Les Villes Vocab

Cesser = arrêter

To cease / To stop

Circuler

To move around / To circulate (like the cars on the old roads)

Détruire (pp: détruit)

To destroy (pp: destroyed)

Diriger

To direct / To control (referring to whether someone controls the Machine)

Échapper

To escape

Effacer

To erase (like the memory on the tapes)

Entendre

To hear

Être fier

To be proud

Fuir

To flee/run away

Interroger quelqu’un

To question/interrogate someone

Oublier

To forget

Parcourir

To travel across/ to roam through

Prendre soin de

To take care of

Rôder

To prowl

Se connaître

To know someone/a noun

So promener

To take a walk

Se ressembler

To look like one another/to resemble

Se tromper

To be mistaken/ To make a mistake

Souffler

To blow (like the wind or the Machine’s blast)

Souffrir

To suffer

Trembler

To tremble/to shake

Une bombe

A bomb

Un bruit

A noise

Des cendres

Ashes

Un cri/ des cris

A shout/ screams

Des dégâts

Damages

Un espion

a spy

Un étranger

a stranger/ a foreigner

Interdit/ Il est interdit de + l’infinitif verb

Forbidden/ It is forbidden to (verb)

L'indifférence

Indifference (M. Ferrier’s lack of concern for others)

Un ongle

A fingernail

Un pays

A country

Un pas/ des pas

A footstep/ footsteps

Une rafle

Sound of gunfire/ a burst

Des rubans

Tapes (magnetic data tapes used by the machine)

Un voisin/ Une voisine

A neighbor

Vierge

Blank (referring to erased data tapes)