Sense and Sensibility — Page 7
The assistance he thought of, I dare say, was only such as might be reasonably expected of you; for instance, such as looking out for a comfortable small house for them, helping them to move their things, and sending them presents of fish and game, and so forth, whenever they are in season.
L'assistance à laquelle il pensait, j'ose dire, n'était que celle qu'on pouvait raisonnablement attendre de vous ; par exemple, comme de leur chercher une petite maison confortable, de les aider à déménager leurs affaires, et de leur envoyer des présents de poisson et de gibier, et ainsi de suite, chaque fois que la saison s'y prête.
I'll lay my life that he meant nothing farther; indeed, it would be very strange and unreasonable if he did.
Je mettrais ma vie en jeu qu'il n'entendait rien de plus ; en effet, ce serait très étrange et déraisonnable s'il en était ainsi.
Do but consider, my dear Mr. Dashwood, how excessively comfortable your mother-in-law and her daughters may live on the interest of seven thousand pounds, besides the thousand pounds belonging to each of the girls, which brings them in fifty pounds a year a-piece, and, of course, they will pay their mother for their board out of it.
Considérez seulement, mon cher Mr. Dashwood, à quel point votre belle-mère et ses filles peuvent vivre excessivement à l'aise avec les intérêts de sept mille livres, sans compter les mille livres appartenant à chacune des jeunes filles, ce qui leur rapporte cinquante livres par an chacune, et, bien entendu, elles paieront leur mère pour leur pension sur cette somme.
Altogether, they will have five hundred a-year amongst them, and what on earth can four women want for more than that?—They will live so cheap!
Au total, elles auront cinq cents livres par an entre elles, et que diable quatre femmes pourraient-elles vouloir de plus ?— Elles vivront si économiquement !
Their housekeeping will be nothing at all.
Leurs dépenses de ménage ne seront presque rien.
They will have no carriage, no horses, and hardly any servants; they will keep no company, and can have no expenses of any kind!
Elles n'auront ni voiture, ni chevaux, et à peine quelques domestiques ; elles ne recevront personne, et ne pourront avoir aucune dépense d'aucune sorte !
Only conceive how comfortable they will be!
Imaginez seulement comme elles seront à l'aise !
Five hundred a year! I am sure I cannot imagine how they will spend half of it; and as to your giving them more, it is quite absurd to think of it.
Cinq cents livres par an ! Je suis sûre que je ne peux pas imaginer comment elles en dépenseront la moitié ; et quant à leur en donner davantage, il est tout à fait absurde d'y penser.
They will be much more able to give _you_ something."
Elles seront bien plus en mesure de _vous_ donner quelque chose. »
"Upon my word," said Mr. Dashwood, "I believe you are perfectly right.
« Sur ma parole, » dit Mr. Dashwood, « je crois que vous avez parfaitement raison.
Vocabulary
- assistance
- as-sis-tans — Help or support provided to someone
- laquelle
- la-kel — Relative pronoun meaning 'which' (feminine)
- pensait
- pan-se — Imperfect tense of 'penser': was thinking
- ose
- oz — First-person singular of 'oser': dare
- dire
- deer — Infinitive verb meaning 'to say'
- était
- e-te — Imperfect form of 'être': was
- celle
- sel — Demonstrative pronoun meaning 'the one' (feminine)
- pouvait
- poo-ve — Imperfect of 'pouvoir': could, was able to
- raisonnablement
- re-zo-nab-le-man — Adverb meaning 'reasonably' or 'sensibly'
- attendre
- a-tan-dr — Infinitive meaning 'to wait for' or 'to expect'
- exemple
- eg-zam-pl — Noun meaning 'example' or 'instance'
- chercher
- sher-she — Infinitive meaning 'to look for' or 'to seek'
- maison
- me-zon — Noun meaning 'house' or 'home'
- confortable
- kon-for-tabl — Adjective meaning 'comfortable' or 'cozy'
- aider
- e-de — Infinitive meaning 'to help' or 'to assist'
- déménager
- de-me-na-zhe — Infinitive meaning 'to move house' or 'to relocate'
- affaires
- a-fer — Noun meaning 'belongings,' 'business,' or 'matters'
- envoyer
- an-vwa-ye — Infinitive meaning 'to send'
- présents
- pre-zan — Noun meaning 'gifts' or 'presents'
- poisson
- pwa-son — Noun meaning 'fish'
- gibier
- zhi-bye — Noun meaning 'game' (hunted animals for food)
- ainsi
- an-si — Adverb meaning 'thus,' 'so,' or 'in this way'
- suite
- süit — Noun meaning 'continuation'; de suite: 'in a row'
- chaque
- shak — Adjective meaning 'each' or 'every'
- fois
- fwa — Noun meaning 'time' or 'occasion'
- saison
- se-zon — Noun meaning 'season' of the year
- y
- i — Pronoun meaning 'there' or 'it' (indirect object)
- prête
- pret — Adjective or verb form meaning 'ready' or 'lends'
- mettrais
- me-tre — Conditional of 'mettre': I would put or place
- vie
- vi — Noun meaning 'life'
- jeu
- zhu — Noun meaning 'game,' 'play,' or 'stake'
- entendait
- an-tan-de — Imperfect of 'entendre': was hearing/understanding
- rien
- ryan — Pronoun meaning 'nothing'
