Ex 312- a strange request
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Message de here4u posté le 29-11-2025 à 23:05:49 (S | E | F)
Hello dears,
Voici un nouveau texte. Aborder un texte sans aucune connaissance préalable n'est jamais très
facile. Il faut capturer une atmosphère, deviner les circonstances, bien s'imprégner du texte,
essayer de le situer dans l'espace et le temps... et se lancer !
Translate into French:
Then I went outside. The air was cool and I drank it too fast, getting a little dizzy. I sat
with my hands on the steering wheel for a few minutes trying to think myself into the right
mood for driving all night across Oklahoma.
I jumped when she pecked on the windshield. It was the round woman in the blanket.
‘No thanks,’ I said. I thought she wanted to wash the windshield, but instead she went around
to the other side and opened the door. ‘You need a lift someplace?’ I asked her.
Her body, her face, and her eyes were all round. She was someone you could have drawn a picture
of by tracing around dimes and quarters and jar tops. She opened up the blanket and took out
something alive. It was a child. She wrapped her blanket around and around it until it became
a round bundle with a head. Then she set this bundle down on the seat of my car.
‘Take this baby,’ she said.
It wasn’t a baby, exactly. It was probably old enough to walk, though not so big that it couldn’t
be easily carried. Somewhere between a baby and a person.
‘Where do you want me to take it?’
She looked back at the bar, and then looked at me. ‘Just take it.’
I waited a minute, thinking that soon my mind would clear and I would understand what she was saying.
It didn’t. The child had the exact same round eyes. All four of those eyes were hanging there in the
darkness, hanging on me, waiting.
Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees.
Ce texte est un
et son corrigé sera en ligne le dimanche 14 décembre 2025.
Bon courage à tous. THE FORCE is with you...
Message de here4u posté le 29-11-2025 à 23:05:49 (S | E | F)
Hello dears,
Voici un nouveau texte. Aborder un texte sans aucune connaissance préalable n'est jamais très
facile. Il faut capturer une atmosphère, deviner les circonstances, bien s'imprégner du texte,
essayer de le situer dans l'espace et le temps... et se lancer !
Translate into French:
Then I went outside. The air was cool and I drank it too fast, getting a little dizzy. I sat
with my hands on the steering wheel for a few minutes trying to think myself into the right
mood for driving all night across Oklahoma.
I jumped when she pecked on the windshield. It was the round woman in the blanket.
‘No thanks,’ I said. I thought she wanted to wash the windshield, but instead she went around
to the other side and opened the door. ‘You need a lift someplace?’ I asked her.
Her body, her face, and her eyes were all round. She was someone you could have drawn a picture
of by tracing around dimes and quarters and jar tops. She opened up the blanket and took out
something alive. It was a child. She wrapped her blanket around and around it until it became
a round bundle with a head. Then she set this bundle down on the seat of my car.
‘Take this baby,’ she said.
It wasn’t a baby, exactly. It was probably old enough to walk, though not so big that it couldn’t
be easily carried. Somewhere between a baby and a person.
‘Where do you want me to take it?’
She looked back at the bar, and then looked at me. ‘Just take it.’
I waited a minute, thinking that soon my mind would clear and I would understand what she was saying.
It didn’t. The child had the exact same round eyes. All four of those eyes were hanging there in the
darkness, hanging on me, waiting.
Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees.
Ce texte est un
et son corrigé sera en ligne le dimanche 14 décembre 2025. Bon courage à tous. THE FORCE is with you...
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