The Brothers Karamazov — Page 2
He lived for many years afterwards abroad, but was at that time quite a young man, and distinguished among the Miüsovs as a man of enlightened ideas and of European culture, who had been in the capitals and abroad.
Il vécut de nombreuses années à l'étranger par la suite, mais était à cette époque un homme encore très jeune, et distingué parmi les Miüsov comme un homme aux idées éclairées et à la culture européenne, qui avait séjourné dans les capitales et à l'étranger.
Towards the end of his life he became a Liberal of the type common in the forties and fifties.
Vers la fin de sa vie, il devint un Libéral du type commun dans les années quarante et cinquante.
In the course of his career he had come into contact with many of the most Liberal men of his epoch, both in Russia and abroad.
Au cours de sa carrière, il avait été en contact avec nombre des hommes les plus libéraux de son époque, tant en Russie qu'à l'étranger.
He had known Proudhon and Bakunin personally, and in his declining years was very fond of describing the three days of the Paris Revolution of February 1848, hinting that he himself had almost taken part in the fighting on the barricades.
Il avait connu Proudhon et Bakounine personnellement, et dans ses dernières années, il aimait beaucoup décrire les trois jours de la Révolution de Paris de février 1848, laissant entendre qu'il avait lui-même failli prendre part aux combats sur les barricades.
This was one of the most grateful recollections of his youth.
C'était l'un des souvenirs les plus chers de sa jeunesse.
He had an independent property of about a thousand souls, to reckon in the old style.
Il possédait en propre environ un millier d'âmes, pour compter à l'ancienne manière.
His splendid estate lay on the outskirts of our little town and bordered on the lands of our famous monastery, with which Pyotr Alexandrovitch began an endless lawsuit, almost as soon as he came into the estate, concerning the rights of fishing in the river or wood-cutting in the forest, I don't know exactly which.
Son splendide domaine se trouvait à la périphérie de notre petite ville et bordait les terres de notre célèbre monastère, avec lequel Piotr Alexandrovitch engagea un procès interminable, presque dès qu'il entra en possession du domaine, concernant les droits de pêche dans la rivière ou de coupe de bois dans la forêt, je ne sais plus exactement lequel.
He regarded it as his duty as a citizen and a man of culture to open an attack upon the "clericals.
Il considérait comme son devoir de citoyen et d'homme de culture d'engager une offensive contre les « cléricaux.
Vocabulary
- vécut
- vay-kü — Past tense of 'vivre'; he lived or dwelled.
- nombreuses
- nom-breuz — Feminine plural adjective meaning 'numerous' or 'many'.
- étranger
- ay-trɑ̃-zhay — Noun or adjective meaning 'foreigner' or 'abroad'.
- suite
- swit — Noun meaning 'continuation'; 'par la suite' means 'subsequently'.
- époque
- ay-pok — Noun meaning 'era', 'time', or 'period'.
- distingué
- dis-tɛ̃-gay — Adjective meaning 'distinguished', 'refined', or 'notable'.
- parmi
- par-mi — Preposition meaning 'among' or 'amongst'.
- éclairées
- ay-kleh-ray — Adjective meaning 'enlightened' or 'informed'; open-minded views.
- séjourné
- say-zhoor-nay — Past participle of 'séjourner'; stayed or sojourned somewhere.
- devint
- duh-vɛ̃ — Simple past of 'devenir'; became.
- Libéral
- li-bay-ral — Adjective or noun meaning 'Liberal'; politically progressive person.
- commun
- ko-mœ̃ — Adjective meaning 'common', 'ordinary', or 'shared'.
- cours
- koor — Noun meaning 'course'; 'au cours de' means 'during'.
- carrière
- ka-ryehr — Noun meaning 'career' or 'professional life'.
- libéraux
- li-bay-roh — Plural adjective or noun meaning 'liberals'; progressive-minded people.
- personnellement
- pehr-so-nel-mɑ̃ — Adverb meaning 'personally' or 'in person'.
- décrire
- day-kreer — Infinitive verb meaning 'to describe'.
- Révolution
- ray-vo-lü-syɔ̃ — Noun meaning 'revolution'; major political upheaval or uprising.
- laissant
- leh-sɑ̃ — Present participle of 'laisser'; leaving or implying something.
