Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Page 2
I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.
Je remis mes vieux haillons et retournai dans mon tonneau à sucre, et je me sentis libre et satisfait.
But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respectable.
Mais Tom Sawyer me retrouva et dit qu'il allait former une bande de voleurs, et que je pourrais en faire partie si je retournais chez la veuve et me conduisais convenablement.
So I went back.
Alors j'y retournai.
The widow she cried over me, and called me a poor lost lamb, and she called me a lot of other names, too, but she never meant no harm by it.
La veuve pleura sur moi, m'appela pauvre agneau perdu, et me donna encore beaucoup d'autres noms, mais elle ne voulait pas me faire de mal par là.
She put me in them new clothes again, and I couldn't do nothing but sweat and sweat, and feel all cramped up.
Elle me remit dans ces habits neufs, et je ne pouvais rien faire qu'transpirer et transpirer, et me sentir tout à l'étroit.
Well, then, the old thing commenced again.
Eh bien, alors, la même vieille histoire recommença.
The widow rung a bell for supper, and you had to come to time.
La veuve sonna la cloche pour le dîner, et il fallait venir à l'heure.
When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them,—that is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself.
Quand on arrivait à table, on ne pouvait pas se mettre tout de suite à manger, mais il fallait attendre que la veuve baisse la tête et marmonne un peu sur la nourriture, bien qu'il n'y eût vraiment rien à y redire — c'est-à-dire, rien, sauf que tout était cuit séparément.
In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.
Dans un baril de restes mélangés, c'est différent ; les choses se mélangent, les jus s'échangent en quelque sorte, et tout est meilleur.
Vocabulary
- remis
- ruh-mee — Put back on or replaced (past tense of remettre)
- vieux
- vyuh — Old, aged (masculine adjective)
- haillons
- ah-yohn — Rags, tattered old clothing worn by poor people
- retournai
- ruh-toor-nay — Returned, went back (simple past tense)
- tonneau
- toh-noh — Barrel, large wooden cask or container
- sucre
- soo-kruh — Sugar (common household food ingredient)
- sentis
- sahn-tee — Felt (simple past tense of sentir)
- libre
- lee-bruh — Free, unrestricted, at liberty
- satisfait
- sah-tees-fay — Satisfied, content, pleased with a situation
- retrouva
- ruh-troo-vah — Found again, tracked down someone (simple past)
- former
- fohr-may — To form, to create or establish a group
- bande
- bahnd — Band, gang, group of people together
- voleurs
- voh-luhr — Thieves, robbers, people who steal
- pourrais
- poo-ray — Could, would be able to (conditional of pouvoir)
- partie
- par-tee — Part, member, portion of a whole group
- retournais
- ruh-toor-nay — Were returning, went back (imperfect of retourner)
- chez
- shay — At someone's home or place (French preposition)
- veuve
- vuhv — Widow, a woman whose husband has died
- conduisais
- kohn-dwee-zay — Behaved, conducted oneself (imperfect of conduire)
- convenablement
- kohn-vuh-nah-bluh-mahn — Properly, suitably, in an acceptable manner
- pleura
- pluh-rah — Cried, wept tears (simple past of pleurer)
- appela
- ah-puh-lah — Called, named someone (simple past of appeler)
- pauvre
- pohvruh — Poor, unfortunate, pitiful (adjective of sympathy)
- agneau
- ah-nyoh — Lamb, young sheep (also used affectionately)
- perdu
- pair-doo — Lost, gone astray (past participle of perdre)
- donna
- doh-nah — Gave (simple past tense of donner)
- encore
- ahn-kohr — Again, still, yet, even more
- noms
- nohm — Names (plural noun, things people are called)
- voulait
- voo-lay — Wanted (imperfect tense of vouloir)
- mal
- mahl — Harm, ill, badly (noun or adverb)
- remit
- ruh-mee — Put back on, returned to (simple past of remettre)
- habits
- ah-bee — Clothes, garments, clothing worn on body
- neufs
- nuhf — New (plural masculine adjective, brand new)
- pouvais
- poo-vay — Could, was able to (imperfect of pouvoir)
- rien
- ryahn — Nothing, not anything (negative pronoun)
- transpirer
- trahns-pee-ray — To sweat, to perspire through the skin
- sentir
- sahn-teer — To feel, to smell, to sense something
- étroit
- ay-trwah — Narrow, tight, constricting (adjective)
- même
- mem — Same, even, itself (adjective or adverb)
- vieille
- vyay — Old (feminine form of vieux adjective)
- histoire
- ees-twahr — Story, history, affair, same old situation
- recommença
- ruh-koh-mahn-sah — Started again, began anew (simple past)
- sonna
- soh-nah — Rang, sounded a bell (simple past of sonner)
- cloche
- klohsh — Bell, a device that rings to signal time
- dîner
- dee-nay — Dinner, the main evening meal
- fallait
- fah-lay — Had to, was necessary (imperfect of falloir)
- heure
- uhr — Hour, time, on time (noun of time)
- arrivait
- ah-ree-vay — Arrived, reached (imperfect tense of arriver)
- pouvait
- poo-vay — Could, was able to (third person imperfect)
- mettre
- metruh — To put, to place, to set something
- suite
- sweet — Right away; sequence or continuation of something
- attendre
- ah-tahndruh — To wait, to wait for someone or something
- baisse
- bess — Lower, bow (imperative of baisser, to lower)
- tête
- tet — Head (part of the body above the neck)
- marmonne
- mar-mohn — Mumbles, mutters quietly under one's breath
- nourriture
- noo-ree-toor — Food, nourishment, sustenance eaten by people
- eût
- oo — Had (imperfect subjunctive of avoir, formal)
- vraiment
- vray-mahn — Really, truly, genuinely (common adverb)
- redire
- ruh-deer — To say again; n'avoir rien à redire: no objection
- est-à-dire
- ay-tah-deer — That is to say, namely (clarifying expression)
- sauf
- sohf — Except, unless, safe (preposition or adjective)
- cuit
- kwee — Cooked (past participle of cuire, to cook)
- séparément
- say-pah-ray-mahn — Separately, apart, in an individual manner
- baril
- bah-reel — Barrel, small cask for storing food or liquid
- restes
- rest — Leftovers, remains, food left after a meal
- mélangés
- may-lahn-zhay — Mixed together, blended (past participle of mélanger)
- différent
- dee-fay-rahn — Different, distinct, not the same thing
- mélangent
- may-lahnzh — Mix together, blend (third person plural present)
- jus
- zhoo — Juice, liquid produced by food or fruit
- échangent
- ay-shahnzh — Exchange, swap with each other (present tense)
- quelque
- kel-kuh — Some, a certain, a few (indefinite adjective)
- sorte
- sort — Sort, kind, type; en quelque sorte: in a way
- meilleur
- may-yuhr — Better, best (comparative adjective of bon)
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