| A | B |
|---|
| lorsque | when |
| une forêt vierge | a virgin forest |
| une histoire vécue | a true story |
| avaler | to gulp or swallow |
| un fauve | a wild animal, also the name of a group of post-impressionist painters |
| un dessin | a drawing |
| une proie | a prey |
| mâcher | to chew or masticate |
| bouger | to move (from one spot to another, not to move from house to house) |
| réfléchir | to think (about), to reflect (on) |
| réussir | to be successful |
| réussir quelque chose | to do something successfully |
| la réussite | success |
| tracer | to indicate (a drawing, a route, a way of acting) |
| un chef-d'oeuvre | a masterpiece, chef-d'oeuvre |
| une grande personne | an adult |
| afin que + subjontif | in order to |
| conseiller | to advise |
| laisser de côté | to leave aside, to abandon |
| le calcul | arithmetic, calculations, calculus |
| ainsi | thus, in this way |
| une carrière | a profession |
| découragé(e) | discouraged |
| un insuccès | a lack of success |
| voler | to fly/ to steal |
| un aviateur | a pilot, an aviator |
| un voleur | a thief |
| servir | to serve/to be used for (e.g. an object) |
| du premier coup d'oeil | at first glance |
| s'égarer | to get lost/ to go on a tangent/to wander or stray/ to lose one's reason(ing) |
| des tas de | a lot of/heaps of |
| améliorer | to improve, to ameliorate |
| faire l'expérience de... | to experience something |
| se mettre à la portée de X | to come (down to X's level)/ within X's reach |
| une panne | a breakdown (machinery) |
| casser | to break |
| cassé(e) | broken |
| à peine | hardly (at all) |
| isolé(e) | isolated |
| un naufrage | a ship/plane wreck |
| un naufragé | a ship/plane wreck survivor |
| un radeau | a raft |
| le lever du jour | sunrise |
| une drôle de voix | a funny(odd) voice |
| une voix drôle | a funny (ha ha) voice |
| sauter | to jump |
| frapper | to hit, to knock |
| la foudre | thunder |
| frotter les yeux | to rub one's eyes |
| un petit bonhomme | a little tyke/a child |
| un bonhomme | a simple-minded man |
| considérer | to consider |
| bien sûr | of course/naturally/obviously |
| ravissant(e) | very pretty, ravishingly beautiful |
| l'étonnement | astonishment |
| impressionnant(e) | impressive |
| oser | to dare |
| la mauvaise humeur | bad mood |
| refaire | to redo |
| encombrant(e) | cumbersome, unwieldy/burdensome |
| un bélier | a ram |
| une corne | a horn (of an animal) |
| faute de + un nom | without (something) |
| avoir hâte (de) | to be impatient, (e.g. I can hardly wait for...) |
| se hâter | to hurry (like se dépêcher) |
| le démontage | the disassembly (of a motor/machine) |
| monter | to assemble (motor/machine) |
| griffonner | to scribble |
| lancer | to throw,hurl,fling/to fire or drop(arrow or bomb)/to exclame/to launch |
| une caisse | a case (large wooden box) |
| illuminer | to illuminate, to light up |
| l'herbe | the grass |
| pencher | to bend forward |
| faire la connaissance de | to meet someone for the first time |
| hâter | to hasten/hurry (something) |
