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Agrégation externe – Anglais Session 2002 Épreuve de traduction. Durée 6 heures VERSION A cat like a beadle goose-stepped with eerie convulsions out of the night cast by a cluster of statuary, from the recesses of the entrance hall. A maid with matchless decorum left a door silently, she removed a massive copper candlestick. She reintegrated the gloom that the cat had left. The cat returned, with the state of a sacred dependent, into the gloom. Discreet sounds continually rose 5 from the nether stair-head, a dark whisper of infernal presences. The antlers of the hall suggested that full-busted stags were embedded in its substance. A mighty canvas contained in its bronze shadows an equestrian ghost, who otherwise might have ruffled the empty majesty of the house with confusing posthumous activity. Should a visitor, from just within the entrance, have been able to proceed at right angles to his left, 10 overcoming septum after septum, hung as though with gigantic medals with the bulging gilt frames, he would have reached the gardener's tool-shed, and an arrangement of flagged steps —where the impeccable staff indulged in those trite exchanges, inseparable from the menial life, with the more alert of the tradesmen's messengers. There was a gap where the rhododendron hedge was just exceeded by the stalwart street-front balustrade —where between the bulbous stone the policeman 15 could be observed at his usual occupation known as ...

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Agrégation externe – Anglais

Session 2002

Épreuve de traduction.

Durée 6 heures

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A cat like a beadle goose-stepped with eerie convulsions out of the night cast by a cluster of statuary,

from the recesses of the entrance hall. A maid with matchless decorum left a door silently, she

removed a massive copper candlestick. She reintegrated the gloom that the cat had left.

The cat returned, with the state of a sacred dependent, into the gloom. Discreet sounds continually rose

from the nether stair-head, a dark whisper of infernal presences. The antlers of the hall suggested that

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full-busted stags were embedded in its substance. A mighty canvas contained in its bronze shadows an

equestrian ghost, who otherwise might have ruffled the empty majesty of the house with confusing

posthumous activity.

Should a visitor, from just within the entrance, have been able to proceed at right angles to his left,

overcoming septum after septum, hung as though with gigantic medals with the bulging gilt frames, he

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would have reached the gardener's tool-shed, and an arrangement of flagged steps —where the

impeccable staff indulged in those trite exchanges, inseparable from the menial life, with the more

alert of the tradesmen's messengers. There was a gap where the rhododendron hedge was just

exceeded by the stalwart street-front balustrade —where between the bulbous stone the policeman

could be observed at his usual occupation known as

Oh-dear-Mabel!

, which consists in a repeated

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readjustment of the stiff melton trouser-fork, by a simultaneous flexion of both legs.

In a room upstairs a dead domestic, sneezing behind his hand because of the chill he had received as

he entered the vast apartment, placed heavy chiselled blocks of coal within the well of a grate,

armoured with a transverse caging two inches thick.

A grey-haired lady's-maid stood with a monk-like reverence before the figure of her mistress. The

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veteran beauty awoke and the maid cast down her eyes. She then approached, armed for the carding of

her lady's hair.

Trapezoid in profile —an indoor model of the Maya Pyramid, the building for which that structure is

the blank pedestal represented by her savage head— Lady Fredigonde Follet received the combing at

first with immobility.

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Wyndham Lewis,

Apes of God

, 1930.