- entendre
- ɑ̃-tɑ̃dr — Infinitive meaning 'to hear' or 'to imply'; suggest indirectly.
- lui-même
- lwi-mem — Reflexive pronoun meaning 'himself'.
- failli
- fa-yi — Past participle of 'faillir'; nearly did or almost happened.
- part
- par — Noun meaning 'part' or 'share'; 'prendre part' means 'to participate'.
- combats
- kɔ̃-ba — Plural noun meaning 'fights', 'battles', or 'combats'.
- barricades
- ba-ri-kad — Plural noun meaning 'barricades'; street barriers during uprisings.
- souvenirs
- soov-neer — Plural noun meaning 'memories' or 'souvenirs'.
- chers
- shehr — Masculine plural adjective meaning 'dear' or 'cherished'.
- jeunesse
- zhœ-nes — Noun meaning 'youth' or 'young age'.
- possédait
- po-say-deh — Imperfect of 'posséder'; used to own or possess.
- propre
- propr — Adjective meaning 'own' or 'clean'; here meaning 'his own'.
- environ
- ɑ̃-vi-rɔ̃ — Adverb meaning 'approximately' or 'about'.
- millier
- mi-lyay — Noun meaning 'a thousand' or 'about a thousand'.
- âmes
- am — Plural noun meaning 'souls'; historically used to count serfs.
- ancienne
- ɑ̃-syen — Feminine adjective meaning 'old', 'former', or 'ancient'.
- manière
- ma-nyehr — Noun meaning 'manner', 'way', or 'style'.
- splendide
- splɑ̃-did — Adjective meaning 'splendid', 'magnificent', or 'glorious'.
- domaine
- do-men — Noun meaning 'estate', 'domain', or 'field'.
- périphérie
- pay-ri-fay-ri — Noun meaning 'outskirts', 'periphery', or 'edge of a place'.
- bordait
- bor-deh — Imperfect of 'border'; bordered or was adjacent to something.
- terres
- tehr — Plural noun meaning 'lands' or 'grounds'.
- célèbre
- say-lebr — Adjective meaning 'famous' or 'renowned'.
- monastère
- mo-nas-tehr — Noun meaning 'monastery'; religious community building.
- lequel
- luh-kel — Relative pronoun meaning 'which' or 'whom' (masculine).
- engagea
- ɑ̃-ga-zha — Simple past of 'engager'; initiated or entered into something.
- procès
- pro-seh — Noun meaning 'lawsuit', 'trial', or 'legal proceedings'.
- interminable
- ɛ̃-tehr-mi-nabl — Adjective meaning 'interminable', 'endless', or 'never-ending'.
- presque
- presk — Adverb meaning 'almost' or 'nearly'.
- dès
- deh — Preposition meaning 'as soon as' or 'from' a point in time.
- possession
- po-se-syɔ̃ — Noun meaning 'possession' or 'ownership' of property.
- concernant
- kɔ̃-sehr-nɑ̃ — Preposition meaning 'concerning', 'regarding', or 'about'.
- droits
- drwa — Plural noun meaning 'rights' or 'entitlements'.
- pêche
- pesh — Noun meaning 'fishing' or 'peach'; here refers to fishing rights.
- rivière
- ri-vyehr — Noun meaning 'river' or 'stream'.
- coupe
- koop — Noun meaning 'cutting' or 'felling'; right to cut timber.
- forêt
- fo-reh — Noun meaning 'forest'.
- exactement
- eg-zakt-mɑ̃ — Adverb meaning 'exactly' or 'precisely'.
- considérait
- kɔ̃-si-day-reh — Imperfect of 'considérer'; used to consider or regard something.
- devoir
- duh-vwar — Noun or verb meaning 'duty', 'obligation', or 'must'.
- citoyen
- si-twa-yɛ̃ — Noun meaning 'citizen'; member of a political community.
- engager
- ɑ̃-ga-zhay — Infinitive verb meaning 'to engage', 'to commit', or 'to launch'.
- offensive
- o-fɑ̃-siv — Noun meaning 'offensive' or 'attack'; aggressive campaign.
- cléricaux
- klay-ri-koh — Plural noun meaning 'clerics' or 'clericals'; pro-church people.
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