sexual liberation, birth control, free love, contraceptive devices,… la fête, les réjouissances = a spree > to go on a (shopping) spree échnagisme = mate-swapping une aventure sans lendemain = a one-night stand obsédé sexuel = sex-ridden people plénitude = fulfillment l’entrain = cheerfulness contentement, joie = delight > ravi, enchanté = delighted béatitude = bliss sérénité = serenity to like doing sth, to take pleasure in doing sth, to please sb (faire plaisir)… réconforter qqn = to cheer sb up la décence, la retenue, la politesse = decency le tact = tactfulness l’estime, la considération = consideration, regard complicité = mutual understanding une mutuelle = a friendly society une organisation caritative = a charity l’abnégation = self-denial la bienséance, décence, correctiton = propriety, morality, politeness,
decency
galanterie = gallantry fréquenter des gens = to socialize > la vie sociale = socializing complimenter = to pay compliments bien élevé, poli = well-mannered, well-behaved attentionné = considerate bien intentionné = well-meaning galant, courtois = gallant, gentlemanly. Also: gallant=courageux (=brave) liberté de réunion = freedom of assembly légalité = legality, lawfulness défendre la veuve et l’orphelin = to defend the weak exiger avec vigieur = to press for a demand respecter la loi = to abide the law (faire respecter = to enforce) un arbitre = arbitrator (politics), referee (sports) un compromis = a compromise une visite d’amitié = a goodwill mission
MORE WORDS OXFAM = Oxford Committee for Famine Relief, an international charity
created in England in 1942. Struggles against poverty and injustice. Now established in several countries in the world
The Shaftesbury Society = christian charity founded in 1844, by Earl
Shaftesbury. Like Emmaus in France, it defends the weak and disabled people (providing housing, eg). In 2007, its name became Livability
bosom friends = amis intimes (bosom = poitrine, coeur) puppy love / calf love = premier amour adolescent
head over heels in love with = éperdument amoureux de qu’on ne saurait avoir pour rien au monde = not to be had for love or money un(e) ex = an old flame
12 THE SELF AND OTHERS : CONFLICT
l’irritation, l’agacement = irritation le désagrément = inconvenience un fléau, désagrément = a nuisance froisser = to offend s’opposer à qqn = to oppose sb éprouver la patience de qqn = to try sb’s patience > éprouvant, difficile =
trying
se brouiller avec = to fall out with mécontent de = dissatisfied with coléreux = hot-tempered detestable, odieux = obnoxious rancune, ressentiment = resentment (to resent sth = s’offenser de qqch) la rigueur impitoyable = ruthlessness (ruthless = impitoyable) l’insensibilité = heartlessness bad, evil, wicked, mean, spiteful, cruel (to), unkind, pitiless moqueur = mocking (to mock at sb) malhonnêteté = dishonesty fausseté = mendacity (hypocrisy = insincerity) tromperie = deception (déception = disappointment) traitrise = treachery un faux-semblant = a pretence berner, duper = to fool sb dissimuler = to conceal, to hold back, to hide trompeur (apparence) = deceptive, delusory, misleading le mépris = contempt, scorn, despite, disrespect (méprisable = contemptible) suffisant = self-satisfied vantard = boastful, brash hautain = haughty, lordly, prideful, disdainful pour se venger de = in revenge for (se venger = to take revenge, vengeur =
vengeful)
convoiter = to covet, to long (un peu moins) (cupide = covetous, greedy,
avaricious)
user de représailles = to retaliate, to pay sb back (le lui faire payer) to get angry at/with sb(contre qqn), at/about sth mettre en colère = to madden, to infuriate exaspérer = to incense to discriminate against // to endure discrimination léser qqn = to wrong sb, to treat unjustly rejeter = to expel, to ban la barrière raciale = the colour bar