- plus
- plü — Adverb meaning 'more' or in negation 'no more'
- effet
- e-fe — Noun meaning 'effect'; en effet: 'indeed'
- serait
- se-re — Conditional of 'être': would be
- étrange
- e-tranzh — Adjective meaning 'strange' or 'odd'
- déraisonnable
- de-re-zo-nabl — Adjective meaning 'unreasonable' or 'irrational'
- Considérez
- kon-si-de-re — Imperative of 'considérer': consider or think about
- seulement
- sul-man — Adverb meaning 'only' or 'just'
- cher
- sher — Adjective meaning 'dear' or 'expensive'
- quel
- kel — Interrogative adjective meaning 'what' or 'which'
- point
- pwan — Noun meaning 'point'; à quel point: 'how much'
- belle-mère
- bel-mer — Noun meaning 'mother-in-law' or 'stepmother'
- filles
- fi-y — Noun meaning 'daughters' or 'girls'
- peuvent
- puv — Third-person plural of 'pouvoir': can or are able
- vivre
- vee-vr — Infinitive meaning 'to live'
- excessivement
- ek-se-siv-man — Adverb meaning 'excessively' or 'extremely'
- aise
- ez — Noun meaning 'ease' or 'comfort'; à l'aise: comfortable
- intérêts
- an-te-re — Noun meaning 'interest' (financial) or 'interests'
- livres
- lee-vr — Noun meaning 'pounds' (currency) or 'books'
- sans
- san — Preposition meaning 'without'
- compter
- kon-te — Infinitive meaning 'to count' or 'to consider'
- appartenant
- a-par-te-nan — Present participle of 'appartenir': belonging to
- chacune
- sha-kün — Pronoun meaning 'each one' (feminine)
- jeunes
- zhun — Adjective or noun meaning 'young' or 'young people'
- rapporte
- ra-port — Third-person singular of 'rapporter': brings in/yields
- an
- an — Noun meaning 'year'
- bien
- byan — Adverb meaning 'well' or 'very'; bien entendu: of course
- entendu
- an-tan-dü — Past participle of 'entendre': heard/understood
- paieront
- pe-ron — Future tense of 'payer': will pay
- mère
- mer — Noun meaning 'mother'
- pension
- pan-syon — Noun meaning 'board and lodging' or 'pension'
- somme
- som — Noun meaning 'sum' or 'total amount'
- total
- to-tal — Noun or adjective meaning 'total' or 'overall'
- auront
- o-ron — Future tense of 'avoir': will have
- entre
- an-tr — Preposition meaning 'between' or 'among'
- diable
- dyabl — Noun meaning 'devil'; used in exclamations
- femmes
- fam — Noun meaning 'women' or 'wives'
- pourraient-elles
- poo-re-tel — Conditional of 'pouvoir' inverted: could they
- vouloir
- voo-lwar — Infinitive meaning 'to want' or 'to wish'
- vivront
- vi-vron — Future tense of 'vivre': will live
- si
- si — Conjunction meaning 'if' or adverb meaning 'so'
- économiquement
- e-ko-no-mik-man — Adverb meaning 'economically' or 'frugally'
- dépenses
- de-pans — Noun meaning 'expenses' or 'spending'
- ménage
- me-nazh — Noun meaning 'household' or 'housekeeping'
- seront
- se-ron — Future tense of 'être': will be
- presque
- presk — Adverb meaning 'almost' or 'nearly'
- ni
- ni — Conjunction meaning 'neither' or 'nor'
- voiture
- vwa-tür — Noun meaning 'car' or 'carriage'
- chevaux
- she-vo — Plural noun meaning 'horses'
- peine
- pen — Noun meaning 'trouble' or 'hardship'; à peine: barely
- quelques
- kel-ke — Adjective meaning 'a few' or 'some'
- domestiques
- do-mes-tik — Noun meaning 'servants' or adjective 'domestic'
- recevront
- res-e-vron — Future tense of 'recevoir': will receive
- personne
- per-son — Noun meaning 'person'; in negation: 'nobody'
- pourront
- poo-ron — Future tense of 'pouvoir': will be able to
- avoir
- a-vwar — Infinitive meaning 'to have'
- aucune
- o-kün — Negative adjective meaning 'no' or 'not any' (feminine)
- dépense
- de-pans — Noun meaning 'expense' or 'expenditure'
- sorte
- sort — Noun meaning 'sort,' 'kind,' or 'type'
- Imaginez
- i-ma-zhi-ne — Imperative of 'imaginer': imagine or picture
- sûre
- sür — Adjective meaning 'sure' or 'certain' (feminine)
- peux
- pu — First-person singular of 'pouvoir': I can
- imaginer
- i-ma-zhi-ne — Infinitive meaning 'to imagine' or 'to picture'
- comment
- ko-man — Adverb meaning 'how'
- dépenseront
- de-pans-ron — Future tense of 'dépenser': will spend
- moitié
- mwa-tye — Noun meaning 'half'
- quant
- kan — Used in 'quant à': as for, regarding
- donner
- do-ne — Infinitive meaning 'to give'
- davantage
- da-van-tazh — Adverb meaning 'more' or 'further'
- tout
- too — Adjective or adverb meaning 'all,' 'every,' or 'quite'
- fait
- fe — Noun meaning 'fact'; tout à fait: completely
- absurde
- ab-sürd — Adjective meaning 'absurd' or 'ridiculous'
- penser
- pan-se — Infinitive meaning 'to think'
- mesure
- me-zür — Noun meaning 'measure' or 'extent'
- quelque
- kel-ke — Adjective meaning 'some' or 'any'
- chose
- shoz — Noun meaning 'thing'
- parole
- pa-rol — Noun meaning 'word,' 'speech,' or 'promise'
- dit
- di — Past tense of 'dire': said
- crois
- krwa — First-person of 'croire': I believe or think
- parfaitement
- par-fet-man — Adverb meaning 'perfectly' or 'absolutely'
- raison
- re-zon — Noun meaning 'reason'; avoir raison: to be right
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