De Profundis: vocabulary (Liliade and Marina)

English words	Synonym	French translation	Word in context
An outcast	a person who has been rejected by society or a social group: a pariah, a black sheep	un marginal
PRISON :
A common prisoner		Un prisonnier ordinaire
Gaol	Jail, prison	La prison
Punishment		La punition, le châtiment
To be indicted for something	To be accused of sth	Etre accusé de qq chose	“[…] I was never indicted at all”
One thief à Two thieves		Un voleur
RELIGIOUS VOCABULARY :
Good and evil		Le bien et le mal
Supreme vice		Le vice suprême
Duty		Le devoir (moral)
Gods		Les dieux
Sin		Le péché
Judgement		Le jugement, le châtiment
THE ARTIST’S WORLD :
The artist		L’artiste
A beautiful work of art		Une belle oeuvre d’art
Beauty		La beauté
Sorrow	Affliction, grief	La peine, la tristesse
To suffer from something		Souffrir de qq chose
Folly à Follies	Absurdity, nonsense, indiscretion, madness	Une folie
To be conceited	Arrogant, self-important, narcissistic, smug, self-centered ...	Etre vaniteux	“[…] it helps one, or should help one […] not to be too conceited”
ROLE & INFLUENCE OF SOCIETY:
To be convicted of sth		Etre reconnu coupable	“There are many things of which I was convicted that I had done […]”
To help		Aider
wretched	Deplorable, lamentable, despicable …		“It is wretched that they have to do so[…]”
To creep	To move slowly with the body close to the ground, on hands and knees	Ramper	“[…] to creep into some hole and die.”
Wrong	Unfair, unjust	Injuste
To be ashamed of something		Avoir honte de quelque chose	“[…] one of the things I shall have to teach myself is not to be ashamed of it.”
Society		La société
To fail to do something		Echouer, ne pas parvenir à faire qq chose, négliger de faire qq chose.	‘’they failed to be ranked in the top ten.’’
Shallowness	Superficiality	Manque de profondeur
To abandon someone or something	To forsake	Abandonner	“[…] it abandons him […] when its highest duty toward him begins.”
Fortunate	Lucky	Chanceux	“You are more fortunate than I am”

Questions about The Suburbs: the New American Nightmare

The following questions about the extract from John Keats' essay should help you understand his argument:

• Draw a list of the negative terms that are used by the author to describe the suburbs.
• Why do Washington politicians encourage suburbanization ?
• Why can't suburbanites make real friends ?
• Can the suburbs be said to be children-friendly environments ? Why ?

                                                                                                                    (Johan, Maud, Timothée)

The Suburbs: vocabulary (Timothée, Maud, Johann)

Here is a list of vocabulary related to the issue discussed in John C. Keats' description of the suburbs as "the new American nightmare"

Words in English	French translation	Word in context
The edges of American cities	Les marges des villes américaines	''The slums we're building around the edges of American cities''
a neighborhood	un quartier
The folks next door	Les voisins les plus proches
housing developments	ensembles immobiliers	''We offer here for your inspection facts relative to today's housing developments''
to destroy	détruire, démolir	''They destroy etablished cities''
an area	une zone
city managers	les administrateurs municipaux	''These facts are well known to responsible city managers''
a contractor	un entrepreneur
a rural tract	une zone rurale
hurriedly	en hâte	''a shopping center and supermarket are hurriedly built''
material prosperity	prospérité matérielle	''That such prosperity is entirely material''
to socialize with someone	nouer des relations avec qqn, entretenir des relations sociales	''A man in a development has no need to socialize with the other men'' ''his socializing takes place in the city where he works''
services	des services	''They merely supply services to one another''
homogenous	homogène	''In a homogenous community,no one has anything to offer anyone else''
too-much-alike people	des gens trop semblables	''too-much-alike people have nothing to communicate to each other''
facilities	installations, équipements	''facilties for dances, sports''