surprendre

Et si toi, tu avais surpris tes parents ?
I mean, what if that had been you walking in on your parents.
Au sommet s’ouvrait un orifice circulaire par lequel j’avais surpris cette légère clarté, évidemment due au rayonnement diurne.
At its summit there gaped the circular opening through which I had detected that faint glimmer, obviously daylight.
Cela n’avait duré que jusqu’à un certain jour, quand je l’avais surpris à quatre pattes sur le sol, à tâtonner avec ses mains, mais avec sa tête maintenue en hauteur.
That lasted until one day, when I spied him squatting on the floor searching the ground with his hands, but with his head still raised up very high.
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