Lugubre
"de trous lugubres" p.17
Mournful, dismal, doleful
"some mournful holes" (about the boutique)
Le fauve
Fauve (adj)
Wild animal, big cat,
Tawny, feline
La tache
"des taches de clarté fauve" p.18
Stain
"stains of tawny light"(about the gas lamps)
Pourrir
"l'humidité pourrissaient" p.21
To rot
"the rotting humidity"
Écœurer
"l'affection attendrie de Madam Raquin l'écœura" p.28
To sicken
"the tender affection of Madam Raquin sickened her"
Hébété
Stupified, dazed
Tiède
Tepid
Chétive
"Elle fut soignée fut comme un enfant chétive" p.29
Sickly
"She was cared for like a sickly child"
Moribond
"Un enfant moribond" p.31
Dying
"A dying child"
Câlineries
"échapper aux câlineries qui lui donnaient des nausées" p.35
Coddling
"escape from the coddling which made her sick"
Oisive
Idle
La cupidité, L'avidité (f)
Greed
Maladives
"une toute petite femme, lente et maladive" p.48
Sickly
"a very small woman, slow and sickly"
Affaisser
"elle demeurait affaissée sur sa chaise" p.52
Sink, slump, collapse
"she remained collapsed in her chair"
La paresse, paresseux
"y trouver un métier de paresseux" p.60
Laziness / idleness, Lazy / idle
"to find there a measure of idleness"
Mat
Dull, matte
La pudeur
Modesty
Le délit
Crime
Affaisser, affaissée
Sunken, collapsed
Lourde
"d'allure un peu lourde" p.56
Heavy
"a slightly heavy allure" (describing Laurent)
Épaisse
"tout un corps d'une chair épaisse" p.56
Thick
"completely of a thick flesh" (describing Laurent)
Tareau
"son cou de tareau" p.57
Bovine, taurine
"his bovine neck" (describing Laurent)
Le malaise
Uneasiness, faintness
La privation
"il se sentait lâche devant les privations" p.60
Hardship
"he let go of [being a painter] before the idea of hardships"
La besogne
Hard work
Flâner "flânant le long des quais" p.65
To stroll - "strolling along the quais" (about Laurent)
Accablé (accabler)
Opressed / overwhelmed (to opress)
l'entrevue (f)
Meeting, liaison (Therese and Laurent's secret meetings)
Ondoyante - "La jeune femme, tordue et ondoyante" p.75
Temperamental, changible (About Thérèse)
Ivre
Drunk
La culpabilité
Guilt
La morsure
Bite mark
Gâté
Spoilt
La sauvagerie
Savagery
Le refoulement
Repression
Étouffant, étouffer
Suffocating, to suffocate
forçats
"ces deux forçats purent croire qu'ils étaient libres"
convicts, criminals
"these two criminals could think that they were free"
Bas (agj)
Base, dishonorable, low
Accabler
To overwhelm
Soupçon
Suspicion
Roide
Stiff
Cauchemar
Nightmare
Trace indélébile
Indelible trace (about Camille's bite mark)
un réveil
an awakening (of desire, of guilt)