Practice FrenchC1noun
l’engrenage
vicious spiral of linked events you cannot escape
Written with an elided article (l’engrenage) because the noun starts with a vowel sound, so the written gender is not visible here.
« Un premier mensonge, puis un autre : il est pris dans un engrenage. »
“One lie, then another: he is caught in a vicious spiral.”
In other languages
- Spanish espiral de hechos encadenados de la que no se sale
- Portuguese espiral de fatos encadeados da qual não se escapa
- Arabic دوامة من أحداث متسلسلة لا فكاك منها
- German Teufelskreis aus verketteten Ereignissen
- Italian spirale di eventi concatenati da cui non si esce
Related C1 words
l’élan · le tournant · l’aléa
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