'Don't scoff at reUgion,' she said.

«Ne riez pas de la religion, disait-elle.

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And she burst into a loud laugh, one of those derisive laughs a woman gives when she wishes to scoff at you.

Et elle eut un rire gras, un de ces rires méprisants de femme qui se moque.

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He, who could scoff so calmly at the threat of the African Railways scandal, lost his balance and felt his blood boiling directly there was any question of Silviane, the last, imperious passion of his sixtieth year.

Lui si calme, si goguenard devant la menace du scandale des Chemins de fer africains, perdait pied, le sang en tempête, dès qu’il s’agissait de cette fille, la passion dernière, impérieuse de ses soixante ans.

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Rougon then began to scoff at the parliamentary system, which he called ' the dunghill of mediocrity.'

Rougon plaisantait le régime parlementaire, qu'il appelait «le fumier des médiocrités».

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Miserable themselves, they scoff at the still more miserable.

Misérables, ils raillent plus misérables qu’eux.

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And while the old men drew back in alarm, the younger ones scoffed at the child's big head, which was plainly that of a monkey who had died from trying to swallow a gourd.

Et les jeunes blaguaient la grosse tête, un singe crevé d’avoir avalé une courge, évidemment; et les vieux, effarés, reculaient.

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"Don't worry, old duffer," scoffs Pepin, "but if you've got cold feet you can leave us to it."

– T’en fais pas, vieux panneau, raille Pépin. Mais si t’as les grelots, tu peux nous laisser tomber.

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Under fire

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The doctor was not wearing his usual cheerful and slightly scoffing expression.

Celui-ci n'avait pas sa bonne face souriante, légèrement railleuse.

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La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret

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The latter looked at him in silence, while two deep scoffing creases appeared on his heavy face near his under lip.

Celui-ci se taisait, en le regardant; sur sa grosse face, deux grands plis moqueurs coupaient les coins des lèvres.

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Son Excellence Eugene Rougon

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Poor fellow! how awful it is to have never known a moment of happiness and gaiety in one's life, to have devoted one's whole existence to the idea of liberty, and to see it scoffed at and expire with oneself!"

Ah ! le pauvre être sans joie, traqué toute sa vie, ayant donné sa vie entière à son idéal de liberté qui se démode, dont on plaisante, et qu’il voit crouler avec lui ! »

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Les Trois Villes - Paris

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"I know, I know," replied Camille, with the suffering yet scoffing air of a girl who is ignorant of nothing.

– Je sais, je sais, dit-elle, de son air souffrant et railleur de fille qui n’ignorait rien.

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Les Trois Villes - Paris

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The Three Cities - Paris

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"Well," he resumed in his ridiculously vain, scoffing way, "we are going to Paris too.

« Alors, reprit-il, avec sa goguenardise vaniteuse, nous aussi nous allons à Paris...

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Les Quatre Evangiles - Fecondite

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Fruitfulness

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From any other woman I should modestly have accepted my defeat; but, outraged at the glowing appearance of the heroine who had vowed to die for love, and who had scoffed at the woman who was really dead, I resolved to meet insolence with insolence.

De toute autre femme, j’aurais accepté modestement une défaite, mais outré de voir debout l’héroïne qui voulait mourir d’amour, et qui s’était moquée de la morte, je résolus d’opposer l’impertinence à l’impertinence.

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Le Lys dans la vallee

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This tall old buck, whose coat fitted so closely to his slim figure, was devoted to youth; he scoffed at the ' old ones,' went off with the young ladies, and laughed gaily in the snug little comers of the garden.

Ce grand vieillard, si droit dans sa redingote pincée à la taille, avait la passion de la jeunesse; il se moquait des «vieux», s'isolait avec les demoiselles de la bande, pouffait de rire dans les coins.

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La Conquete des Plassans

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The Conquest of Plassans

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