Saturday, February 23, 2013

TAKE YOUR TIME

Prenez votre temps
Sixteenth-century sundial, absent it's needle, at the famed Alsatian Musée Unterlinden in Colmar.

Patience et longueur de temps font plus que force ni que rage.

Moral of Jean de la Fontaine's fable, via Aesop, Le Lion et le Rat: patience and time can do more than strength and rage.

Vocabulary
s'enerver:  to get excited, to get worked up
agir:  to behave, to act
la force:  strength
une aiguille:  a needle

Expressions
dans le sens des aiguilles d'une montre:  clockwise
dans le sens inverse des aiguilles d'une montre:  counterclockwise

©2013 P.B. Lecron

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