (to keep watch)
- to wear out

Ne veille pas trop tard, cela use les yeux.
- veiller
- user

Oh, shut up, you have no shame.
- to keep quiet
(to hold back)

Oh, tais toi, tu n'as pas honte.
- se taire
(taire: trans)

(context: a school class)
With such a heterogeneous group, slippages are guaranteed.
- heterogeneous (not "hétérogène"), motley
- the slippage, the skid

(le contexte: une classe d'école)
Avec un groupe aussi hétéroclite, les dérapages sont assurés.
- hétéroclite
- le derapage (2)

the speech therapist

(le) orthophoniste

Those who are struggling do not get the support wanted.
- to struggle (th/when preceded by "en")
(to pull, to rip off, to rip out, to wrest)

Ceux qui en arrachent n’obtiennent pas le soutien voulu.
- en arracher
(arracher)

We're getting to that time of year.
- the epoch, the period, the time

On arrive à cette époque de l'année.
- (la) époque

The bill is being patched up over time.
- to patch up
- the patching up

Le projet de loi est en train de se faire rafistoler à mesure.
- rafistoler (trans)
- le rafistolage

I had the choice of resigning or shutting up. alt: standing down
- to shut up (not "se taire"), to stand down (not "se retirer")

J’avais le choix entre démissionner et prendre mon trou. (QC)
- prendre son trou (2) (QC)

to prepare sketches
- the sketch

préparer des croquis
- le croquis

to hitchike (QC) (FR)

faire du pouce (QC), faire de l'auto-stop (FR)

a QC expression for: to take someone else's idea, extend it, even appropriate it
- to appropriate, e.g., to appropriate the idea
- to adapt

faire du pouce (sur): reprendre l’idée de quelqu’un d’autre, la prolonger, voire se l’approprier
- s'approprier, p.e., s'approprier l'idée
- approprier (trans)

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