Sherlock Holmes

To enhance my english skill, I've started to read Sherlock Holmes Adventures ...

As predicted vocabulary's missing so here is the list of interesting words to add in my personal library ^^:

wickerwork : vannerie -> wicker = osier

to one's heart content : à coeur joie
at arm's lengh
to be in deep seas : to be in trouble

counterpane : courtepointe = dessus de lit
chest of drawers : commode

to scrawl : écrire de façon rapide
to unravel : dévoiler, démêler
to upset : renverser (sens premier)
standing on tiptoe
to toss = to throw
chips : petit morceau de bois -pencil exemple
pellet : petite boule d'une matière
a lecturer : maître de conf
tutor : professeur/ directeur d'étude
a scholarship : bourse d'étude
shrugged his shoulders : hausser les épaules
stationer : papeterie
quadrangle : cour carrée (dans les anciens bâtiments par exemple)

pane : vitre -> double pane window

"You see but you do not observe"
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead theories to suit facts."


Reat it aloud
Do not take it amiss


endeavouring : s'efforçant

the sound of houses hoofs <3