Je reconnais la manière de sonner de presque tous mes patients. On dirait que leurs angoisses, leurs obsessions et leurs traumatismes d’enfance résonnent dans mon cabinet dès qu’ils appuient sur la sonnette, avant même de franchir le pas de la porte.
(It is one of the phrases that can be directly taken from English into French :)
“It sounds rather suspicious,” Zoe told her boyfriend when he came home with the idea. He had found an announcement of a lady suggesting an exchange of language practice conversations – French and English.
Nina y Rodrigo hablaban delante de mí. Yo los miraba en silencio, no recuerdo lo que decían, sólo mi creciente desesperación por no conseguir existir, de alguna manera, delante de aquella maravillosa criatura. Finalmente sus ojos dejaron a Rodrigo y se posaron en mí.
Jill was trembling as if she had just woken up from a bad dream. It looked like she was in the cellar after all but had somehow walked through a part of it without realising. The room she was now in showed no trace of the staircase or of the barred window. “I must be in a deeper part of the house’s foundations” she thought.
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The entrance hall was obscure and quiet. Jill walked in slowly and looked around. Judging by the smell of the house and by the state of its walls, it must have been abandoned for a while now. This came as a surprise to her as, from the outside, it had appeared to be in such a good state. She passed in this street everyday; how could the inside of this house have been left to such decay?
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